Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII

[Soultpp]

I've been having problems with Crisis Core for a while now, not sure if it has something to do with the new version or not. All I can say about the problem is that as I'm playing the program randomly decides to crash. It is never the same thing that crashes it, though occasionally it will go into a crash loop mostly with exiting the menu. I will be just playing the game, like just now fighting trash to try to get some materia mastered. It doesn't make playing all that fun. And now all of a sudden it has started freezing the video when I enter into battles randomly! What is going on?

The settings I have running are as follows:
rendering mode:
Backend - Direct 3D9
Mode - Skip buffer effects (non-buffered)
Simulate Block Transfer Effects - on

framerate control:
Frameeskipping - Off
Auto Grameskip - Off
Prevent FPS from exceeding 60 - On
Alternative Speed - 0

features:
Postprocessing Shader - FXAA Antialiasing
Fullscreen - off
Stretch to display - off
Display layout editor - n/a
performance:
Rendering resolution - 5x psp
vsync - off
mipmapping - off
hardware transform - on
software skinning - off
vertex cache - on
lazy texture caching - off
retain cahnged textures - off
disable slower effects - off
spline/bezier curves quality - high

texture scaling:
upscale level - auto
upcale type - xBRZ
deposterize - off

texture filtering:
anisotropic filtering - 16x
Texture Filtering - auto
screen scaling filter - linear

hacks: (all hacks are turned off)

overlay information:
Show FPS Counter - speed
show debug statistics - off