Thank you for the suggestion! I tried it out and found about what I expected.
I have 16 GBs of RAM total. 6 of that is held up in other processes. I don't know much about RAM or how it gets used but, that feels a bit excessive right off the bat. However, when I go to start up the game it only climbs to about 9 GBs total being used. So it's definitely not using up my memory, which I interpret as it not being a memory issue.
This is for Runey: I did have another look at the traceback when I tested out my memory usage. The error message says: "I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred. After initialization, but before game start. error: Out of memory." Then it has the full traceback. As I demonstrated above, I don't think this is an issue of my memory. Maybe there's a memory leak glitch that can occur in some downloads?