Time/Sim freezes while environment still moves

dr0pdeadappleb0y​  Do you ever play with the laptop running on battery only, or is it always plugged in?  I ask because your laptop's Nvidia graphics driver is new enough to be fine, but the AMD driver is from 2022, and the laptop might try to switch to the AMD GPU to preserve battery life.

At any rate, it's a good idea to update the driver.  You can use the newest one from AMD:

https://www.amd.com/en/support/downloads/drivers.html/processors/ryzen/ryzen-5000-series/amd-ryzen-5-5600h.html

Run the installer as an admin: right-click the download and select "Run as administrator."  Restart afterwards and before trying to play.

If you get more freezing in the new save, please look for new errors in the Reliability Monitor.  Click Windows key-R and enter "perfmon /rel" without quotes, and you'll see a chart of errors and updates with a column for each day.  Today is on the right.

Look for an error that happened at or around the time the game was freezing.  If you find one, double-click it to see more details, then copy that info and paste it into a reply here.  If you don't see a new error, check back in an hour or so—the Reliability Monitor doesn't always update right away.