Game crashes when entering a newly discovered map

Hey there, new player here, my game crashes upon entering a new map, usually happens to "dungeon/cave" type maps like temples, prisons, caves, temples, etc.

I made a reply to a forum post before this (Path of Exile Keeps Crashing On My High-End PC), so I hope this doesn't get tagged as SPAM. But this may be a different issue as the issue in that post is directly connected to high-end Intel CPUs, which I do not have.

The game runs smoothly though, almost too smoothly for my old setup, but every time when I enter a new map and spend about 2-5 minutes in there, the game suddenly freezes for 2-3 seconds and then proceeds to crash. This happens about 5 times before I can run the map without crashing. This wasn't a problem in the first act, but the second and third act are getting annoying with this. Also seems to happen in "cave" maps like catacombs, prisons, temples, etc more often than in the "outside" maps. Oh and I don't get any logs, it just crashes to Desktop and I have to click the Play button again...

I've tried DX11, which had the worst performance of all and is unplayable for me (low quality, low FPS, stutters, distorted resolution, ...), Vulkan which had the best performance but textures didn't load fast enough so most of the time it's a black screen or the enemies, effects, player and other models were invisible (this is also unplayable as you kind of need to see at least the enemies). DX12 runs smoothly but crashes as mentioned above.

As for additional settings that helped me a little bit was to launch the game in compability mode for Windows 8. This gives me at least a few more minutes in the game before crashing the same way.

I'm on the latest drivers for everything. Running just Steam in the background, everything else is off (Game Bar, Xbox Bar, and other bloatware).

This info is probably not relevant, but I've been playing other games for the few years just fine, this means that I can easily play these games at 144 FPS without crashing, stuttering or any other problems (CS:GO, League of Legends, and more).

In-game settings are as follows:
Mode | Windowed Fullscreen
Resolution | 1920x1080
Render Resolution | No Upscale
Renderer | DX12
Vsync | Off
Triple-Buffering | Enabled
Foreground FPS Cap | 144 (Got a double MSI display setup that can go up to 144 Hz)
Background FPS Cap | 30
Antialiasing Quality | Off
Upscale Mode | Bilinear
Sharpness | 25%
Lightning | Shadows
Shadow Quality | Low
Sun Shadow Quality | Low
Number of Lights | Low
Bloom | 25 %
Depth Of Field | Disabled
Water Detail Level | Low
Texture Quality | Medium (can not change this setting due to DX12)
Texture Filtering | Trilinear Filtering (this setting does not do anything for me, does not change it visually nor decreases/increases FPS, so I have it on this setting just to be sure)
Dynamic Culling | Disabled
Dynamic Resolution | Enabled
Target Framerate | 60
Engine Multithreading | Enabled
Channel Count | Low

PC setup:
Playing via Steam
Microsoft Windows 10 Professional (x64) Build 19045.4894 (22H2)
Display MSI G2412
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2 GB GDDR5 SDRAM
Intel Core i5-4570 @ 3.2 GHz
16 GB RAM DDR3-1333 (2x 8 GB RAM 666.7 MHz)
SATA SSD 480 GB, 6 Gb/s