Premiere Pro CC 2020 v14.1 Freezes Computer When Exporting
Hey all. I've started to run into a major issue when it comes to exporting my sequences. On exporting an H.264 file at the High bitrate preset, Premiere Pro locks up and freezes my whole computer, causing me to manually restart it. No BSOD, just a frozen screen, with the progress of my export ALWAYS stuck at 20% complete. I've narrowed it down to Premiere Pro eating up all of the RAM of my system, as the last thing my computer reads on Task Manager before it locks up is the memory at 15.9/16 GB. This happens MOST of the time. Every once and a while, I'm able to just get by, with a lot of system stuttering, but it eventually passes by and the overall RAM used drops down from being briefly at 15.9 GB to around 15 GB. As far as I understand Premiere, this shouldn't be happening, as I limit the alloted RAM for Premiere at 8 GB max... Any suggestions?
My (Custom) PC specs (if it helps at all)-
CPU: AMD Ryzen 2700X (not overclocked)
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti
16 GB of RAM (2 sticks of 8 GB, if that matters at all)
System HDD, 1 TB
Everything else HDD, 3 TB
Gaming SDD (not utilized by Premiere Pro), 256 GB
Windows 10, Home Edition