No, I'm confident that it was my GPU in the process of dying that was the issue.
My new GPU is a Nvidia GTX 1660 Super, but as I said, I think my old 970 was just dying anyway.
Ok, I uploaded the .rar file in the upload.taleworlds.com and added my username and a link to this thread in the description box
I guess you can, haven't had crashes. If the same issue reappears I guess I can open a new thread and refer to this thread?
I did the Time Spy benchmark and the results said 'Great' with a score of 3240 out of a best of 4291 and an average of 3606. However, it doesn't give any information on PSU usage.
EVGA 500 Watts
Just the folders 'logs' and 'Shaders' Here is an imgur screencap of the folder and the view settings of it to show that there is no hidden folder there
Yes, so far it hasn't crashed without freezing the PC. I guess I could try let it crash and just leave it frozen on the offchance that it unfreezes and maybe then it would create the crash dump?
I get the impression that it crashes once it reaches a certain number of simulated events, so NPC army fighting another etc. Because if I play normally doing battles and such I can play longer than the 15 minutes it takes to crash just standing around with fast forward enabled.