I am having exactly the same issue. I played for about two days and then I found that the intro was not skippable using ESC and once it finished the intro it took me to a black screen with a cursor.

System info:
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor (4.70 GHz)
32.0 GB (31.2 GB usable)
AMD Radeon RX ...