Confirming that playing offline decreased the freezing to 2 seconds.
This is crazy my younger fellows. I remember back in the late 80s I used to spend hours with my cousin to connect our ancient console to the TV in order to place Space Invaders. Our enthusiasm was so big that it could tolerate anything.
It's not exactly the same now, but I'm still powering through this ridiculous freeze because I rarely feel so hyped up with a video game anymore as I do with BG3.
