strange glitch renders game unplayable

[jbartee]

So I've been playing through black plague on my macbook pro 2.4 gig with a GeForce 8600M GT graphics card. So far the game has been pretty much flawless except for some occasional random crashes (which can be fixed with a reboot).

Now I'm in the research room and am encountering a massive drop in framerate (less than 1 fps). The sound still works and I can sort of move around, but only when I enter the research room fresh from an earlier save game. If I try to load the save in the research room, my entire system crashes and I have to do a hard reboot.

This is a major bummer. Help?

Jordan.