Constant CTD

House of God sidequest on my fifth playthrough
constant CTD when i try to catch up with Zmolla
have tried turning down graphics, loading earlier save, not skipping all intros, walking instead of running, turning sounds off. No effect.
Had the same issue when trying to do the second tournament the day after 1.7.1 came out but fixed it by turning graphics down to minimum for the duration of the tournament
if anyone wants the save file just email me at nopinkcreations@gmail.com

Have you tried the variation of telling the monk about Zamolla? He sends guards and they catch him and kill him at the millers place, sadly the informant guy is dead by the time that happens.

no i have not
i dont think that would fix the issue though
i am getting a hell of a lot of CTDs on all my playthroughs now

What platform you on? With steam and GoG you can run the Verify part of their game loader/launcher.
Another is to back save before if you have corrupted saves.
Or you could simply dump & reload the game and or saves.
I once had, several patches ago, about 10 saves get corrupted. I had to start way back if not over (forgot exactly which)

yeah im on steam and i did verify the files, made no difference
im going to have to go about 30 hours back if the saves are corrupted