I have tried everything that the assistants from EA said to do, as well as the options presented by other players having this issue, and nothing at all has worked for me. Not a clean boot, drivers are already updated, launching both Origin and S4 in Admin mode (even though UAC and DEP are disabled on my computer), compatibility mode for win7, and XP. Nothing. Tried disabling windows firewall and peerblock; nothing. I have no idea what to really do at this point aside from it being some sort of Visual C issue perhaps? Going to try and download the latest vc redistributables, will re-reply with results...
...P.S., Here's my DXDIAG:
[URL=http://wikisend.com/download/361060/DxDiag.txt]DxDiag.txt[/URL]