I tried doing a complete uninstall and clean reinstall, disabling the dynamic mesh options, and monitored my RAM usage and CPU usage while trying to play and this time I can't even create a random gen world. I get that annoying video tdr failure crash from windows, which I've also atetmpted to fix by going through the Nvidia control panel and changing the physx configuration processor from automatic to Geoforce GTX 1050 and Im still not having any luck with anything. Not sure if I just don't meet the graphic requirements even on low settings, but if that was the case then why would I have a graphics failure on world gen with no preview set, it would make more sense to get that kind of error when trying to play the game if I didn't meet the graphics requirements.
Anywho long rant, been working on this for a couple days now and still cant seem to find a fix so hopefully yall have some insight. I cant find a benchmark for this game to check requirements against my pc to see if that is really the issue or if maybe something else is going on that I'm just not seeing. Please help! i'd love to be able to paly this game again, I used to be able to play it on this same laptop a couple years back, not sure what might have changed.