So, two new things I noticed. Playing the game in XP compatibility mode seemed to work out better. It was either that or starting in windowed mode then hitting ALT + Enter to go to fullscreen. The only difference this made was instead of minimizing to the desktop and not letting me come back, it would just freeze, then come back and say "receiving" on the screen before working again. The other thing is that it seems to happen more frequently when I'm around people. Me and my friend joined up and it seemed to freeze and receive every minute or so and was completely unbearable.