Also BIOS, drivers, up to date.

Same issue with default launch parameters.

Addendum: Issue also occurs at main menu.

Additionally I have

• Ensured GPU drivers were updated
• Ensured BIOS was updated

System specifications:

General Information
Computer Model Alienware Area-51 R2
BIOS Vendor Alienware
BIOS Version A14
BIOS Date 2/07/2018
OS Version Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Processor
Manufacturer Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6800K CPU @ 3.40GHz
Clock Speed 3.4Ghz
L2 Cache Size 1536
Memory
Available Memory 79.62 %
Page File Size 37,781.8MB
Available Page File 99.38 %
Virtual Memory 37,781.8MB
Available Virtual Memory 75.53 %
DIMM1 8,192.0MB
DIMM2 8,192.0MB
DIMM3 8,192.0MB
DIMM4 8,192.0MB
Network controller
Adaptor Killer E2200 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Adaptor Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)
Storage
Drive C:
Type 3
Drive Size 476.3GB
Total Available Space 322.4GB
Used Space 154.0GB
Drive D:
Type 3
Drive Size 3,725.9GB
Total Available Space 3,725.6GB
Used Space 0.3GB
Drive F:
Type 5
Drive Size
Total Available Space
Used Space
Hardware
Type Description
DVD/CD-ROM Drives
HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GS40N
Disk Drives
WDC WD40EZRX-75SPEB0
LITEON CV3-CE512-11 SATA 512GB
Display Adapters
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers
Standard SATA AHCI Controller
Keyboards,Mice & Pointing Devices
USB Input Device
HID-compliant mouse
Monitors
Generic PnP Monitor
Sound Devices
Logitech G933 Gaming Headset
Sound Blaster Recon3Di
NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM)
NVIDIA High Definition Audio
USB Controllers
Intel(R) C610 series/X99 chipset USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 - 8D2D
Intel(R) C610 series/X99 chipset USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 - 8D26
Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller - 1.0 (Microsoft)

Bump.

Have tried deleting Dell Data Vault files but this has not remedied the issue. dxdiag files however, now differ. 1st problem signature is now

Problem signature: P1: CtHdaSvc.exe

instead of

Problem signature: P1: DDVDataCollector.exe

but the latter line is still there.