This is exactly what's happening to me, as I laid out in my own post, with the addition of terribly distorted and crackling audio. I have a feeling it's related to audio stuff due to the Embody tech. Hope they fix it asap...im having issues on both versions of the game. dx11 i get the dx 11 errors everyone else is getting. on dx9 i get into the game and my CPU spikes horribly and i get a runtime error and then crash.
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My sound works fine with Directx 11 if I use my monitor and not my wireless headphones. However, there's a very long queue in my server right now, so I can't test how it is ingame.