Through trial and error, I found out that the problem was related to the windowed game mode (previously I always played in fullscreen). Apparently for some reason the screen mode was reset and then when changing the HWAA parameter an error began to occur. I returned Fullscreen and changing HWAA stopped crashing the game. @Extricated, I hope this helps you solve the problem too.

Hello. I have the same problem on 1.24. At first everything was fine, but at some point the game stopped launching, and I reinstalled it several times and cleaned configs. When the game finally started, I tried changing the settings to the ones I had before reinstalling and it crashed again. Directly during the change HWAA to medium. I can set HWAA to low, but as soon as I try to disable HWAA it still crashes. I've never encountered this before.