Inventory tooltips causing game crash

hello,

After the latest patch, I am finding a high incidence crash rate for when I am browsing my inventory looking at different items. it appears as though as I scroll over an item, the tooltip tries to load but freezes the game for about 5 seconds before the game window closes with no error message and kicks me back to my desktop space. This has happened to me ~6 times in 2 hours of play. I have been playing on PC for about a year, and never had this issue prior to the newest patch.

Has anyone else experienced this? is there a fix? i9-14900k, 4060ti.

******Update 2024-11-28: The frequency of crashes has gotten far worse. It crashes about once every 10minutes on average. The crash is always due to tooltips. It has made this game unplayable. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the game, and the issue persists.