CPU Gets Maxed out when launching game. Intro screen stays at 1 FPS

Hey everyone!

I recently built this rig, and it operates extremely well for almost every game i’ve attempted to play - except this one.

Now, my issue is simply this - when i launch the game, all cores of my CPU get immediately pushed to 90-100%, causing framerates to drop to 1-3 FPS, obviously unplayable.

No other game, from what ive seen, has pushed my CPU even remotely close to that hard, so im very confused.

I adjusted all my settings to be as low as humanly possible, to see if i can even launch the game; no dice.

My specs -
i7 8700k
16gb DDR4 memory
nvidia geforce gtx 1070
Samsung m2 SSD.

Any ideas why this might be happening? I’d really love to start playing. Thank you in advance!