Consistent Crashing At Beginning Of Chapter 17

[Lazarus187]

Basically I'm at the end of my proverbial rope here folks. This issue has persisted since I purchased the game last year, 1.1 patch notwithstanding. Initially I contacted Aspyr technical support, and they were utterly useless.

Essentially, the game consistently crashes to desktop at the the beginning of Chapter 17 ( Chronos ). It does not behave in this manner at ANY other point during the game. I receive the following error message:

Too many script variables

Script Stack Call:

->doendlevel
game_run

Here are my system's specs:

CPU: AMD Athlon FX-60 ( Dual Core ) ~2.6GHz
OS: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3
Graphics: BFG NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275, 896.0 MB
Display Driver Version: 6.14.0012.5896 (English)
Sound: SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio [7000]
Memory: 2 Gigabytes

Hope someone out there can assist. Many thanks in advance.