Sony Vegas 18 stops responding when I press Render

I know there are posts like this but from the ones I have searched none of them seem to have the same timing issue I have so I was wondering if it may be a different issue.

I will explain.
I run 1. Sony Vegas 18(A copy I got from the Humble Bundle) on 2. windows 11.and the 4. Graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM.

Most posts I read say their Sony Vegas freezes during the rendering process, but mine never makes it to the rendering. When I press render as and set the parameters to what I want and then press render the program freezes then and the rendering pop up never appears. I've tried all sorts of solutions I have seen.

1. disabling GPU acceleration
2. Turn off Hardware Decoding
3. turn off render loop region only

all to no effect, the only thing that left me render is restarting my computer, starting vegas then rendering immediately.

Any idea on how to fix this?