Game Temporarily Freezing After 45 minutes to an Hour

Setup: RTX 5090, Ryzen 9800X3D, 32GB DDR5 Ram, Ethernet 1 Gig

After the 0.2 patch after a certain amount of time my game consistently locks up. I can still hear sound but I can't control anything, the cursor just does a blue pinwheel animation, then I see the grinding gears loading animation, and after a few seconds I can continue playing but all my map progress up until that point will have been lost. This makes playing the endgame such a risk because I risk wasting a map or losing a fight due to uncontrollable circumstances. I have tried running my GPU and CPU at stock settings with no difference. I've also tried updating my drivers, which only make the issue worse by adding visual artifacts when my game freezes. So for now, I've rolled my Nvidia driver back to Feb 28. I never encountered this issue before the recent patch. I've also rolled back all Windows Updates post 0.2 patch with no effect. All of this leads me to suspect the issue stems from POE2.

Same problem.