I literally ran into the same issue this week. Hopped on to play some D2R for the first time this season... I'd recently upgraded my PC, was using 4 D2R clients before the upgrade...
Now on a better CPU, and more / faster RAM it is crashing constantly.
Found out that D2R doesn't like XMP. Google it.
I ran memory test, and they test out fine with XMP enabled, but D2R crashes with it enabled. Solid w/ it disabled.
Try it out, hope it helps.