Hi, Votraftur

Having done all of the above (again, in the case of reinstalling the game) except deleting my local files (as i'm not sure which ones are safe to delete/contain my settings) - I loaded in, walked around, and experienced another freeze.

I will note I made a very key mistake in my initial post - it's not the CPU that's maxing out, it's my memory. I'm unsure how much that changes, though. I'm not playing on steam, so that was not applicable. High priority, running as administrator, disabled optimizations, double checked it was using the right GPU, all of it, and it still happened.