Long skirmish games with Illuminate cheating AI = CTD?

Whenever I include a Illuminate cheating AI in a skirmish game it will crash to desktop after about an hour. I play with multiple cheating AIs, no rush timer, no nukes and the AIs teamed together, so these could also have something to do with it.
I have had 2hr plus games with 7AIs some of them cheating with no problems as long as non of them are Illuminate. The initial rush the cheating AIs do when the rush timer expires is a lot of fun. No problems in campaign.
My PC never blue screens, it's running XP SP3 with a 8800 GTX and up to date DirectX and drivers. After SC2 crashes to desktop the PC is still fine.|||sc2 crashing i think is related to teh install section of the aeon but i can't be sure really if you ahve a good download speed you could try to delete all supcom 2 content on drive and reinstall it.
That might refresh all the drivers you ahve for it|||I'm having this problem as well. I hadn't really put it together until you mentioned Illuminates. I play skirmish alot with max AI opponents as cheating turtles on various maps, and I'll make it about 45 minutes into a game then suddenly CTD without warning. I just crashed out of a game a few minutes ago too and one of the opponents was indeed illuminates.
I had actually thought this problem was my video card (L4D2 crashes too) so I just changed it this morning from a GTX 260 to an ATI HD 5770 and still got the CTD. So it doesn't appear to be video card related.
I play the game through steam, and have tried the standard stuff over the past few days: reinstall game, drivers, etc. If we could find any help that'd be great. Love playing the game, though mass converters make the game too easy lol.|||Turns out the CTDs I've been having had more to do with the map Van Horne Core then the Illuminate AI.|||Hmm, I haven't had a map crash me yet, though once I stopped playing computer Illuminate I haven't had a CTD since. Been 10 or so games and no crashs thankfully. I did play as illuminate a few times though and that didn't CTD either. Something about cheating AI's as illuminates.
And I tried that rush timer lol, that is alot of fun when there's like 600 units trying to get your base on that initial attack.