Confirming with settings above this post, AND default (Vulkan) game fails in the same exact place, right when the in-game rendering loads on the first course/challenge, about 2 seconds into it....darn, this game looks like it could be fun...
No change. The game will boot into the menu just fine and will play the cutscenes when the career is started, but it will crash once the game tries to load into the first level.
Tested with default configuration.