NBA 2K12
Menu Freezing Issues
If the menus freeze for periods of longer than 5 seconds, detach your keyboard from your computer. There appear to be keyboard driver problems with the game.
Freezing after commercials
Make sure you launch the game with the MS-DOS command
start /high nba2k12.exe
If you make the following text into a .bat-file and put it on the desktop, you can launch it from there.
@echo off cd /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\2K Sports\NBA 2K12\" start /high nba2k12.exe
You can further reduce the chances by killing processes in the Windows Taskmanager. This can also be done by putting extra lines in the .bat file you made above, like this:
TASKKILL /F /IM dropbox.exe TASKKILL /F /IM chrome.exe
Note that some processes are needed for windows to run (like rundll32.exe)