Crimson Gem Saga

[Lerianis]

Having a problem in PPSSPP 1.1.1 with this game. When I am called to the office at the beginning of the game to speak to Herbert, the first two lines (one from Herbert and one from the Main Character) play and then the game freezes and/or crashes. Anyone have a way past this issue or has experienced it themselves as well?
I have turned off all experimental and unstable settings in PPSSPP thinking that it might be one of those that is/was the issue but no joy.

Getting an error in the console of "user_main W[MM]: MemmapFunctions.cpp:93 ReadFromHardware: Invalid address 00000004".
So apparently it is seeing some sort of error and unable to read something and it is fitzing out?

For full disclosure I am playing this from a USB 3.0 external drive but it should be quick enough to keep up with the game.

Edit: After reading the thread it appears that something broke a long time ago from version 0.9.8 to version 1.0.0. Known issue but still one that needs a fix.\

Edit 2: Okay I managed to figure out what the problem was: I had to turn Texture Scaling OFF until I got past that second sentence and then I could turn it back on and keep on playing with it on.
Some weird problem with texture scaling.