I followed all those steps to no success and then I started shutting down programs.

Eventually I got to shutting down voicemeter, and the crashes stopped, so there is some shared resource there that the game does not play nicely about. The crashes stopped and I was able to get a few AI games in.

I recently installed dow2 and elite on my pc and whenever I try to start either the game crashes with the error message DOW2.exe caused an Access Violation in module Shark.dll

I did not see anything in the FAQs or on the forum, but is there a fix for this issue?