Can confirm this is not a one off incident. I have just got my new computer (RTX 3070) and installed the game, ran fine for a couple of hours and then got a fatal DirectX error and crashed the whole computer.
I have just been through all the recommendations by the mods on this thread, also gone through some trouble shooting via the official DirectX pages regarding repairing etc and now the issue is even worse, I now crash on pressing play. Currently the game is unplayable.