Stromson — Help Wanted

Hokay, so here I was tonight, playing FM like a happy little zombie, when all of a sudden this popped up on my screen:

I was a little befuddled, especially since this had never happened before. I shrugged it off as a weird error and relaunched the game. Two minutes later, I get that again, except this time I paid attention to what was happening. I’ve tested it several times now, and 9 times out of 10, when I click «Play Match» the game crashes out. I tested all three saves for my current story (the main save and the two backups) and they all three had this same error.

I’ve taken the typical troubleshooting steps (update drivers, check for conflicts, run a diagnostic, run a repair, and even a reinstall) but still have this sucker popping more often than it doesn’t. I loaded up a test save and played a few games there and it never crashed, but I don’t know if it’s just the error being weird or if the save file is legitimately corrupted. It isn’t 100% consistent either way, and I can occasionally sneak an error free game in on the Lido save, but only rarely (out of 15-16 tests I managed to play 2 games, both immediately following a crash).

Does anyone have any inkling as to what might be causing the problem? I’m wondering if it has something to do with the onboard graphics chip not handing things off to the video card properly. Supposedly this laptop has a «power saving» feature where the video card only kicks in when absolutely needed, and the integrated graphics run the show the rest of the time. Hopefully this is just something silly, and not an issue with the game or the save. Elsewhere, I was able to have WoW run for about two hours without any issues.

Any help would be much appreciated. Oh..and it’s a Dell XPS15.