How to stop the game from crashing after the screen that dose the cutscen

Installed the game tonight and after just a few hours, I have lost everything twice as the game just throws me back to steam... Anyone know what I can do to stop this please

I do not want to buy this at fully price since i do not have the money.

I do not want to spend hours in god mode terraforming land.

Just out of curiosity, why is the number of playing gamers always around 400. Who are these 400 players that keep on simcity'ing? Are they a secret society of some kind? Why don't they play other games or just move on? What would happen if simcity 4 stopped working? Peace....