My game keeps crashing since the patch

Arrrrhhgh this is driving me nuts. Now we're pack to the game crashing every few seconds, rather than minutes lol.

I give up, I think they need to do some serious emergency patching...

I am having problems as well since the patch/update. My game seems to pause and then crash randomly. Either on its own or when trying to interact with an objects like clicking on the fridge, clicking on the mailbox, clicking on TV sometimes the Sim itself becomes unclickable. Unable to identify anything that would cause the issue. The pause/crash isn't oblivious at first because you see the Sims standing there moving slightly, you can see them breathing, looking around occasionally. Car traffic is still passing by and the tree's moving etc., but the in-game clock/time (minutes/hours) is not progressing. I cant click on anything else and have to wait. It stays like this whether I click pause, game speed 1x, 2x, or 3x. Then a few moments later, it unfreezes after about 5-10 minutes and the menu for the first object i clicked on shows up. The very next time i click on another object the same thing happens. After about the 3rd attempt to click any object it freezes for a long time and then crashes with the following message:

The Sims 4 has stopped working
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.
Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available

I tried saving and then exiting, but that failed as well.

Troubleshooting performed and details:

Details:
Windows 10: Up-to-date
Dell Latitude 5500
All device drivers up-to-date
No mods
Scripts not allowed

Troubleshooting performed with no changes. Issue persists:
Closed out the game, started again
Restarted/rebooted my device
Uninstalled Sims 4 along with all expansion packs, deleted Sims 4 folder in Program Files (x86), then re-installed using Origin client
Tried playing after disabling my A/V (Bitdefender)
Tried playing after launched game in offline mode

Once again, the game was working fine before the update.
Any help would be appreciated.

I too have been having my Game crashing out of the blue after installing the new patch. Please fix this.

@bdmils @OceanbornAngel13 be sure to share your lastCrash.txt, config.log & dxdiag on the Answers HQ post:
https://twitter.com/SimGuruNick/status/1326687038649769985

The more data they have the faster they'll fix this! :)

I really hope they'll patch this before Snowy Escape launches.

Me too but I'm weary :( They don't have much time left, I think in Australia the pack might already be out by now (I'm too lazy to do the math lol but either way soon it's midnight there :D)

I had 2 crashes today, but none yesterday (played 2 simdays yesterday). I play offline, but now I wonder if I actually played online yesterday as I had just installed the patch... I'll gp for another try offline now, and after the next crash I will try one session online.

I really hope they'll issue a quick fix. My game has crashed about 4 times already today. Got back into game a minute ago after it crashed and it crashed again within 15 minutes.

It really kills my enjoyment of the game as going back and having to repeat what you've done just isn't fun.

I have the impression that the crashes are caused by sound failures. Some seconds before crashing to desktop the sound stutters or stops. I have lowered my sound quality to medium and will see if this makes a difference

I tried a session offline, and again a session online - game crashed both times, actually sooner when online, but that might be random.

No more gaming for me - thanks to patch... :(