All energy saving features in windows are off and max power at all times. I also regularly check USB devices in device Manager to ensure that Windows is not allowed to turn any of them off to save power. Annoyingly Windows often reapplies this power saving to them after updates.
I’m far from knowledgable on this, but that’s what reading the web is for right and chatting with helpful folks like you! 
It does appear that if the you takes longer than next to zero time to do something, Windows treats it as if the you has crashed and restarts it? Apparently by adding this TdrDelay registry thing, we are asking Windows to give the GPL more time to do what it’s been asked to do, before considering it stalled?
At least that’s what I think I’m trying to do? I’m off to the Den now to see if it works…