What graphics card, OS, and drivers are you using?After being away from ED for some 7 weeks due to the galmap crash i decided on a whim to just try it with latest drivers, made no difference so the instant CTD still exists.
It is rare I have encountered a crash in ED and even rarer that the crash is reliably repeatable.
FTR I have a 1080 Ti, Win10 Pro, and latest NVidia drivers here.
If using Steam, have you tried validating your game cache - that has cured some unexplained crashes for me in the past.