Sorry for the long delay in response, it started working again with disabling the Nvidia Geforce; which is a pain because it wants to continuously restart itself and I crashed numerous times before uninstalling it. I am still crashing even after restarting my pc, so back to square one. As far as the exceptions go, I have selected all options for FFXIV under windows defender and will see how it works. I originally had XIV on my SSD but after fully resetting my pc I installed to my HDD because I did not have room on my SSD for any further updates/patches. If all else fails I may consider purchasing a larger SSD and moving my install onto it in the future. I will see how things go for the next few days and if I still have crashing I will test the compatibility mode.