Apex PC screen and audio freezes

After a few minutes of the game running fine it starts freezing every 10 seconds or so for a quick second. The screen freezes and audio sounds like it is glitching out, then the game continues for 10s before repeating. I haven't played in at least a year maybe 2 and never used to be an issue. I've tried:

• playing on ea and steam both the same. 
• updated drivers
• repaired game files
• uninstall/reinstall
• lowering graphics to mid range and as low as they will go.
• disabling vsync
• disaling frame rate limits
• playing with launch options
• playing with no launch options
• disabling steam/ea/nvidia overlays
• lowering mouse polling rates as I saw that was having issues
• playing with a wired mouse instead of wireless
• playing fullscreen
• playing windowed borderless
• lowering resolution to 1080p

PC specs are:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core Processor             (4.70 GHz)
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 4080
• RAM: 32.0 GB
• Storage: 2x 2TB SSD
• GPU Driver: Game Ready Driver - 580.88 - Thu July 21 2025

Any ideas on what is going on? At this point it's looking like an uninstall and forget it ever existed.