LadyDarkSorrow Some of the errors in your dxdiag are crashes of the graphics driver, and some are what we see on certain high-end Intel processors that the motherboard may overclock by default. The graphics driver crashes can also be caused by an unstable overclock of the CPU or GPU, so if you've manually overclocked either one, please revert to stock settings.
If that's not the issue, look for a BIOS update for your motherboard. I can't see from your dxdiag which board you have, but when you find the model number, look up the Asus support page for it. Your current version is 1658.
If that doesn't help either, or you already have the newest BIOS, you can try disabling CPU Turbo Boost, which Asus sometimes calls something slightly different. It'll be in the BIOS under Advanced settings.
If that doesn't help either, 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
You're right that the newest Nvidia drivers have their issues; you can find older drivers here:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/
If you'd like to see what kind of crashes you're getting going forward, check the Reliability Monitor. Click Windows key-R and enter "perfmon /rel" without quotes, and you'll see a chart of errors and updates with a column for each day. Today is on the right.
Look for an error that happened at exactly the time of your most recent Sims 4 crash. If you find one, double-click it to see more details. If you don't see a new error, check back in an hour or so—the Reliability Monitor doesn't always update right away. Feel free to post what you find.
For reference, the LiveKernelEvent 141 errors in your dxdiag are a timeout of the video driver, and the Sims 4 crashes with faulting module python37_x64.dll are the overclocked CPU errors.