I tried that, and it did not work, same old.
I'd also like to add that this issue has nothing to do with multiplayer. The issue would occur in any mode, whether it be Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
I didn't have the bug on Windows 7, and I've seen a lot of people having this bug with W8.1. Otherwise the bug was more likely to happen on the second try, and on the first the game would take a few seconds to load the controls menu, after the bug, it would be instantaneous.