Hello all! I am experiencing a crash to desktop throughout the game every time I go into a puzzle which begins with Tex narrating something (e.g. the Anasazi gears).

I have managed to get around it up until now using a workaround: essentially, I realised that the problem was something to do with the narration. I also realised that if you manage to quit the puzzle before the game crashes, it will autosave. So what I've been doing is to open the puzzle, wait for Tex to finish speaking, and then rapidly tap "Esc" to quit the puzzle so that it autosaves before it crashes. I would then load up the game again, load the autosave, and go back into the puzzle, which would work fine this time round. The puzzle would start straight away without Tex's narration, so the game would not crash and I would proceed as normal.

However, I've now got all the way to Alcatraz (!) and I can't seem to get the brick puzzle in the first cell to work without crashing. I've tried my usual method, but for whatever reason the game isn't autosaving when I exit the puzzle. I've tried nearly every suggestion I've seen: turning MIDI off (and even all sound), removing dgvoodoo, running in software mode... Nothing seems to work.

This is deeply frustrating, as I've put hours into this game and it's failing on me near the end. There's no way for me to progress the game. I don't want to resort to watching the rest of the game as a playthrough, as it's been a great experience and that would ruin it.

Are there any other workarounds people on here can think of? I am playing the GOG version on Windows 10.