I just bought this game (bit late to the party I know). Posted this in the save issues thread too:
However it has crashed on me twice during the first mission and both times I have to restart at the beginning because the game doesn't save until about an hour in according to this thread. What am I supposed to do in order to actually play this game? If it auto saved at a checkpoint I could just play on after a crash, but this doesn't appear to be an option.
Please check to make sure your PC meets minimum requirements to run the game here.
If it does and your game continues to crash please send your dxdiag to support using the website link in my signature and we'll see what we can do to help.
Sorry you're having trouble!