game completely frozen and unresponsive

Assuming you can get to the game options, try resetting the options to default (Game Options screen, bottom left). Also clear the PSO cache (Game Options > Graphics > PSO Cache).

After this, start a new game to check that all works. (Without mods. You said you have none, so you are good here)

As a last resort if nothing works, you can backup your saved games, textures etc, and try a complete reinstall. Then copy over your saved games.

I had listed the procedure for a reinstall in another topic:

Clean reinstall (Topic: How can I completely get rid of the Mods )