I have 1 update, with my CPU having 24 real cores and 8 ecores (efficiency cores?)

I also noticed I had some image icons a little blurry and the slow character loading in issue OP mentions, I read that using ecores for games build on older frameworks ect causes issues. I went into my bios, which for me was a gigabite screen, was f12 on boot -> CPU -> Advanced settings ecores from automatic to 0

the game runs much better and the icon images are clearer and I no longer see the slow character fade in effect I mentioned earlier. So a plus, unfortunetly I am still plagued by the super descriptive "A fatal directx error has occured" anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour in to running the game.