After Effects + Video Copilot Saber Crashes

hello!

I'm running into continuous full pc crashes when rendering out a video in After Effects using Video Copilot's Saber for additional VFX on text and the outline.

All versions of software and plugins up to date.

After Effects Ver. 18.2.1

Video Copilot Saber 1.0.39

PC Specs : 64 GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 2080 Super 8GB VRAM

EVGA 850W Power Supply 

the freeze only happens during renders, video previews in the project are fine. It's frozen everytime I've attempted a render using both QuickTime and AVI format. This has happened on a previous project where I eventually gave up on using saber because of the crashes, so it isn't the project file itself. It seems to happen when more than one instance of saber is used at once potentially, but some crashes occur before the second instance even starts 5 seconds into the render.

I'd be happy to share any AE Preferences or screenshots of anything in specific if that assists anyone's knowledge of the situation as well.

hoping it's not a hardware problem as it only occurs when using the Saber Plug-in. 

any help or suggestions are much appreciated! 

thanks in advance ❤️