Jumping Frost Spider Crash

[edward]

While playing in the Dragonborn DLC I was venturing through a black book. Upon exiting the book I found that my jumping frost spiders where around me. Naturally I took out my ebony axe and slashed one. BIG MISTAKE. This freezes your game but continues audio. Not only that but your mouse completely dies and the only way to bring it back is to unplug and plug back in or alt tab out of the game and use your keyboard to kill the process in taskmanager. Easy fix: Dont hit them.
My question is why does this happen? Anybody have some answers? Has anyone had this happen to them before? PS. This wasnt my PC crashing coincidentally, I reloaded the game and did it again and got the same result.

[Sly-Scale]

Sounds more like a CPU concern. Your computer may be taxed with too many programs in the background. Your trek through the Black Book might have attached enough scripts as the straws to "break the camel's back," so to speak.

First course of action would be to close any background programs, such as voice-chat services or internet browsers.

If you try that out and you're still having issues, try my questionnaire below:

Have you installed a considerable amount of mods? At least 20, but far beyond that?
Have you uninstalled *any* mod during this given playthrough? Texture mods are usually fine.
Did you get these mods from the Workshop?
Are you carrying a large variety of items? Potion ingredients, random junk, etc.
Do you have a lot of followers, or large texture packs?

If yes to those 5 questions, in order:
More mods can increase script load, or consume RAM to push Oldrim past its 4GB limit.
Uninstalling mods can harm game stability in a myriad of ways. Try not to do that.
Workshop is just plain less stable than the Nexus; less mod conflicts going with the latter.
More items = more RAM = easier to crash/overwork CPU.
More followers/textures = more consumed RAM = easier to crash RAM/overwork the CPU.

If you're saying 'no' to those 5 questions, that rules out problems.

[edward]

I have never used mods on the playthrough. I tried it again today and it still happens. Turns out even killing the spiders crashes your game. I didnt do anything either. I loaded up my pc got into the game and killed the spider. instant crash. Im 90% sure that this is a bug.