LadyAriancia The crashes I mentioned are timeouts of the video driver: the driver fails to respond in what Windows considers a timely fashion, so Windows kills the driver. That can easily cause a freeze or crash of any graphically-demanding application.
It's true that there are plenty of dxdiags with this kind of error at the moment, but it's not so high as to suggest that Sims 4 alone is causing the issue. If it were, there would be a lot more reports, and many of the crashing threads include dxdiags that don't have this or any related error. The fact is that a lot of players come back to try out a new expansion, or an event, so the volume of complaints would be higher even if the game were running as well as it usually does (not perfectly, but not extra broken).
Point is, this graphics driver crash is clear and shouldn't be happening, and it's not happening so often that I'd expect the game to be at fault.
What you can try instead is installing a slightly older driver, not the current one, to see whether it helps. You can get older drivers here:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/
Choose Game Ready Driver as the Download Type to go back further. The driver from mid-March should be fine, and if not, you can update from there without needing to use DDU again.
Thanks but I tried that too, I went back to the oldest drive update I could return to... one step at a time. Made no difference. But I'm getting myself a completely new computer, one that isn't 7 years old and I let you know if I still experience the issue when it's all up and running.
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