ISSUE RESOLVED
-- I opened G-force Experience, and changed resolution settings to windowed. (Game was trying to load on my laptop screen, not external monitor, and was crashing because of resolution settings I believe) My external (main monitor) is 1440p, laptop is 1080p.
Game loaded in window mode on laptop monitor and was able to drag the game onto my main external monitor. Once complete I changed resolution settings in game. Closed game out and re launched. Game loads on correctly.
Somehow with the update / patch, the game launching got a little wonky.