Note also that they do relatively little (heh, any?..) compatibility testing; if you don't have a standard (off the shelf) system, or the hardware, expect poor performance, stability, etc. That's most obvious with graphics card issues, but may apply, in more subtle ways, to other things as well: CPU, memory, HDD, networking (when cloud or net drives are involved), etc. And maybe even some nonstandard configurations/versions of Windows, who knows.
So, besides using whatever up-to-date version you're using / licensed for; general usage, you know, save often, enable autosaves if you haven't, close and re-open every so often (daily or so is alright, may need sooner if you're pushing around a LOT of traces?), etc. Stuff like that.
Tim