Help with Game Crashes/Frame Drops on Immortal Empires

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Hi, I play TW:W3 on Steam using an Asus Gaming Laptop with a Ryzen 7 3750H; RTX 2060, 16g RAM, and play on Windows 11. I've been experiencing frequent crashes, usually around turn 100 or so, on the Immortal Empires campaign map. I'm also having an issue with some extreme stuttering during battles, which seem to get worse the further I am into the campaign. Interestingly, I do not notice this issue in skirmish matches against the AI or in the little I have played in the RoC campaign. The Campaign map also lags much more than what I was used to playing previously. When the game crashes it first stalls for several seconds and there isn't any kind of crash report that I have observed.

I've tried several things to fix including lowering the graphical settings (from Ultra>High>Medium>Low, interestingly I noticed almost no difference in performance no matter the settings), adjusting resolution, updating/reinstalling my drivers, verifying file integrity, uninstalling my virus software, allowing the program to run as administrator, etc. I do not have this issue with any other games atm. (In fact the only game I've had similar stuttering issues with is Valheim). I also have no problem playing Warhammer 2 on Ultra. So I do not believe it is my graphics card (knock on wood).

Is this just growing pains of the Beta? Or is there more that I can do to fix this issue?

Thanks for your time.