A big THANK YOU to RedDragn for helping me to get the game to run without locking up my PC!!!

Well, if you can't play I can't kill you.  

What did y’all do for guidance and posterity?

We limited the CPU max usage to be 90%. Created a User.cfg file with some parameters that define the number of performance cores and threads the game can use (saved it to the game folder) and turned on the option in the settings under "Gaming" that tells Windows to use dedicated GFX to run the BF6.exe. It does that anyway but in some cases it helps to do it manually.