[DRG]

Well my first thought was that the game has not changed at all in the "Started about two months ago" timeframe and that something has changed in your computer in some way.

How "occasional" is this?

The second thought was there have been a number of MS updates to my copy of win 10 and I have noticed personally more than once if I noticed my computer was acting strange it wasn't long after that I am informed there is a MS update to be installed

Odd that you cannot get win 11 because your machine surpasses requirements......... thats the first time I have heard that. Mine does not meet their minimum for win11 but it's about 10 years old and runs an Intel Core i3 2130 @ 3.40GHz and has the Intel HD Graphics built in