My game was loading to 100% at start up and then crashing immediately before the main menu. I rolled back my graphics driver and now I no longer have this problem. My game is running normal again. Hopefully, this works for someone else too.
Are you using nvidia? i'm new to all this, experiencing almost the exact same problems as you (managed to load and play only once on hotfix 5 and now it's in the crashing cycle), and i want to make sure i'm not messing up my pc or anything.
