So digging a little further into this issue, I went into Steam and verified the integrity of the game files, and it found 4 that needed re-downloaded. The game then crashed as before. Went through this loop several times. Then I uninstalled the game and reinstalled on a different drive, and it worked just fine. I did not find any disk errors on the first drive, so I'm not sure what the issue was. Just wanted to update folks in case anyone else has this obscure issue.
So digging a little further into this issue, I went into Steam and verified the integrity of the game files, and it found 4 that needed re-downloaded. The game then crashed as before. Went through this loop several times. Then I uninstalled the game and reinstalled on a different drive, and it worked just fine. I did not find any disk errors on the first drive, so I'm not sure what the issue was. Just wanted to update folks in case anyone else has this obscure issue.
29 days ago