First of all, excuse my terrible English.

My problem with the game (and I think that of the majority) is that crashes right after the start. Just the little "loading" icon and boom, error message.

Well the only solution that worked for me was:

-Open it directly by its .exe file
- The first time it will show up the error, don't close the popup
- alt+tab and open the game again. It will run the second time as long as the first one is not closed yet

After it starts you can close the error message

Amazingly that worked - thank you!

Do you mind posting what your OS and hardware configuration is here so we can help determine if there's any common element?

It's happening to me too, here's my configuration:
* Windows 11 23H2 (OS Build 22631.3447)
* RTX 4070 Founders Edition with fresh install of latest game ready drivers (552.22)
* Intel i7-12700 (12th Gen Core i7)

Things I've tried that made no difference:
* Installing from downloaded 'backup' installation files.
* Completely uninstalling and reinstalling via GOG Galaxy
* Deleting save game files and settings files (ensured save game syncing was disabled in GOG Galaxy)
* Launching directly from .exe rather than GOG Galaxy or Start Menu shortcut
* Disabling or Enabling XMP (memory profiles in motherboard settings)
* Disabling or Enabling Resizable Bar

In addition, my system is not overclocked (aside from XMP, which I tried disabling) and I don't have any unusual software installed that would hook into every process (only stock Windows Defender, which ships with the OS enabled).

I tried running on another machine in the home - a Dell XPS with an 11th gen Intel i5 CPU, RTX 1660, and Windows 11 - that works fine.

The exception code in the coredump is 0xc000000C which is an Access Violation. The memory address is all zeroed out, which makes me think some API call failed to initialize a pointer, the error code wasn't checked, and then the game process crashed when trying to access the NULL pointer.

Works for me too. thank you so much!

It works! It sounds wonky, but it works just like you described. Thank you!