1.6 game crashes when swinging a tool

The game was working fine earlier today, but just now it crashes whenever I swing a tool (axe, hoe, pick).

This happens in both my current save file, and an older playthrough I loaded to test this. The only difference between right now when I picked it up and earlier today is that the basement was built and I'm cultivating a dino egg. But I also stared a new file to test that, and it crashed immediately.

Playing it on a steamdeck. First time having issues with the game. Tried uninstalling the game but that didn't work.

Anybody know why this is happening? Googled this but didn't find anything.

EDIT: resolved. Switched proton versions to experimental l.

EDIT 2: Here's a link to how I learned how to do this, in case you don't know how to switch proton versions. It was from a BG3 thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/15h9jwa/launch_baldurs_gate_3_w_proton_experimental/