Major Issues When Loading Skate.

This has been happening since the Season 3 update and, from what I've seen, it still hasn't been resolved. 

There was already an investigation started months ago for the exact same issue, where the game would launch, switch to fullscreen, and then completely freeze the entire PC, sometimes even causing the monitor to lose signal and requiring a hard reset. That's exactly what's still happening.

Suggesting GPU driver updates and DxDiag reports is understandable, but many of us have already gone through all of those troubleshooting steps. People have updated drivers, reinstalled Windows, verified files, reinstalled the game, and tested other games without any issues. The common factor is still skate.

Every friend I have on PC experiences this same problem. The only reliable workaround we've found is to have another application running in fullscreen (such as a browser playing a video or another fullscreen window) until skate. reaches the main menu. Once the game finishes loading, it usually works normally. That strongly suggests this isn't simply a driver or hardware issue, but something related to how the game transitions into fullscreen during startup.

I also can't help but wonder how many players never come to the forums to report this. They install the game, their entire PC locks up, they're forced to hard reset their computer, and they simply stop trying to play. The number of reports here is probably only a small fraction of the people actually affected.

Hopefully this information can be passed along to the development team, because this issue has persisted since Season 3 and still appears to be affecting a significant number of PC players.