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Sorry here is the dxdiag. And what I mean is that when I play on a clean folder nothing I add back breaks the game. On a clean folder I can play it once and then maybe a few hours later the game starts crashing. So no matter what I add back the game will work for one session then break again. It's a really really weird bug.
@Minegamer612 Weird, but not unheard-of. This kind of problem can happen when there's something trying to sync the user folder, for example OneDrive, or when an antivirus program blocks the game's access to the Documents directory. So each possibility is worth testing.
First though, to be thorough, it's a good idea to uninstall and reinstall the 2015-2019 VC++ runtimes. While it doesn't sound like this is your issue from your description, all the errors in your dxdiag reference a component of the runtimes, so it's worth doing, and simple enough.
Click Windows key-i, select Apps, and scroll down to the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables. Click on the 2015 (or 2017, or 2015-2019) versions, both x86 and x64, and Uninstall. (Don't touch the versions from any other year.) Then download and install new versions directly from Microsoft:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads
You need both the x86 and x64 versions, but you can skip the ARM version, which is for a different class of device. Restart your computer before trying to play.
If this doesn't help, please make sure OneDrive isn't set to automatically sync the contents of Documents. And if you have a third-party antivirus, disable it when you play. As long as you don't run anything other than Origin and Sims 4, your computer should be safe.
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