Hard-Lock PC Freeze On Load Screens

This has happened twice now since I updated to 24h2 about 10 days ago. I know this was an issue in PoE2 with the 24h2 windows update, but it also appears to be an issues with PoE1.

The game will occasionally lock-up my computer when it initially loads PoE. I have been running PoE1 flawlessly on this computer until the recent windows update.