Frequent, Seemingly Random Freezing Issues after DT Patch

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[Lavafrost]

The platform is Steam, when the issue occurs seems to be entirely random. Once it occurs once, it tends to keep occurring every 5-10 minutes, and it seems that fully turning off and restarting my PC is the only way to stop this.

I've tried only running Discord alongside FFXIV (no in-game overlay), and it seems to have no impact.
I only play this character, so I can't comment on if it occurs on multiple.
When running Core Temp to keep an eye on my processor temperatures, the freezing seems to either have no effect, or they actually get cooler during the freeze.
I had updated my drivers to the most recent version a day or two after Dawntrail's early access launched (as well as clean installing it), and it had no effect on the issues.
The issue happens in both borderless and fullscreen mode, I do not play in windowed mode.

Hopefully this info from the system report is enough:
-=-=-=-=-=-=- System Information -=-=-=-=-=-=-

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SYSTEM_LANGUAGE English (Regional Setting: English)
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