[0.98.7]Crash when loading Sho-Battai

[GreyCowl]

The game has been crashing every time i went to Sho-Battai and the city loads up, the loading bar went up to around 70-80 percent done before it crashes every time. Its not just Sho-Battai either, but Stout and Heng as well. The problem seems to be isolated mainly around the UC cities in the northeastern deserts.
I have tried rolling back the game version to the current stable build[0.97.6], but the issue persists. One thing to note is that after rolling back the game version i encounter the issue with the save i started on version [0.98.7]. I hope this has been helpful and a fix is on the way, can't wait to visit the city myself.
The Crash dumps i attached to this post is for Sho-Battai for both version[0.98.7] and [0.97.6].

[someone]

Somehow 'police_sign.mesh' has become corrupt. I'm surprised the rollback didn't fix it. Perhaps steam's validation is failing for this file.
Try deleting that it then revalidating the game cache to get a fresh version. (data/buildings/signs/police_sign.mesh)

[MegaMak]

is there a way to get the file without validating? Don't want steam to override my compressed textures. dont want to download that much again lol