Game unplayable now?

I've been playing since Day 1, and I've had the occasional crashes to desktop. 1-5 per full day of playing.
As of yesterday morning though, I've had 58 crashes. Sometimes the screen freezes and I have to close out the game, othertimes it crashes and I get an error about "unable to load texture".
Is this happening to others or is it something on my end?
Running Windows 11 on a $4k gaming computer. GPU: Geforce RTX 4080 Super

It isn't crashing when I load to new areas, most of them are after I've been in an area for a while. I've been playing with VSYNC disabled. I tried Direct X11, didn't help.

i freeze up when i go through portals and multithreading is on

I switched to Vulkan and haven't had any crashes since. I'm on a $4.1k gaming computer.

I've tried all three of the render settings, watched multiple videos and still to no avail. My FPS doesn't go above 50 regardless of all the videos i've watched; i've reinstalled the game various times and nothing changes. My specs are:

CPU- Ryzen 7 7700X
GPU- 4070 Super
Ram- 32GB of DDR5

please optimize the dx12 to be sustainable, i love your game and want to play it till my fingers no longer move.

Are you on Windows 11, and if so, did you manually (or your OS automatically) "upgrade" (downgrade) to patch 24H2? If so, roll that back...

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I've tried all three of the render settings,

What do you have your Shadow + GI Quality set to? Going from High to Ultra drops my FPS in half. Set it to High if you're having FPS issues. I have everything maxed at 3440x1440 except GI without any upscaling on a 3080 and have it locked at 60 fps without any issue (I lock at 60 so I don't have to listen to my GPU scream). If I change it to Ultra, I drop down to about 45fps.