Apex suddenly freezing

Since the last updates, my game has been freezing in a random manner (could be once in 15 or once in 120 minutes). It results in me getting 2 bans and ranked penalties. I am playing on high FPS, I have enough RAM, and still the game freezes. When it happens only ambient sound is heard but the video stops at the last frame frame. No buttons are responsive. The game does not try to exit itself, windows sees it as fully responsive. After waiting I dont get a "disconnected" or "error" dialog box or whatever. The closing of the game takes a lot of time and I have to use task manager. I also get the same style of freeze quite often for only 3-5 seconds and then everything continues.

Windows 10 Pro,  10.0.19045 build 19045

GTX 1070Ti, updated drivers 3 times, still seen on 581.29, Game Ready Driver. (Up to date, from today's release)

16 GB RAM, no other programs running at the time except Steam, Discord and FLUX (blue light filter)

intel-core i5-7400