I started my first run ever playing GC as the Republic and ran into a little issue I was at about 1 hour 30 mins in and was on Dagobah playing as Yoda there was one enemy left and as soon as I eliminated it the game froze and make this horrible scratching noise. Any ideas?

yikes, havnt had that before, maybe check that your drivers are up to date and verify game files integrity. does it happen regularly?

I actually thought about it more and I think the same thing may have happened to me before as yoda on Dagobah I'm thinking of maybe testing to see if it happens again.