Consistent Crashing At Beginning Of Chapter 17

[Lazarus187]

Alright, found your saved game this time. Attempted to load it, and.... same issue I was having, with the same exact error message regarding "too many script variables".

I really don't understand what the issue is with Chapter 17, and ONLY Chapter 17. I swear I haven't had any problems like this with any other chapter, and other than an intermittent and annoyingly low frame rate due to the game's inefficient use of resources, it generally runs fine.