I am trying it again today, but it always freezes on D3D Verification (3/8). When I started up it skipped installing DirectX in stage 1 and 2, and went right to the D3D verification. One item of note, today it's spent a long time on D3D verification 6.1 (2/8) before going to D3D verification (3/8). I am hoping they've patched this since the bug was first reported hours after release, and it's been 4 days now.
GOOD NEWS, it's just gotten past that section to Installing...(4/8) for the first time (Windows 8.1 Update). Try launching it again today and see if it updates. I'll post back.
For some reason something is not being able to install correctly on your config. You can try these possible fixes:
https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge...c00007b-error/
Thanks for the suggestion, but I've been there, done that. I checked and tried to update all the above and already have the latest .NET framework, C++, DirectX, and windows updates. The updated won't install bc I have the newest versions.
Now all it does when I click PLAY is:
The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application.