Game has become unplayably unstable with the 3.0 update. How can I remove a leaver penalty if I keep crashing out of matches?

Just before the update, things ran very smoothly when playing this game on my PC (minus the EA server shenanigans) which is not playing the game on VR. However, once the EA server issues were sorted out a while after the 3.0 update was released, I started to notice a very disturbing trend of crashing to desktop in the middle of matches, or even at the beginning of one. I was stuck with a leaver penalty before this started happening due to the EA server problems; now I think I might not be able to complete enough matches to remove it, since crashing to desktop can count as "intentionally leaving" a Dogfight match.

How often do I crash to desktop? To wit: I might be able to play through an entire session of Dogfight without crashing, but that's by no means guaranteed. Playing Fleet Battles without repeatedly crashing and then repeatedly rejoining a match is impossible for me. I would like to earn the Fleet-Battles-related challenges I got assigned, but I can't do that if I keep crashing. For some reason it happens most often after my starfighter is destroyed and usually a second or two after the Kill Cam finishes playing. My GPU reaches maximum usage during these crashes and then abruptly falls to nothing, but my CPU never gets that far. My memory usage is fine. Absolutely none of this kind of crashing happened before the 3.0 update.

I verified the integrity of the game's files, installed the latest Nvidia GeForce Experience drivers, and nothing seems to make a difference. I might have to put this game down for a while until these stability issues get addressed. Hopefully I will not have to wait until the 4.0 update drops for these issues to get fixed.

I hate to do this again, but I feel like I have no other alternative. Help me, /u/EA_Charlemagne , you're my only hope.