Paper Mario TTYD Crashing

[SuperMarioT]

Hello, so I've been testing & playing TTYD with the HD Texture Pack and everything looks & runs smoothly for the most part. The problem is sometimes during battle when I execute a guard or usually a well timed action command attack, the game will visually freeze but you'll hear SFX of the game continuing as if everything's fine. I disabled dual core and enabled sync GPU, neither of which managed to fix the problem so I'm a little stuck. Any suggestions?

[Invader]

I'm not sure if this is still an issue, but try using the vulkan or opengl backends. Direct3D11/12 have some issues with this game.