Everytime I update nvidia drivers the game crashes on launch ...

And it's absolutely related to Shader building.

If I log on one of my main toons with MTX and in a crowded location, the game will crash before I load in.

After updating the drivers I always need to log on either a new character, or someone in highgate or another lower-pop location, and then systematically go to different locations and let the shaders build up.

I've got a 4090, i9 13900KF, 64GB of fast ram and running from nvme ssd.

It's utterly insane there isn't some kind of throttling to shader deployment.