I experience this problem as well, only starting since the 2/13/2014 patch. Sometimes it works fine, other times I crash with a sound-loop a minute or two after I get into the game. Between this and the unrelated non-pooled memory leak error, this game has become unplayable for me.
CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 @ 3.40 GHz
Memory: 8 GB
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3
GPU: XFX Double D HD-695X-CDFC Radeon HD 6950 2GB
Operating System: Windows 8.1, up-to-date as of this posting.
Video Drivers: Catalyst 14 and 13.12 both exhibit this problem.