Hey Cheshire, having a similar issue with frozen black screen on loading save file. Using the update with the fix (b.16 bugfix2). Could you please take a look into it for me?
It looks like there are a few issues here, I have a fix that should allow the save to load with some error messages rather than just blanking out. Some equipped items may disappear but the game should be fine after that. I should be able to get a build up later, I'm working on including some other fixes to hopefully prevent the issue from reoccurring.