tom clancy's rainbow six siege

Game will randomly freeze while on siege only started happening recently doing things like ctrl alt tab doesn't help as its completely unresponsive until you shut it down by holding power button. Only happens on that 1 game ( so far )

I'm currently playing Rainbow Six Siege on a rig I inherited from my grandfather. It's got an i7-2600k and an Nvidia GTX 460 running on an EVGA P67FTW. I can squeeze 60hz out of it at a resolution between 720 and 1080. The Siege devs are looking to possibly start using Vulkan in the near...

So, i have been playing a game called Rainbow Six Siege for the past few months without an issue. The game recently updated to its new season - Ember Rise, and ever since, the game has stopped launching completely. I have tried multiple solutions, such as verifying integrity of game files...

I was wondering if I should save up a few hundred bucks and get at GTX 1070 in or around late January or early February or buy an SSD now. Currently I'm running an i5-6600k with a Sapphire Nitro 380x, and it's giving me pretty respectable performance but I've been running into some issues...