Somewhere along the line, my ASIO sampling on the 18i8 got changed to 48k. When working on a 44k project I got the crash. It all started yesterday when I updated to M, after Win 10 updated the 2012 C++ runtime. The first thing I did was a quick rollback. It was my first one and it went so smooth I don't know what the hangup for some is. The runtime update was stuck in a loop until I ran a repair from the CTL PNL and rebooted. After that was fixed it still crashed, but took longer.
I was investigating(snoopin around for settings issues), and saw the ASIO panel was set to 48k. I switched it, and so far no crashes. I will be recording a bass line this AM so I'll report back with the results.....as I have no idea ATM if I have completely solved the issue.