Game crashing after 4/16 update - troubleshooting inside

Hi. I've been working with EA chat support and EAHelp on Twitter now for the last 24 hours trying to get my game issues solved. Ever since the update on 4/16, my game has been randomly crashing my entire PC, forcing it to restart without warning. This usually happens after I load into a lot to play or build, but once has happened to me during the Create-a-Sim when starting a brand new household on a fresh install. Between EA chat support & Twitter, I have tried tons of troubleshooting, only to be told they don't know how to help me and that I should post here so that other people who don't work for EA can try to solve my problem :/ So here I am.

Here are my desktop specs:
- Windows 10 Home 64bit

- Intel Core i5-8600K CPU

- 16GB of RAM

- Nvidia GTX 1060 GPU

Here are the troubleshooting steps I have tried:

- Removing ALL mods & cc. completely removed the mods folder and uninstalled my reshader mod.

- Updating my drivers, including my graphics driver, and removing old drivers I don't need anymore

- Windows Update (I had one that I hadn't done yet, it's done now)
- Repairing the game through the Origin launcher
- Completely uninstalling/reinstalling the entire game, including a time where a rep changed my account's region to India for some reason and then removed & readded the game to my account for me to reinstall again.

- Deleting the cache files & folder from My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4

- Cleaning my computer/registry with CCleaner
- Adding The Sims 4 & Origin both as exceptions to my anti-virus and firewall (which is just Windows Defender)

- Doing a clean boot with all services & startup services disabled
- Running as administrator or on a new administrator account, did both
- Resetting the game to factory settings without reinstalling
- Launching the game in Offline Mode

And this isn't really a troubleshooting step, but for further information this is the only game that does this. I've been playing Rainbow Six: Siege and modded Minecraft (using shaders, it takes like 7GB of RAM to run so no issue there). Also, this is happening even when I start a new game, or load an existing save.