Then we have the frozen screen or black screen. This is not a game bug.
Had black screen issue with 3 separate locations in the game in this version, along with a bug in the Janice/Danielle night at the pool scene (could do literally nothing except rotate the camera).
The issue itself did not start until after being told by Danielle about the short hair trimmers.
Going to places where Janice was, lead to black screen.
All issues solved with one change to one save using the Save Editor. Janice's tan lines.
When I changed them back to their default states, no more black screen issue, and no more bug in the Janice/Danielle scene.
I even experimented with changing her bikini, since she got a new one in this update, and that didn't help. Only changing the tan lines did.
So yes, it was (in this instance for definite) absolutely a bug and not a hardware issue.
I also had a black screen issue in the previous version, through all three releases from Beta 1 to final. It did not repeat in this version, so again, it was a bug.
Not everyone gets the same bugs at the same time/point in the game, or at all, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist, or that they're not bugs.
( I have also seen this problem when I went too far with the save editor, and destroyed the progression of the game.)
An issue with variables (like when messing around using the save editor/regedit) is not the same as a hardware issue.
When that issue isn't caused by user error, especially when it's only happening under particular circumstances, then it absolutely is not a hardware issue.