Game Freeze in Combat

[SunDevil]

My computer has been freezing lately whenever I use tactical combat. If I use strategic it works fine. I was just wondering if this a range check error. Most common scenario is when my weapons are firing on a ship and the game freezes half way through my weapons. 7 PPb beams, and freezes after the third/or fourth beam. I know the patch might fix this, but is there anything else that I could do?