You should provide your operating system details and system hardware (cpu + gpu) information to help people help you.
Version 17 requires a CPU with minimum SSE 4.2 instruction set and will not run without it. Many AMD cpus before Zen will not work, as well as some older intel cpus.
1. Do you have a sound card or specific audio drivers / softwares ? Because it was my case months ago, when I was dealing with a lot of crashs, and everything was related to my asus xonar drivers ( its a specific driver used by most of the sounds card ) ( you can find old topics about it )
2. Are you using windows 10 ? I got some problems with an update month ago with a “ransomware protection”.