Well, I ran into exactly this problem now. Few minutes after deliberately failing Mercedes' room scene for the bug to be fixed in 1.9.x.... crashed during hot shots, but I assume this isn't even important.
I tried with older saves, same problem - it's not even necessary to load a save, just shift o at the menu screen kills the game with the stacktrace above. I rebooted and unpacked 1.8.0 and 1.8.2 into a new folder, started the game and reproduced the crash right from the start, so my conclusions:
* it does not depend on the game files
* or the saved game,
* or any created [cache] files (unless they are created outside the game folder)
* it is something on my end, but
I didn't do nuffin.
I don't know what to do.
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sounds related. I have a single nvidia (1060) in my box. Still clueless, though. This decreases the chance that there is anything darkhound could do here.