I just thought id post that just today i thought id randomly try the game again after giving up a long time ago before, and as usual it didnt work regardless of the numerous changes to my pc, like drivers and stuff. So I thought id try some other things out of the box and found after messing with my CCC this still came up with the same error.
However the entire time I was on a dual screen setup (my primary is 1920x1080 natively, while the second screen is your average LCD monitor that runs on 1280x1024). I thought I would make the second screen my primary so the game launched on that and it worked, so it appears to be an issue with using my HDTV the entire time! allways the last thing I never think to try is the answer
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Just thought id post my own sort of solution (its still terribly annoying using a screen to my far right to be honest) after such a long time, incase anybody has a similiar setup to me and encounters this issue themselves (maybe they can figure out why it does it).
also, its not the resolutions thought, using 1280x1024 on my HDTV still causes the problem, so its probably the display itself for some unknown reason.