Hm, weird indeed!
Can’t tell if it’s a bug or not…(maybe, when you finish it, you can still upload your .blend, so we can do some testing?).
The VRAM getting so close to the available 12GB is probably also not helping…
Did you try opening this in 4.1, or 4.2 yet?
And tagging me is not really necessary, because I’ll read everything new anyway (I set the sorting filter to ‘Last Updated’), but you can use @ spikeyxxx without the space if you want.