This sounds somewhat similar to an issue I had, the solution (or workaround) to which I found here: Solution for freezing when revealing cards
It seems to be specific to PCs with Nvidia graphics cards, though, so if that isn’t the case here, then the cause is probably somewhere else.
In any case, with that workaround, I was able to continue using Direct3D as the video driver, which is much faster and more responsive than any of the other options, at least on my system.