Photoshop Crashes after quick selection tool

Did the 14.2 update today and since then i have been unable to use the quick selection tool, followed by quick mask. The PC Crashes.
Photoshop CC has worked perfectly until now
Please help, I am on a deadline for images for an online website, I so wish I had not updated
Image below shows quick mask, the selection was the top right above the frogs eye, but look at the red mask, also Task manager shown(it says Photoshop not responding)
This was the sequence of events if it helps
The Pc was working from a clean reboot.
I opened Photoshop
Opened an image off the camera
cropped to 1000px wide (72 dpi)
Quick selection
Quick mask
This is the result (happened 5 times to date so going for a coffee in the hope someone has a solution soon!)
Many thanks

I have reproduced it myself on one occasion, though it did not lock Photoshop up for me. It's been reported to Adobe.
There may be some connection to the zoom level. Out of curiosity, are you using Scrubby Zoom?
It might be prudent to try configuring Photoshop to use either the "Normal" or "Basic" drawing mode instead of "Advanced", though it is of course a bit difficult to know right away whether the problem has been worked-around.
-Noel
P.S., you said "The PC crashes"... Are you speaking of something beyond the Photoshop application locking up as you have shown above? An application locking up isn't the same as a system crash.

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