the major thing I have noticed when starting up the game since stormblood is that the message for win+g has been displayed. I thought this was the geforce experince. BUT it is actually the xbox app. this is a built in app for windows 10 but it can be removed.

to remove it, open powershell as administrator
then copy and run the following command.

Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxApp | Remove-AppxPackage

then type exit when it is done.

This has to be software conflicts. we need to identify what is causing the conflict.