Tried it and it did not work, I removed the patch file and booted the game through the exe file with steam closed, it booted up as normal loads fine and will just crash with that directX error at random within 10 minutes. Tried removing the first two (one then the other) since there was another one besides the main one on the 25th on the 26th.
I looked on steaminfo for the patch file dates and it looks like they change some of the files themselves like the exe file. I'm not super tech savvy so I dunno if that is common knowledge or the right terminology. I will link what I am referring to. Thank you though! Was worth a try.
https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/12038234/
