Crashed once, twice lagged/freezed when loading from Kugane to > Tsukihime EX and Rhalgs Reach > Tsukihime Ex, had a over a minute loading with the sound cutting out completely. Was running the game on DX9. I had this issue yesterday too that when I launched FFXIV, the sound will completely disappear, even if I minimize FFXIV and play a youtube video the sound is gone, then when I close FFXIV the sound is back. GPU load still spiking to 100% at Stormblood areas.

Don't think its a overheating problem since my pc is cooled properly and has a fan at full blast facing it inside a 70F air conditioned room.