+1 First off, let me tell you that 10 min makes you a lucky guy, for me its like 15-20 min, but at least it gives me some time to do some chores around my flat.
I have the same problem. Actually three. When I try to run the game either what you are descirbing happens, or the game imediately CTDs, or it loads perfectly but there is no audio playing. Verifing game data did nothing, same as reinstalling the game from sratch to a different folder. What did help however, was installing the game to a different HDD, which is unfortunately not SSD disc and playing it from this disc makes the game incerdibely laggy and after some time unplayable. It probably has something to do with Patch 2 which seems to completely bug (freezing, crashing, performance, gameplay) the game at least according to all the reports here on forums. Personally I think the game should have been at least one another year in EA.
