Draftsight keeps freezing and crashing

I am running DS2019 on a Dell XPS15 9570 (16gb ram, i7 processor, Windows 10) and the program keeps crashing and freezing. On some drawings, as soon as I try to zoom in/out the program freezes.

The performance of Draftsight has dropped substantially in the last year (for me). Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a solution? Thank you for your help.