angsty_squid Thanks for the dxdiag. The lastcrash didn't attach (which is normal, the site flags some of the text as potentially harmful), but that's fine, it's mostly unusable by anyone outside of Maxis.
The Sims 4 crashes in your dxdiag are generic: the errors say the game crashed because it crashed, due to an access violation, which is too generic an error to be of any use on its own. But the fact that the game keeps crashing sooner and sooner makes me wonder if this might be a hardware issue. Does it help to wait ten or twenty minutes before trying to play again? Does it help to turn the computer off for five minutes before trying to play again?
The other errors in your dxdiag may or may not be relevant. There's one from the EA App that might mean nothing, and there's one from Asus software (e.g. GPU Tweak) that suggest you should shut down this software before trying to play, just in case. However, if you've overclocked any components, please revert to stock settings and test again. An overclock can be stable for a while before causing problems as the component degrades over time.
Your dxdiag also lists a couple crashes of the USB 3 driver. These are typically not serious and often cleared up by unplugging all USB 3 devices and restarting the computer, then reconnecting them. So please do that as well.
