Freeze on single player game after the Three Kingdoms patch: looks like sprite issues

Age of Empires II: DE II - Report a Bug
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:play_button: GAME INFORMATION

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  • GAME BUILD #: #141935
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

:play_button: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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Game freezes while playing a campaign scenario.
While playing the Into Chine scenario of the Genghis Khan campaign to experience new Jin, but it always freezes.
The error message says it is an issue about unit or projectile sprites. It says that some sprites may not be displayed. I have no idea why it happens. It first happens about early 10 minutes or so, and this usually goes well again. However, a few minutes later, another error message pops up, and this time, the game freezes and crashes. This even makes my PC background screen go out. All I need to do is restart my PC.
What is strange, the content of the issue messages are random. Sometimes it is about arrow projectiles, and sometimes, it is about Coustilliers all of sudden. This makes me confused as it lets me not even able to guess what is going wrong behind the game… Why is it even about unrelated units…?

:play_button: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

:backhand_index_pointing_down: How often does the issue occur? CHOSE ONE; DELETE THE REST!

  • 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

:play_button: REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Play Genghis Khan campaign, the 3rd scenario “Into China”.
  2. Capture the Villagers and wait for the Tanguts’ first attack.
  3. While they are attacking, the first error message may pop up. After a few minutes, eventually the crashing freeze happens.

:play_button: EXPECTED RESULT

:backhand_index_pointing_down: What was SUPPOSED to happen if the bug you encountered were not present?

The game should be no problems.

:play_button: IMAGE

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Cannot attach a picture as I need to restart my PC.

:play_button: GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

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