If even Blender 2.79 doesn't work properly this hints at the issue being somewhere with your OS, drivers or hardware. Could you please check if Blender wrote a crash log C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Local\Temp\[project name].crash.txt and attach it?

If the log file doesn't exist please open Blender's installation directory and double click on the blender_debug_gpu.cmd. This will start Blender in debug mode and create log files. Try to make Blender crash again. Once it crashes the Windows Explorer should open and show you up to two files, a debug log and the system information. Add them to your bug report by clicking on the upload button as shown in the screenshot below or via drag and drop. Please also upload the crash log located in C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Local\Temp\[project name].crash.txt (or simply type %TEMP% into the path bar of the Windows Explorer).