Baptism of Fire Crashes mid-battle

Hi all, up until now (PC) this game has been almost bug-free for me and gone smoothly. Right now I’m on the baptism of fire quest and mid-battle it has crashed (game just force exits) 4 times, re-loading several saves from earlier as well. Is there any fix for this? I’ve bought all the DLC and I really enjoy this game, but it sucks I can’t progress any further and have hit a stumbling block

only had one cradh. i simply loaded the last auto save, no crash at second attempt

I turned my graphics settings down to low (nvidia gtx 970) for the battle and it didn’t crash this time, then cranked them back up to medium.