Bumping in hopes of OP seeing this and letting me know if reformatting fixed it (I really hope not, I don't want to reformat just for this one game that mysteriously doesn't want to work for several people). This is the 3rd instance I've found so far of someone having this issue, not including me.
Edit: did some asking around and found that the only thing in common between everyone I know with the issue is that they have an SSD as internal storage. This game just REALLY does not like SSDs for some reason. Great that I don't have to reformate but bummed that the issue is basically unfixable unless if I downgrade my drive.
