Game seems very unstable?

[Argensis]

Hi,

I purchased The Outer Worlds on Steam today, with the DLC in the "Non-Mandatory Corporate-Sponsored Bundle". It crashed while navigating the settings menu within 5 minutes of first launch.

When I try to start a new game, the cutscene starts panning across the halycon advertisment and a voiceover starts, but the panning stops suddenly. The audio plays for maybe a minute more, I hear a guy narrating about keeping the people in orbit. Then the game just stops doing anything and I have no control.

My system has a r9 5900x and GTX 1080, with 32GB of RAM, so it should be more than technically capable of playing the game. I have Windows 10 Pro update 2004 and the 466.27 nvidia drivers.

The known issues thread doesn't appear to link out to any issues or info on where to get a crash dump etc. I can see inthe steam browse local files option that the game is called Indiana internally, and I do see an AppData/local/Indiana/Logs folder, but it is empty.

Any advice in debugging or fixing this woud be appreciated

Edited July 18, 2021 by Argensis
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