worked like a charm. thank you.
Wow that's great to hear
So the issue was most likely that you are either running out of RAM or VRAM. This happens if the game loads too many images at once. This scene with Lisa has the most images of any scene in the game, so I think it just pushed it over the edge. The Ashely poker scene has the 2nd most images, so it doesn't surprise me that the issue happened there too.
But when I was investigating this, I found something funny. I didn't realize I was also loading ALL of the wallpapers in the entire game, right when the game launched, and never clearing them out! So no matter which part of the game you were playing, all 198 full high resolution images were loaded for no reason and wasting a lot of RAM & VRAM!
I hacked in a little fix for that by only loading them when you're actually inside of the wallpaper app, and it reduced VRAM usage by 50% and RAM usage by about 25%! Bonus: The game should actually launch just a little bit faster now too.
The only downside is that you may notice the wallpaper app takes a little bit longer to load now. But I think it's a good trade-off and I hope this will also help with some of the crashes that others have had in the past.