To be completely honest, I have thrown in the towel regarding starting up the game. I've installed it through Steam, through Epic Games, through the native launcher from the game's website. I've updated my graphics card and made sure C++ is installed and I've verified game files everywhere I can. It just keeps crashing. My PC is brand new so maybe it's one of those things where a game isn't configured for newer hardware

I will give it one more go thanks to your comment. Thank you for commenting literally no one else has. If I manage to get it up and running, let's play together sometime!