I am currently running SK on my laptop, and I've come to terms with my game sometimes crashing. This isn't the issue. The problem arises after the game crashes, because I am unable to get the program to close once it is frozen. I can open a new instance, and continue playing, but the previous frozen instance stays in the background.
I've tried using task manager to close both the program and its origin processes, but that doesn't seem to work. I'm currently using Windows 7, and I've read that it has some issues forcing a program to end, but this seems to be the only program that I can't force-close. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Troubleshooting a hard hung process is tricky at best. I would suggest the shotgun approach, uninstall the game, uninstall Java, update your video drivers, reinstall java (JRE 6 or JRE7), then reinstall the game. If your using Steam, just reinstall the game since it includes its own java package.