@Leelosingmarbles Please try playing while your computer is online but Origin is in offline mode and let me know whether you get a freeze. If you do, please try playing in a clean boot, again with Origin offline but your computer online.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-boot-windows-10
When you reboot, go through the Task Manager's background processes list and shut down anything that doesn't absolutely need to be enabled. If you kill the wrong process by accident and it doesn't restart automatically, just reboot your computer.