Game Crashing on certain maps

This is an issue that has only shown since the latest patch. Before this patch, the game has crashed to desktop maybe 2 or 3 times for over 150 hours of playtime. While running maps for the past few days, Ive noticed (to my overwhelming frustration) that the game will either crash on loading screen into certain maps or totally freeze a few hundred units into maps and crash to desktop for both scenarios. Although I am running a X3D cpu, this issue seems different then whats described in those threads. When I load back into the game, a portals are remaining but entering them yields the same results.

Currently I am unable to run 8 maps. I have tried to load instances of these maps multiple times but the results are the same.
Crash at Loading Screen:
-Sandspit
-Bluff
-Steppe
-Seepage
-Savannah
-Decay

Crash in Map after a few hundred units:
-Crimson Shores
-Vaal Foundry

Finally made the post after getting frustrated that these maps are blocking multiple routes to 4 different citadels and the overwhelming number of towers im running into are Bluff...