It has been reported that sometimes background programs can make the game crash at startup or even randomly. Since there are bound to be more, if you have tried all of the below then it might be worth manually closing everything running in the background including any antivirus/firewall and try again.
- ATI Tray Tools
- Avast
- BitDefender
- Camtasia Studio
- Comodo
- Emsisoft Online Armor
- f.lux
- McAfee
- Open Broadcasting Software
- Origin Overlay
- Sandbox
- Steam Overlay
- Synergy
- Teamspeak Overlay
- ThreatFire
- Wii U drivers
- Xfire