Okay - @puzzlezaddict, here's the deal.
I cleaned my fans, dug up a laptop cooling pad, and most importantly, manually increased my fan's power to max via Asus' built-in gaming center. Temps seem to clock in around 47-57°C now. Even with this improvement, the game still crashes, so here's another HWiN log.
1-5 Min: Wait
5-6 Min: Load to Main Menu
6-end: Load Town + Live mode.
So what I've noticed is I can cause the crash to happen much faster, almost in seconds if I just page through tabs quickly (Relationships, needs, etc.). Earlier, it seemed to trigger when panning over to load a lot/house. So I wonder if the sudden onrush of new stuff to load is somehow triggering the crash. Not sure what that would be indicative of though.
Anyway, here's the new HWiN log: https://mega.nz/#!7OxxTaaK!SdmA2QfELMTjY_5fzfBtmmiMUbEU-_QObsQK32YRFvs
@dentfaceah Sorry for the delay, but I wanted to get that second opinion, since this is venturing into territory I don't really know much about. You're right that your CPU and GPU temps are fine now, although there are still a couple of abnormal values in your second hwinfo log. (The second opinion is looking into it.)
In the meantime, I was also reminded that some of the errors in your dxdiags may indicate a GPU driver issue. So it's a good idea to do a clean uninstall and reinstall of the driver. First, download Display Driver Uninstaller from here:
https://www.wagnardsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1750
You can download a fresh driver (1070, notebook) here:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/147966/en-us
Next, take your computer completely offline—disable wifi and/or pull the ethernet cord—and double-click the DDU.exe. Take note of where the file will land, and click Extract. If it's easier, you can copy the path and then paste it into the address bar in a File Explorer window. Open the folder and then Display Driver Uninstaller.exe, and you'll get a message that you're not in Safe Mode. Click OK, then go to Options and enable Safe Mode dialog. Here's a screenshot of what your options should look like:
Close options, and the DDU, and then open the DDU.exe again. For launch options, choose "Safe Mode (Recommended)," and then click Reboot to Safe Mode (you'll need your password, so find it before rebooting). Once you login, you'll see this:
Choose GPU in the dropdown menu (step one), then Nvidia (step 2) if it's not already showing. Then click Clean and Restart (step 3).
Once your computer has rebooted, now back in normal mode, run the driver install .exe in custom mode. Select "perform a clean installation" and install ONLY the GPU driver and the PHYSX software. Reboot again and see how the game runs.
With how you described the crashes, I had to test for myself, and I could cycle through the info tabs without any problems. Of course, that doesn't mean anything, other than this probably isn't a game glitch. Anyway, I'll keep on this, and if the clean install of the driver doesn't help, we'll dive back into the hwinfo logs.
Also: Thanks again @holger1405 for the images, and the original instructions.
