FF14 Freezes into crashes (No error messages. Just not responding)

[Payotz]

Hello! For background information, I have a MSI GE72VR laptop, and I have the graphical settings set to Standard(Laptop). I have a GTX 1060.

Problem:

I've been having freezes on and off during gameplay, especially during combat. The game will freeze. Said freeze will vary from a second to 3 seconds, then it will go back to normal for about 1-5 seconds, and then freeze where it will be Not Responding. Opening the launcher will result in UAC loading for a VERY long time, mostly resulting to freezing.

To play again, I need to restart my machine where the likelihood of another freeze into crash is VERY high. There is a slight freeze when clicking "START" on the main menu, and then it will let me login. Once coming back, there's a 70% chance of it freezing again on the next combat encounter, or any future combat encounter.

Again, restarting lets me launch the launcher again, where it will most likely not freeze again. If it does, a fourth restart will do it, and it might freeze later that day.

This happens once or twice a day, but it mostly happens during combat, from a BLM casting Fire 4, a WHM spamming Holy, and SMN throwing out Akh Morns at the same time, or just me auto attacking a mob, it doesn't matter. It can either happen at the exact moment I start the pull, during the pull or 2-5 seconds after the pull.

During the freeze, the music will play, and there are times when the sound effects will keep on playing or the sound effects will not play at all. Also the freeze can happen ANYTIME, it is just more frequent during combat.

Games such as Destiny 2, Starcraft 2, Metro series, and Overwatch have no problems, so I don't think this is an issue of my machine being bad. I have not overclocked the video card, and also removed the factory OC since apparenty Blizzard games don't like Overclocking.

Things I tried:

Installed Nvidia driver (398.82)
Installed Nvidia hotfix (398.98)
Disabled every program, essentially a clean boot.
Set power options to max for video card and laptop(this greatly reduced the crashes, but it is still there)
Disabled Discord overlay
Disabled Geforce Experience
Uninstalled Geforce Experience
Tried the Dx9 client(Dx9 has low framerates (30-40) for some reason, so I haven't played on this enough to test for a freeze into crash)
Disable full screen optimization
Run as admin

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I'm currently trying out other things in the meantime. I will update this thread with the results.

EDIT: I managed to get an error message out of it just by waiting the freeze out and not interacting with it. [Direct X 11000002]
Going to try compatiblity mode as suggested here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Error-11000002

EDIT2: It does freeze, but the freeze is a lot shorter. Around .5- 1 second. This does still happen between 1-5 seconds. Restarting does fix it, and it looks like it does not happen again after the restart. Will continue investigating.

EDIT3: It still happens even after the restart. The freeze duration grows longer and longer the more times it freezes. The delay between freezes does not change. Still frequently happens during combat.

EDIT4: Moving the files from SDD -> HDD did not solve the problem. However, it looks like moving it to the HDD makes the game more stable. Also, lowering the volume seems to result in the game being stable. Still investigating.

EDIT5: Muting the bgm in addition to the other things I've tried led to the most stable the game has ever gotten. This was before the 08/20/2018 hotfix. Will continue trying out bgm and non-bgm settings.