So update fixed the loading screen crashes without errors which I was getting. Now I've crashed equipping armor, clicking on techpriest, going to starmap and get an error saying game has crashed and that they've been notified. Now I HAVE to validate after each crash or I can't do any missions before I crash again. When I validate I get 580 files have to be reaquired and I have to download 5 GB again.  When the download is at 100% I get a disk read error on steam and have to fully remove the game and download again. Pretty much hit unplayable :( I verified my hard drive was fine with a smart test and I have several other games that seem to be fine installed on same drive.  Anyone else have experience with this?  Any ideas?

UPDATE:  managed to fix it.  Had to create a new steam repository on a seperate hard drive and no issues since.  Maybe just problems with my hard drive or something lingering in other repository causing issues