Computer freezes on transition between Surface and Caves

Hi. Naturally, I've been messing around with stuff since I posted this, and I've found something a bit more concrete/weird.

Since I'm a more advanced Windows user, I have a few things enabled or set up that might cause issues.

First off, I tested if the AppHangTransient issue has typical fixes. Some people state that it's usually a paging file issue, so I decided to do a Disk Cleanup and updated my paging file settings to be manual and pretty big. I then performed the test described above while checking up on the paging file resource utilization. After an in-game day and a half of going up and down, I caused it to crash my computer. Probably a good thing to do, but not the direct cause of this issue.

Next, I tested removing the Virtualization and WSL features from Windows. Windows' WSL and Virtualization issues have been kinda hit or miss for me, after all. After doing that and updating my computer with the most recent patches (there was a very recent patch for some drivers and a recent windows patch), I re-ran the test. However, instead of crashing my computer, I got the game to get into an infinite loading loop, I think. (see attached image) Hitting Cancel brings me back to the main menu. The game seemed to save "correctly", too. Haven't been able to replicate this after in-game days of testing, but still wanted to post.

Posting this for completeness' sake just in case someone has a similar situation; this might help.

Nope. Still crashes, just very sporadically. That infinite loading loop is just something different, I presume.

Amusingly enough, doing the aforementioned stuff gave me hope that it was fixed because I spent hours actually doing that test over and over, and it didn't happen. However, I decided to try a world normally, and it happened within the first 15 days of normal play.