I started the game with 16 MB of RAM set in the .conf file. Once I reached the point where you go to have drinks at the Flamingo, the game becomes unplayable. I can hear the background audio of the nightclub patrons and I can view items in my inventory and even exam them or try to combine them; I can access the auxiliary panel but nothing I do will cause the game to proceed.

I've read many reports of users getting "out of memory" crashes at this point, but I get no such error. Even still, I tried increasing the RAM to 32 and 64 but nothing prevents this hangup from happening, no matter how far back in the save games I go.