crashing issue

[MrWizard]

Try OpenGL/Direct3D instead of Vulkan rendering. You can see its choking on something with vulkan graphics at the end of the emulog.

My guess is that drivers updated and something in Vulkan support broke for your graphics card.

[jesalvein]

think about downloading and installing this too : https://downloadmirror.intel.com/816901/...1.5333.exe

[Theobaba]

Sorry. I totally forgot to update you all that I was actually impatient and went ahead to RESET my PC.

As expected, that did not work.

What I then found out was that as @MrWizard has rightly stated, an update to my graphics driver indeed was the cause of the issue.

I had to ditch the DRIVER and download directly from INTEL's website instead of using Lenovo's.

After that, everything went and worked perfectly but because I obviously wanted 100% optimization and performance, I went ahead to install the GFX thing @Jesalvein suggested too and I can tell you that everything works even better!

Thanks to you both. I really appreciate