Maintenance for the week of April 22:
• [IN PROGRESS] Xbox: NA and EU megaservers for patch maintenance – April 24, 6:00AM EDT (10:00 UTC) - 12:00PM EDT (16:00 UTC)
• [IN PROGRESS] PlayStation®: NA and EU megaservers for patch maintenance – April 24, 6:00AM EDT (10:00 UTC) - 12:00PM EDT (16:00 UTC)
Okay, so it stopped crashing after a few hours, but the black screen thing wouldn't go away.
The Fix: Turn off G-sync in your Nvidia Control Panel.
Something about it was doing something with the display settings when I would click 'Play' on the launcher.