Elden Ring Post SOTE Game Crashing - Any Ideas?

[BitsAndGlory]

Hello All, I feel like I've done 8 million "fixes" and troubleshooting tips in the last month, but my game is still crashing frequently on PC - even after the latest patch. Prior to the DLC, I logged about 150 hours on this rig with no issues whatsoever.

I want it to be known that I do have an i9 that's possibly affected by the degradation issue that's been reported recently. So it's entirely possible that's the issue. However, as mentioned, prior to the DLC I had no issues AT ALL with Elden Ring. And other than Elden Ring, I have had no app crashes, game crashes or BSODs. So who knows.

Here's the event log that pops up when my game crashes:

Faulting application name: eldenring.exe, version: 2.3.0.0, time stamp: 0x6697da84
Faulting module name: eldenring.exe, version: 2.3.0.0, time stamp: 0x6697da84
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000236159
Faulting process id: 0x0x536C
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DAE2783775D48B
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ELDEN RING\Game\eldenring.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ELDEN RING\Game\eldenring.exe
Report Id: b8a38297-8114-430b-9a2f-8b005e5643d2
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

If anybody has any insight, I'm all ears. It's been incredibly frustrating to say the least. The game used to run smooth like butter and never crashed once. Now since the DLC patches/updates, it's pretty frequent.

EDIT:

Here are my specs:

Windows 11 Home 64-Bit
Intel 13th Gen i9-13900KF
32GB of RAM
PRO Z790-P WIFI (MSI MOBO)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti (MSI)
2TB SSD

I've tried reinstalling the game
Verifying the game files
Lowering graphical settings
Undervolting on the BIOS
Other BIOS fixes that lower CPU temps
Raising fan speeds to help with any heat issues
Using a launcher that skirts around anti-cheat, since that's been tied to some performance issues
I've tried rolling back NVIDIA graphics drivers
I've tried the newest NVIDIA graphics drivers