Game Freezing since August 23 patch

I've been having an issue with the game freezing while animations are still going since the patch a couple of days ago.

The first time it happened was on the day of the patch. My household owns a retail lot which they live in. The retail business was open and my sim was also uncovering an artefact from a lump of mud (jungle adventures), one of the customers wanted to be checked out. The sims on the lot all stopped doing anything - except for idle animations - and I wasn't able to add or delete interactions from the queue. Speeding up time would skip ahead an hour or two and reverting time to normal put the clock back, again without any of the sims moving. I ended up recovering an earlier save from the same file and was able to continue.

It has just occured again in the same save file, with the same household, but not on the same day. Still on the retail lot, again with the business open but this time not while uncovering artefacts, just while talking to customers and again trying to check some customers out. I also noticed this time that in Build mode the sims will still carry on their idle animations. It's also worth adding that, since recovering the previous save to fix this issue the first time, I have been able to have the retail business open a few times without issue.

I have been using mods but since the first freeze they've been removed. Attached the dxdiag to this post, I'm not necessarily expecting a fix but I've seen a few people with the same issue since the patch and wanted to add what I could.