Anything been done about random crashes? Just curious; haven't touched it in a while.

They still happen, depending on what I set the battle size to. They're not very frequent though - at worse every few hours maybe?

They have fixed a LOT of things since release though - not just crashes but many other bugs, both to sandbox as well as the storyline campaign.

Just recently conquered most of mainland Britain, about to head to Ireland but I might restart instead since it's getting a bit boring (this is after 2000+ days though - I was taking it slow!).

I remember positing sometime ago about the relatively large number of crashes and the game's tendency to "choke on itself" during large, long battles. Can't find the post now. Since then performance has improved significantly on my PC without hardware upgrades, so something must've been improved through a patch.

That said, the game still crashes occasionally - mostly when loading a save (the save isn't corrupted, thankfully - the game freezes on the main menu). I've also had a few instances of textures bugging out during large-scale combat. But not it's just "a few instances" rather than "at least once every ten hours of play". I still quick save a lot more than in any other game I play, just in case the occasional crash happens.

TL;DR: Performance and stability has improved, but not all issues have been resolved. I'd still say that you buy and play this "at your own risk".

I started it up, and the same old thing pops up: some kind of runtime error. Haven't investigated what that means. Maybe I should try a reinstall, 'cause I had it installed from quite a while ago.