Ok, thanks for the insight. I was going to purchase a new laptop soon anyway, I will report back if I experience this on the new computer.

Yes, I do have the latest BIOS installed

Ok, it stopped crashing with those steps now when I'm trying to make a video.....

It crashed again when I'm writing this post and factorio is running in the background. New logs attached.

This time I copied pasted a factory, and set it down, the robots started building it. I tabbed out to write ...

Some more logs for the crash.

Upon some further testing, i was able to isolate the following reproducible steps:
1. Copy something big (i.e. copy a grid of iron smelters with more than 100 iron smelters or assemblers, with transport belts
2. Try to paste it somewhere you have vision, hold Ctrl ...

My save game crashes to desktop frequently. It is becoming more and more frequent as my base gets bigger.

The crashes happen around 5-15mins of playing, randomly as far as I can tell.

I do not think my base is unreasonably complex or big. Attached is the save game + crash logs. I will be attaching ...