Can't play the game; freezes on startup

[plutomaniac]

You must have an Asus application installed called TurboV, which by the way seems to be an overclocking tool. Maybe it automatically overclocks causing problems. Uninstall it because it seems to be causing general issues at your computer.

The HPL.log did not show anything different after the frozen loading screen I guess. Same as before?

Have you tried other games because from the look of it you may have a defected graphics card. Meaning a hardware problem and not a software that we were trying to find. What you are describing is probably artifacts caused by overclocking or a defected graphics card.