Sorry spoke too soon, I was able to get it going. I wiped my appdata folder for ark-se and rebuilt it in the cache (way faster). It seemed to like that much better. I also used SteamCMD login as "Anonymous" to download the server files from steam, did not need to use my Steam login credentials.
I'm seeing this as well on an x99 platform, I've made the change for permit exclusive shares to "yes" and also switched my data to my cache drive. Unfortunately It's still in this "waiting for logs..." state after rebooting multiple times. Let me know if I can provide anything.