Rift missions bugged and, rifts causing graphical lock-up and RAM drain

[Tekk]

I have had issues with these since day one.
Just started playing the game again, have gotten to Naonite and decided to start running some rifts.

in 4 or so runs, I have had the game lock up twice, forcing me to restart the game which lobs my ship back to my reconstruction site, and of course ends the current mission regardless of progress..

Just did, or tried to do, the one with the research satellites (Applied Xenology I think it was).
There is no visual representation of *what* and "interesting object" is.
Assumed to obelisks, lo and behold I was able to drop my first satellite there; then i flew to the next one and it indeed asked me to drop one, but when clicking it I was told that I could not use that there.

I then proceeded to visit all of the obelisks, spamming the flashing deploy button to no avail, even though the messages told me I could.

Finally flew back to the first one, and plop, place a second sattelite at that obelisk.

After that however, the icon was greyed out regardless of what object i flew close to in the rift, and after a good 25 minutes, the game froze forcing me to restart it, discarding my progress.


Am I the only one experiencing this?

*Update*
Attempted the same rift again, exact same result.
This time i noticed that it isn't the game itself that freezes, but just the "view-port"

I can fire my guns and hear them firing, I can open various menus and hear the sound of them opening, and see the cursor appearing.
Visually, the game remains frozen no matter what i do however.

[Tekk]

Another update.
Tried uninstalling the game and removing all temp files except my save, the result is the same.

I have also noticed, that upon "freezing" the game will increase its RAM usage by around 35MB per second, continuously.
If I just let it sit, It'll keep going till RAM is full and then the game just CTD (it got to 9GB for Avorion alone)