Can you share in the thread or in a pm what combinations can produce crashes? On my end I can't get crashes out of character creation.
I have just make a couple of tests, and I think the issues is if you change for a longer name than 4 characters (as it's the length of the default name Anon).
Also, after a few restart of the game, it's started to open in a very tinny window :
I play in Windowed mode, with Start Maximized checked.
I finally found that was because the window size was "custom" instead of "1920x1080", which is my screen resolution.
An Idea for a little future improvement : to have an option at the start of the game to skip the little introduction to go right to the character creation screen.