Hangup on loading screens

When attempting to load saves the loading screen stays up despite the sound indicating that the game is running. When I hit "Esc" the music stops and if I scroll the mouse around the sound for highlighting options is triggered even though I still can only see the loading screen. After the most recent Windows update the same issue started to occur when generating a new game. Added screenshots of my system specs. I tried turning off dual graphics support, multiple different resolution settings, full screen and windowed mode, and even connecting to a different display; as I'm sure it's something to do with my graphics card, software, or settings. Since the game keeps running I have to manually shut it down but no error log is created. Any thoughts, suggestions or fixes would be great.