Bug: Crashing during I Dont Wanna Hear It quest.

[envirovore]

On my 5th playthrough since version 1.6 and the first time I've had any sort of issue with a specific quest crashing the game.

I am unable to complete this mission as of patch 2.12.
Without fail, every time you're prompted to take a photo of Kerry with Us Cracks the game crashes when I hit spacebar to take the photo, whether it be just Kerry and Us Cracks, or as a group selfie.
Attempted 7 times, every time the game freezes and remains on screen and the CDPR crash reporter pops up.

I thought it may be a bug related to using Path Tracing in photo mode, so disabled that. No dice.
I've checked that the 2077 folder in Photos under My Documents has write permissions, no luck after setting it to allow to write - and the .PNG files the photo mode should create are showing as corrupt according to Windows.

GPU drivers, CPU chipset drivers, OS, and BIOS all fully up to date. GPU drivers clean installed via DDU, installing only the driver component (no GFE, no HDMI audio driver). No mods that alter the game content in any way (skip intros mod only).

Windows 11 23h2
Ryzen 5700x
Aorus Elite x570
32 GB DDR 4 @ 3600Mhz
RTX 3080
Installed to a dedicated gen 4 NVMe m.2

Can dig up and edit in the crash reporters log here, and probably should do so.

Not that it's preventing me from completing the game either, could just skip the mission and head to Hanako at Embers and get over my wanting to complete the quest chains for Kerry again as I know how they play out already.

Mostly curious if anyone else has had this issue at this point in that specific quest, and I suppose how they resolved it if they did.

[poop dumpster]

same issue here!

[Ye]

same