Can't Play Past Start Menu

Before my rant, I am playing on PC via steam and meet all of the system requirements to play the game.

Since the RedSec update, I can't play this game at all except for staring at the menu. If I dare attempt to load in to a game, my computer completely freezes, crashes the game, black screens me, and locks me out of being able to do anything at all on my computer, forcing me to restart my computer with the power button.

This has been an issue since launch, but I could usually get about 3 games in before a crash. Now I can't get past the menu without a crash. I have updated my bios, turned off overclocking, updated drivers, re-installed the game countless times, verified files countless times (always with 3 files failing), decreased my graphics settings, updated security mesures (aka: removing them so the game has zero restrictions)...nothing is working. There has to be something so tremendiously wrong with this game that the software is not working. Can this multi-billion dollar company figure out how to fix this game for PC users? I got to pay for the battlepass, and then crash. I haven't been able to do anything on the game, but sure...take more of my money. I already paid you over $100 to stare at the menu. What's more for the battlepass???

Does anyone have a true, real solution for this? Or are we going to wait 6 months before anyone from EA cares enough to even look at the issues we are having? (Can't wait to see if someone from EA responds to this.)

Thanks in advance, all.