After Effects Continuously Crashing When Rendering

[lordnaps]

Having an issue where I am working on a project and upon hitting 'Render' in the Render Queue, my entire After Effects almost freezes in place and no buttons work forcing me to restart the app. I have sent a crash report, and everytime I re-open After Effects, a "Crash Repair Options" menu shows up before I can continue on. Ive tried all the options on the Crash Repair Options menu and it has not worked. Also tried purging cache, clearing all disk cache, uninstalling and reinstalling, and even downloading an older version After Effects which have all not worked. Ive also tried to render the video with different settings, which all have not worked. Its gotten to the point where, the project file almost seems frozen the moment I reopen it, as I cannot even Preview or playback my video anymore. I had no issues opening up other projects and rendering them, it seems to simply be this one project file. I've exhausted all my other problem-solving options which has led me to here. As seen in the photo in the Render Queue, the "Current Render" bar stays unfilled and shows no signs of processing or progress and is like that for continuous minutes on end. 

[Mylenium]

None of this is of any use to anyone if you don#t provide exact info about your system, the relevant configuration options for caches, hardware acceleration, multiframe rendering and so on as well as details about the project(s) and render settings.

Mylenium

[lordnaps]

My system is as follows:

RTX 3070

RYZEN 5 3600 6-Core

32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory 

3 TB of total Storage; 1TB SSD 2TB HDD

Ive allotted 197 GB to my Maximum Disk Cache Size and have 29 GB of RAM available for AE

My thing is I've already rendered this scene in the past once, it just seems that since I made adjustments to it, it wont render anymore. 

[lordnaps]

The project itself is about 5 seconds long, and is a VFX shot using some Turbulent Displacement and CC Burn Film but no outside plugins or anything extra.