Can you post a copy of your playlist file (or at least just the section for a nonworking game)?
I just asked in IRC if anyone could reproduce the issue and will report back if anyone can.
EDIT: no one was able to reproduce it in IRC. They did note that the fallback from Vulkan to OGL isn’t working reliably, and that can cause crashes.
Another thing you can do to investigate the problem is get a backtrace with GDB. Go here and download the build for your bitness and then put the gdb executable into your retroarch directory. Then, from a command line, type:
gdb retroarch_debug.exe
and at the gdb prompt, type:
run --menu --verbose
RetroArch should launch like normal, so go through the steps to reproduce the crash. Instead of crashing out, the screen will just freeze. Go back to your command prompt and type:
bt
This should give you a backtrace, which you can copy/paste somewhere like pastebin and then share the link here.