My game settings are everything to max except Hairwork which I disabled.
What I observed though is that this issue does not happen if you start Metro Exodus in safe-mode (after crash) or the first time post install and then set everything to max (except hairworks) and start playing without rebooting the game.
It happens on the 2nd start after all settings have been turned up and the game was shut-down entirely.
This however happens on both the native Metro Exodus and Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Edition via Proton and VKD3D
PC Enhanced Edition Settings I get the crash with:
- Resolution: 1920x1080
- Quality: Extreme
- VSync: Full
- Motion blur: High
- Raytracing: Ultra
- NVidia DLSS: Quality
- Reflections: Raytraced
- VRS: 4X
- Hairwoks: Off
- Advanced Physx: On
- Tesselation: On
- Field of View: