I've just started playing the game for the first time since the release and I'm encountering a game breaking bug.
The game starts normally but after a seemingly random amount of time the sound suddenly cuts off. This happens in the geoscape as well as in battle. It can take tens of seconds, it can take minutes, but usually happens pretty fast in battle.
If it happens in battle the game crashes a few seconds after the sound cuts off (this amount of time also seems to be random but not more than ~10 seconds). If it happens in the geoscape the game still runs, but when entering a battle the games crashes after a few seconds.
The game crashes with a simple Windows message of "xenonauts.exe has stopped working".
I have played pre-release versions of the game and did not encounter this bug.
The game is a fresh install from steam and without mods and I don't have any old saves. I only started several new games and the problem always occurs.
I've looked around the forums and couldn't find a report of a similar problem. Any ideas how I can get rid of this problem? Thanks in advance!