I had a different type of crashing. The game would load into the main menu, the first cutscene would play, then about 20-30 seconds into playing the first level it would crash with a message saying it had lost connection with my graphics card and to review my graphics drivers and settings. My PC isn't new, and my GPU is an nvidia GTX 980 Ti.
After it had done this twice, I decided to update my graphics drivers as they were last updated a year ago. After that was done, I tried the game again and it worked just fine.
Thought I'd post this here in case anyone else gets a similar type of crashing issue.