almost 2 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
Was this in a campaign started under the new patches 1.35.x ? If under an older patch, you'll need to revert to that version in the Steam betas tab for the game, to continue it.  
almost 2 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
Did you see this question?
grotaclas said: Is there maybe a war between two AIs which have colonial nations? That causes freezes in some cases since version 1.34.

Maybe attach a problem save file here to see if we get the same problem.