Massive memory leaks on patch 883. Unplayable

This morning everything was running fine without an issue.

Logged off for a couple of hours, came back after the patch 883 (i'm assuming since no notes are up yet) and my memory usage when the game is loading goes up to 12-13 gig and freezes everything. This is happening when the load screen hits about 66% which is shown as equipping avatars.

Tried logging in to the last location (Elysium mines) and to world map and get the same results. Game doesn't get past the 66% load screen and just completely locks up my system until I kill the process.

 

Also tried logging onto an alt account. Different town, different equipment but still stuck after sucking up all the RAM and the game isn't loading.

 

Been fighting with this for about 4 hours now. Updated all drivers and windows and still hitting the same problem, can't load past 66%.

 

Full reinstall of the entire game seems to have fixed it now.

 

A full reinstall and verification of files did not fix the excessive memory usage for me.
Updating the NVIDIA drivers for my graphics card did.