I have the same problem. I have also tried all the things you have. I then tried uninstalling the Nvidia experience application (advice on another forum). Oddly, this did seem to resolve the direct x error I was getting, but it has been replaced by the screens on my monitor and laptop going black right before level loads on multiplayer. This requires a hard restart as nothing responds. Regardless, i still get random crashes that are the norm rather than the exception.
I never had any problems from this game before the patch. When the games works (which is rarely), there are some improvements, but my ping is sporadic at best. It starts at 50 and then sometimes bounces to 100, then as high as 200, and then back down. I am pretty sure I fixed this accidentally by doing a repair install of Microsoft C++ redistributeable and adding the x86 version as well. For some reason my ping stabilized after that. At least I think so. The biggest problem I have with the crashes are that they are not consistent and I cant pin them down to one thing.
It took me a while to realize that the only thing that had been changed before the crashes was the patch. Then I found the battlelog forums that have roughly 500 pages of people with the exact same problem. My specs are Intel core i7 - 16gb ram - gtx 860m - so hardware isn't an issue.
Hopefully more people will post to this thread to draw some attention to this because EA is acting like there isnt a problem. I appreciate any help, but I think we can skip the usual re-install game, clean boot, turn down settings, clean fans, stand on head and count down to ten, advice for fixing. I've tried all the typical fixes that would come to mind and this isn't my first rodeo. What we really need is a hotfix for the broken code. If you have this problem, please post it here and lets make this the official broken winter patch thread.
