Game freezes system on loading screen — extensive troubleshooting already done

Hi,

I'm experiencing a freeze on the loading screen that also causes my entire PC to hard-freeze for ~10 seconds when force-closing the game via Task Manager.

System specs:

• Laptop: MACHENIKE S15C
• CPU: Intel Alder Lake-P (12th gen)
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti (hybrid graphics with Intel Iris Xe)
• OS: Windows 11

Troubleshooting already attempted (none resolved the issue):

• Disabled all overlays (Steam, Discord, GeForce)
• Changed in-game language
• Disabled pre-order pack
• Changed default audio output device
• Fully uninstalled and reinstalled the game
• Manually ran Uninstall_BattlEye.bat as admin and let it reinstall
• Verified game file integrity multiple times
• Checked Hardware-enforced Stack Protection setting (not present/not applicable on this device)
• Booted in Clean Boot (all third-party services and startup items disabled) — issue persisted
• Manually forced the game to use the dedicated NVIDIA GPU instead of Intel integrated graphics
• Fully removed and reinstalled the NVIDIA GPU driver (both old and new driver versions — same result on both)

Given that the issue persists even in a clean boot environment and across two different GPU driver versions, it doesn't seem to be caused by third-party software or driver version. The system-wide freeze when killing the process via Task Manager suggests a low-level (kernel/driver) conflict rather than an application crash.

Attached: DxDiag report.

Please let me know what additional information would help investigate this further.