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When RivaTunerStatisticsServer is running (used to display framerates and other information) and has an application level greater than none, the game crashes on startup, either during the loading screen or a short time after.
This occurs irrespective of what mods you have loaded (I have tried both fully vanilla and with a full space exploration suite)
To replicate:
Have RTSS running with an application level of low, medium or high
Launch the game
Wait for game to crash

Why not just use the in-game FPS display? Or the steam-overlay FPS display?

What ever is crashing is caused by RTSS and is on them to fix. We do nothing special regarding external software running or not except log it so we can better know if maybe it was causing issues if the game ends up crashing.