(PC) Game freezes randomly after the latest patch

LadyAriancia​  That is a problem with OEM systems, although I would be surprised if this computer couldn't take a SATA SSD.  Regardless, if it's time to move on, it's time.

Feel free to ask for any help you might want in picking out a new computer, or just a second opinion on what you pick out.  I'm not assuming you do need help, just offering if you want to talk it over.

As I can't pinpoint what is broken, if it's actually a hardware or software issue and I run out of software solutions I can think of trying and this computer refuse to let me upgrade my C drive to a bigger ssd (because of the motherboard being "office quality, old and totally unknown" to the computer professional I asked to help me put in a bigger C drive), I feel like I have no choice than to buy a new computer. But now as I'm doing that anyway, I'm going all in and future proofing it as good as I can for the budget I have. 

I'm actually kind of sad giving up on this computer, it still able to play both sims 4 and ffxiv on maxed out graphics without noticeable lag, but I can't have these constant game crashes it's driving me insane. 

LadyAriancia​  I'm sorry to hear you had to give up on this computer, and I'm not sure it was required yet, but that is of course your choice.  If you need help once you have the new system, let me know.

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. 

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.

I already did a full reinstall from fabric settings of my computer 2 days after the new sims 4 update because I'm having a different directx crashing issue with ffxiv, that seem to happen every time my CPU reach 100% which I still haven't figured out why it does that. But I doubt reinstalling it all again will make any difference. As I at that point made sure to update my graphic drivers as much as possible and even updated bios.  If you say the issues are related I can't say you are wrong, but after the latest patch I don't seem to be the only one experiencing a lot of freezing which demand forced shutdowns to get out of. And beside ffxiv and sims 4 freezing up on me and crashing no other game on my computer or program have been doing the same. 

LadyAriancia​  Your dxdiag is full of crashes of the graphics driver.  While Sims 4 might be contributing to the issue, this kind of error should never happen at all.  So please do a clean uninstall and reinstall of the driver, as described here:

https://crinrict.com/blog/2019/02/clean-re-install-of-graphics-drivers-with-display-driver-uninstaller-ddu.html

paolaelectra​  If you'd like help with your issue, feel free to create a thread and post a dxdiag.

I created a new savefile after removing the sims 4 folder, forcing the game to create a new one, managed to play about 3 hours before the exact type of freeze happened again. This time while in live mode, while changing between the time speed-ups. When I checked the save folder the "scratch folder" wasn't deleted, after I forced closed the game. 

I am having the same issue. It has frozen twice in just the last hour. I close it via Task Manager.

I also don't use mods, have all expansions and packs and a few kits, my game is in English.

Here, hope it helps!