Computer crashes (long-term issue)

[MF Panda.5874]

I have been experiencing computer crashes for quite a while, but it has gotten worse with the "Warclaw" and "War Eternal" patches.

 

My computer crashes completely, sometimes blue screen, sometimes just complete restart, sometimes a sound loop, other times nothing. Occurs at random times during playing. I play mostly WvW and crashing does NOT happen only when engaged in fights with a lot of players on the screen. Many times I have been completely fine for a large-scale fight, but have crashed while at spawn or simply travelling somewhere on the map.

 

I have tried:

-repair

-reinstalling

-changing settings (its usually at the lowest, but I've even tried increasing the settings to see what happens)

-using my graphics driver frame limiter instead of the gw2 inbuilt one

-setting my fan settings to more sensitive

-using a program to show my fps while playing (bandicam)

-making sure I have nothing else running except aforementioned programs, even disabling voice comms

-updating/reverting graphics/audio/other drivers

-many many many other things

 

There have been times where my crashing has all but stopped, but the problem gets worse when patches are introduced. I was fine for a long while, but then the "mounts in WvW" patch came, and I started having my usual issues again. The past few days have gotten even worse, and I can't even get into the game for 30 seconds without a crash.

 

Also, I have no issues running programs that are much more graphically intense.

 

Computer:

Win 7

i7-4790K CPU 4.00 GHz

16.0 GB RAM

GeForce GTX 970

Recently re-installed on a 2TB Hybrid drive