got it to work! it turned out that avg antivirus was causing the crash. turning the active protection off while playing took care of the problem.
now though, i find myself thoroughly disappointed with the z-adaptive 3d implementation in this game. it’s nowhere near as good as skyrim’s 3d geometry. is this normal or is there a setting i should look at that could make it better?
i’ve tried running this game on 3d with my samsung gear vr using tridef and the implementation there was much better. it looked like real 3d.