I went last night and locked the frame rate at 30, I also disabled vsync I was able to do the most wanted race a few times without it crashing. I think my graphics card sucks which is besides the point, in windows I run 1920x1080 on a 22 inch acer screen, I changed the setting in the game back to the default 1280x768 and the game played much better, I went to switch it back to 1920x1080 and noticed a massive framerate drop, changed it back to 1280x768 and it seemed to be alright as of last night, haven't played today yet.
Well that was nice while it lasted it worked a few more times today and now its right back to black screening and crashing as soon as I hit escape to skip the cutscene, which was working. This game sucks, ea can't do anything right can they. Don't think I'll ever be buying another ea game.
