i'm suffering from a bug in mesa, the open source opengl library that does 100% of graphics rendering on intel gpus on linux, all of valve's source-engine games suffer from consistent crashes when rendering certain things, with no solution other than to wait until Mesa 17.3.0 comes out and is released into ubuntu's repos so i can update to it, or try to manually install it, which i'm not going to do.
it's pretty sucky, but at least it's been fixed in master now so it's just a waiting game.

see more: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102226#c7