I did not get around to completing the steps of solution 8 as you suggested. Interestingly enough, I did get the game working in an odd way. I downloaded Battlefield 5 to see if I experienced the same issue and was prompted to install EA Anticheat. Upon Installing the game as well as the anticheat, I ran Battlefield 5 without errors, and then I decided to try 2042 once again and it worked. I do not know if downloading the anticheat as prompted with Battlefield 5 is the actual cause for 2042 to start working again, but it seems that way.
