tried everything still crashes on start up

Hello @ted721,
Is your GPU up to date? If not, can you follow these instructions, and tell me if it helps, please?

Update the driver of the graphics card:

AMD

Please update the driver of the AMD graphics card from:
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

NVIDIA

Please update the driver of the NVIDIA graphics card from:
http://www.geforce.com/drivers

Have a nice day!