Hi Kiwi, as matter of fact I had looked, quite extensively actually. All of the things I could find indicated the game crashing after a certain period of time, however this crash happens after different periods 10min-1hr or even longer.
You say it's a common problem but you don't actually know what the problem is, have you looked at the crash logs?
not everyone who uses forums is lazy you know...
Thanks pandishar, the CPU texture mod posted above seems to have made no difference, I'll try messing with these options. I'm kind of thinking to just switch to 64bit win7 as I have a 6gig system. I was on windows 10 64bit before but it kept hitting bluescreens due to unsupported hardware drivers