Hi there, do you have an RTX graphics card? This is a known cause of crashes ingame. Have you tried putting your graphics setting to Low quality?
That's possible too. The game forcefully opens SteamVR/Oculus VR for whatever reason even though I disabled VR and start in VR. Oh well. This isn't an issue that has been reproduced on anyone else's machines. If it's okay (I don't want to be annoying, just want to solve the problem), can you send me your OS, specs & graphics card driver version?