Nvidia couldn’t see any reason why it get stuck either. You could see if removing the check makes the game continue instead of crashing. In this case you timeout due to the engine being stuck here for 2 min.
in game files, lookup this file win32_settings.ini and change value of deadlock_detector_enabled to false
I was able to launch the game somewhat consistently by reinstalling my graphics drivers (Nvidia) before launching the game, after which the game would run almost perfectly. However, I would need to repeat this every time I launched the game
This also doesn’t sound great. Are you playing other games and in this case perhaps games using DLSS? Feels like this can potentially be an issue with your windows installation or something that makes the drivers not working as they should. Not sure if windows have a repair mode, but might be worth testing that.