This is the issue I've been having too, tried a variety of fixes which haven't worked so I'm just waiting for them to fix it in the next patch. Apparently it's the Physx patch which did it and you can uninstall the game, put uplay on offline mode and play it unpatched which lets you go past that sequence but I've not tried that yet.
Thanks for the reply, I have read on other forums that with the digital version the patch is already on it, so re-downloading it wouldn't work, only if you have the dvd version.
Someone did a link to a file called "DataPC_patch.forge" to replace the original one with, but that didn't work either.
I have been playing the game with no problems up to this point, so it is nothing to do with hardware, graphic drivers etc just bad programming, but it is strange that some people have not had any problems
I have tried starting another game and it is working fine, it is just my original position in the game which is making it freeze at the initial free run before the actual game starts.
I had thought about continuing playing the game through again but after more hours of play it will probably freeze at the same place again
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