Game randomly freezes with sound playing and goes into not responding for about 10 seconds before it closes automatically back to desktop. It happens in dungeon or just outside, it even happened once in main menu screen before I got to character selection screen.
Sometimes this will happen multiple times within an hour, on Friday launch it only happened once during 15h of playing.

No error message like most other seem to get, when freeze happens GPU, CPU usage goes down like I don't have a game running, in Task Manager its in the list as 'not responding'.
Yesterday instead of game closing down on its own due to not responding after 10 sec freeze it would actually come back and "catch up" within few seconds.

I have the Steam version, it is an issue only in FFXIV since 7.0 as I never had this happen before in FFXIV or any other much more graphically demanding game.
Same thing happens with different settings, I play on 1440p all max PC handles the game just fine, tried to cap in-game FPS to 60, unlocked, 90 or 100 in Nvidia control panel, fullscreen or borderless.

My PC specs are the following and I make sure to keep track of temps and performance on 2nd monitor all the time, nothing unusual before freeze happens:
RTX 4070-Ti Super
i5-11600k
32GB DDR4 (memory diagnostic tool 0 errors)
M2 2280 PCIe 4.0