I've tried everything I can think of here. Once I hit the 100 shard event and begin tearing apart the bar , the game will reliably crash once too many brushes get collected. I have found no way around this (going slow, waiting for loading to stop, waiting for dialogue to end) and am running the cleanest install of Gmod possible with only jazztronauts and its content subscribed and downloaded.

On my first run i was running about 400 addons and was able to get through this section and into NG+, but after that every map began crashing so i decided to reinstall everything to try and fix it so i can get the true ending. Now I can't even get the first ending. Anybody know how to get around this? Do I need to find a way to downgrade gmod to an older version?