The most successful solution reported by the community is deleting the game's local data folder, which forces the game to regenerate clean configuration files upon the next launch. Navigate to Documents\WB Games\ . Action: Delete the entire Batman Arkham City GOTY folder.
The January build error is tied to PhysX memory leaks and DX11 rendering bugs.
Once you have the game running, prevent the error from returning:
The search volume for spikes every single January. Why?