wave 1 - BAM 45 enemies, and im dead in 10 seconds, not even. why is this game running at super sonic speed?

Game crashes every time so I can't finish a single run. Can someone help me solving this problem?

Every 3 or 4 seconds the game freezes for maybe a quarter second or so. Anyone else getting this? Given how fast the game is it's making it pretty unplayable for me.

I played two matches with 109,000 and 143,000 points and the leaderboard only has my old record with 72,000 points

I started playing this game and very quickly got super into the gameplay and have been thoroughly enjoying trying to place high on the scoreboard. The only issue with me getting high up is the game seems to have an issue running after the Bishops spawn in. I've gotten to see them activate their attack, but can never get far into it before the game straight up crashes. Is anyone else having this issue, and if so is there a fix that's been found? I use a GTX 970 and Intel i7 that haven't had an issue like th...