I'm meeting that white glove member in the steam room to discuss the whereabouts of Ted and Mortimer's scheme to resume eating people.
The game, which has been running quite well for me until now, crashes or locks up everytime. I have no idea what is causing it, or how to troubleshoot it.
I am not running any mods, just Darn's UI.
Anyone?

I came here to vent my frustrations about this very same issue. I'm in that room right now, trying to talk to the informant. Sometimes it crashes when I'm in the pool area. Sometimes it crashes before the informant sits down. Sometimes it crashes after he sits down. Sometimes I go through every piece of dialogue and then it crashes! It was an issue before and after every patch released. Why is this issue still unresolved?! We should not have to depend on community mods to fix this kind of lame [censored]!

It's not my system. It's the PoS Gamebryo engine.

I've been struggling with Beyond the Beef since encountering the Ultra-Lux. I avoided the zone, but now it appears that gaining trust with the faction is required for my playthrough (http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Render_Unto_Caesar).

The game crashes at any point after discovering the investigator's body. I've tried a variety of workarounds: w/ and w/o companions waiting for me at the Lucky 38 as well as wearing the White Glove faction clothes. I've also tried turning down my graphics settings.

I also tried skipping this step and heading towards the kitchen, but a crash occurred prior to that.

It's very unfortunate that this was not resolved in the recent patch.

EDIT: Looks like looting the investigator's body is linked to the crash. If I avoid picking up the note, I could head directly to the kitchen, I found Ted and fought my way out.