Dont install on a HDD, the post above you mention downloading it on his C drive which I assume is a SSD. I had the same issue and when I moved the installation to my C drive which was a SSD compared to my external, it workedView attachment 2149943
I don't understand why but whenever I try to launch to game .exe, this happens. I've tried redownloading it from different sources and extracting it multiple times from the files but it keeps starting up with this screen. Does anyone have a fix for this?