STAR WARS™ Empire at War: Gold Pack

STAR WARS™ Empire at War: Gold Pack

EaWX: Thrawn's Revenge 3.4 (Updated April 2nd)
Kicks me to desktop, without closing game
I started playing on my first performance laptop, with more than enough power to handle the mod. Every 10 min or so it will kick me to desktop, but I can just click the icon and keep playing. This time it did that, and when I opened the game back up it was stuck on a white screen. Sounds still going, esc opens the menu, the cursor was still there, but otherwise white.
Had to do a hard shutdown.
Is it as simple as my ram isn't keeping up? Everything else about this computer is top notch but the ram is only 8gig, was planning on at least doubling it before I got into anymore intense games.