Game freezes in videosequence

[jens]

You could locate the settings.cfg file for penumbra, I think it is saved in ./frictional games/penumbra/black plague/ or something similar in you home directory. Don't bother with the default_settings.cfg located in the redist folder.

Find the entry line <Sound in the file and locate MaxMonoChannelsHint and MaxStereoChannelsHint and set them to 8 and 1. See if this helps, it has helped in some similar situation.