Game Not Loading After Graphics Change in Settings

[[DNKN]GoNuts4Donuts17]

I just encountered this issue beginning on Tuesday. For the first time since I bought the game in March, I encountered an issue with the game not launching. The loading bar was static and would not move. I tried to launch the game several times, even after restarting my PC, no dice. So I uninstalled, and reinstalled the game. It launched with no issues. So I figured the problem was solved.

 

I get on just now tonight, go through and redo every single one of my keybinds and setup all the buttons and switches on my Warthog HOTAS and get every axis how I had it before. I do a couple test flights with different planes just to make sure I have everything how I want it. Then I go to my graphics settings and set my graphics settings to Ultra (which my new rig is [or at least was prior to Tuesday] more than capable of handling and running at 144fps) and restart in order for the changes to take effect. And surprise, it gets stuck at the launch screen once again, making everything I spent the better part of a couple hours doing all for nothing. 

 

Is this issue happening to anyone else? It's frustrating how it seemed to happen for no rhyme or reason and I am not about to uninstall and reinstall just to experience the same issues. I could understand if I was running a cheap desktop that I would run into issues, but there has to be some underlying issue that has just popped up that isn't on my end.

 

PC Specs:

Motherboard - ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero

GPU - 2x EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Black Edition

CPU - Intel Core i9-9900K 8-core 3.6 GHz

RAM - Team T-FORCE XCALIBUR RGB (4 X 8GB) 4000MHz

SSD - Samsung 970 EVO 1TB & Samsung 860 EVO 1TB

HDD Seagate Barracuda 2TB