Hello folks. I appear to have an issue with the Marakamda level. Approaching the end of the level, I get to the area with the Temple Lock. It doesn't appear to matter whether I open the door or not--the moment I actually touch the door (or where it was), the game immediately freezes, then crashes.

... Help please?

I had the same problem, but this worked for me. I saved right before the temple door of which you speak. Quit Blade of Darkness, and restarted it and went into setup. I switched the video option to "D3d i740 windows 98" and restarted it on the lowest settings. Now this is where is got tricky because the menu highlight was invisible so I had only sound and memory to guide me to the game>load>save file right before temple door, it loaded though and I was able to walk through it. I saved immediately past the problematic doorway (which again was tricky because no visible menu highlights). Quit. Restarted. Setup back to rOpenGL and when I loaded my game it ran fine with the fine amazon. Don't know if this'll work for you I don't know much about bug fixes.

This worked for me! I entered backwards, and the game didn't crash. Then I pressed escape, meaning to save the game, but then the boss monster suddenly appeared when I pressed escape. So entering backwards worked fine for me :).

I got the same problem, I am gonna try that backwards thing!

it happens in Opengl raster only so switching to d3d works but all you actually have to do is after unlocking temple door turn around and go through them backwards - it works, I done it numerous times
opengl raster doesn't seem to like the bonfires

it happens also in Xshathra (Volcano_M14) after passing last door with the key (don't remember name/temple door?/) and fighting with first Dark Knight (at left to the door) crashing in this lateral "corridor"
it is much less often there though but if it happens to you don't fight in the lateral corridor - pass through and go forward to next two knights, the first you've left will come anyways and you will avoid crash

Yes i try write solution for that but i se all done :) i Love old Games BOD is my favorite pc game and best fighting system ever :) prey for remake only with better graffic like TR 2013 :) Thanks for that game on win 7 my old not work and i dont instal XP Thank YOU GOG TM.

Work 100% i play Zoe and tested meny times :) just open doors and go backwards...