Media Encoder freezing down, wouldn't connect to AE project

Oh Boy, here we go again. I made the mistake of updating to the latest Media Encoder, After Effects, etc. and my Renders start freezing again. Please Adobe, finally have a look at this. Larger projects, including audio files, crash after a certain threshold. They simply stop rendering at a certain point and all there is left to do, is to forcefully shut down the Media Encoder. When I try to re-open/re-render, the Media Encoder wouldn't even connect to projects anymore ("Connecting to project..." spins but nothing happens).

I have to restart the computer and start from the beginning only to find myself in a never ending loop (Freezes again). I assume it has something to do with RAM/cash management... I don't know, just fix it please, it's only wasting my time. Thank you