Battlefield 4 keeps crashing on PC [Jan 9]

I have the same problem.

I started playing today, for the first time.

Did some campaign missions, then started playing online.

Played online for a while, everything was fine.

Then, at some point, the game became laggy.

The fps dropped to 5-3, so I quit the game.

After that, it would always crash while starting the game.

I am often able to hit the deploy button and it crashed after that.

I tried setting the game to borderless window, set audio to headphones only (using the test range, which just works long enough to do that, but also crashes after a while), disabled all other sound drivers, uninstalled the Visual C++ stuff and reinstalled from the given link, un/reinstalled Punkbuster.

The only time something different happened, which made me believe that I have the problem described in this thread, is when I was actually able to walk a few meters in an MP game.

The fps slowly went to 0 and the game got stuck on a sound loop.

Usually, it just crashes back to desktop/firefox, 90% of the time without an error message.

2-3 times the "whatever.exe has stopped working" error window popped up.

Whatever it is, please fix it.

I have a feeling it is a sound related issue.

If my PC specs are needed:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition

Sapphire Radeon HD6950

Asus M5A78L-LE

16GB DDR3 RAM Corsair 1333 MHz

600W PSU

All Logitech peripherals (mouse, keyboard, headset, gameboard)