So I've managed to play through the introductory bit, in the infirmary when trying to leave the game crashed with a DirectX error popup saying the following: See a few others have ran into th...
I'm still getting this too. Upping the page file helped with the initial occurence in the infirmary and ran fine for a while. Now it's back to crashing at the start of most cutscenes or if I use the mirror or transformation. Disabling strand hair seems to be helping, but the difference is so noticable after having it.
I didn't check the event viewer for earlier crashes, but the new ones are all the same (pictured below). Doing some hunting around I've found that slightly undervolting my GPU seems to have helped for now, with strand hair still enabled.