game randomly crashes after reloading from death

[SC-SafeCracker]

just as the title says, the game crashes randomly whenever i die and have to reload. no error message is given, no nothing. the progress bar gets to almost full then the game just crashes/closes with no message. it happened mostly in Apocalypse Weekend, especially during the Mike J fight. but then it started during my POSTAL run through Paradise Lost and now its doing it more and more. now its starting to do it in the base game. if it helps, im trying a POSTAL run through A Week in Paradise for the achievement. i also turned the bystander population down to the lowest, turned off ragdolls, corpse time was turned down to the lowest, and i turned off dismemberment.

this might be something else, but ive noticed that the bodied of the dead NPCs are blocking bullets from hitting the alive NPCs behind them. it also does the same to those same NPCs who are behind another whom i had already taken out that are shooting at me. the bodies are on the ground and by all accounts and logical reasoning would suggest that they shouldnt be in the way but they are. and its not like its only for a few frames or a short time. no, its like i can spray and pray and take out only one NPC while the other 3 or 4 behind them dont take any damage. next thing i know, ive shot like 150 bullets and only got one NPC. i noticed this during my Paradise Lost POSTAL run and i started noticing it in my Week in Paradise POSTAL run now too.

as for the rest of the game, its always ran fine. the game always had a tendency to crash whenever too many NPCs were killed, so i didnt go onto too many sprees. thats kinda why i turned the settings to what they are now for the POSTAL runs because i knew there would be unavoidable gun battles throughout the run. any advice would be much appreciated.

[Elder_Moloch]

Just load from menu instead of quick loading with Space.