Hard Freeze on death

Issue is still unresolved post latest patch.

Dying when fighting the rancor causes freezing when prompted to "respawn" after death. Forcing the game to shut (which is possible if you run in windowed fullscreen mode or use task manager to log out of windows 10) will then encounter issues with the game freezing on reloading the last save.

Lowering resolution and graphical settings doesn't help. Force shutting the game and restarting multiple times will cause an occasional SUCCESSFUL reload of game. Like 5 restarts of the game and then killing it before getting the game to reload properly: then die in 5 seconds to rancor because no opportunity to learn because game keeps freezing on respawn/reload. But then next death repeats issue with freezing and back to square one. You MIGHT get one successful respawn at random, but very uncommon, before this game reload issue reasserts itself and you have to restart 5 - 10 times to get ONE INSTANCE of the game working again (before you die and the cycle repeats).

I have tried closing the game down normally in rancor cave meditation point AFTER a successful reload of the game to see if that might break the pattern. It didn't. The game again kept freezing on restarting and reloading last save from rancor cave (even though game shut down properly via options menu).

Setting priority to real-time in task manager does not help. And yes, my Windows is fully updated as are my GPU drivers. I even ran verify file integrity on steam. No effect.

Game is completely broken as death is normal for boss fights. EA needs to fix game as this issue makes it broken and unplayable.