That makes a lot of sense. I have gotten Hogwarts Legacy to start more easily by deleting the compiled shaders. I also wonder if my instability is related to a couple of my cores running slightly hotter than the others. I may have been sloppy with the thermal paste, but I can't be bothered to fix it before I can get my hands on the next gen NH-D15.
Just a small follow-up. ASUS has released new BIOSes to some motherboards to pull performance settings back to Intel recommended. I did so, and now Hogwarts started with no issues. I have no idea what this will cost me benchmark wise.