New instances of Unity problems?...

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I've notice over the last few days that the game is freezing up quite often and the only way to solve the problem is to restart it.
I'm a fairly long term STEAM player on my PC (WIN 11- 64bit/12th GEN INTEL Core i7) and this is actually the first time it had begun to do this regularly.
I didn't have this problem when UNITY first hit, it just started this week since the weekend.
There's no particular pattern to the freeze ups. It has happened on the game first opening after the credits, in the middle of a battle, while collecting game token winnings and while going through my character list.
Not sure if this something that's being seen across the board or if it's just something affecting me.