Loading screen freezes, high GPU utilization / temps

I’m hoping someone can help. Got a 1.5 year old, Alienware R11 liquid cooled with a 3060Ti and 16 gig RAM. No overclocks or other mods. The system has run great. Until today. I booted up the sim, got to the end of the loading screen but no further. Shut down, rebooted, tried again. Same issue. While it was locked up this time, I opened up Task Manager. CPU usage was 11%, memory was 63% GPU was 99% with a temp @ 78C. I shut down the program again, GPU temp was at 38C within a couple of minutes. I’m running at 1920 x 1080, 75hz. No new drivers, hits during virus / malware scans, no BIOS updates.

I have no idea what is going on here. Does anyone have any advice? I’m going to be a seriously unhappy customer if I’ve got some hardware issues this early in the PC’s life. Any chance it’s sim related?

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