pokemon stadium 2 issues

I'm running pj64 1.6 with the updated rdb. I'm using Jabo's D3D 1.6 with D3D pipline on. The first time I loaded Pokemon Stadium 2, it worked fine up and till the point were I created a rental team and attempted to enter a game, whereupon the emulator crashed. I then attempted to reload the game and it crashed as soon as the intro movie finished. Deleting the save file seemed to help, but then it just crashes again at the original crash point. I've tried tinkering with pretty much all the graphics settings, but nothing seems to work. Any ideas?

I checked my rom with goodN64 it checked out fine, its not a bad dump or an overdump. I checked out pokemon stadium 1, which is apparantly very similar graphics-wise and that worked at full speed with no graphical defects. What could be wrong?

What I don't understand is why it only crashes when there are save files present. If I manually delete all the pkmn stadium 2 save files, it works fine until I try to enter a battle.

There were never any cheats in use. I even checked to make sure none were.