When you're collecting ostriches there's one room that looks like a bar with a big cauldron. When I entered it, the animation got stuck somehow and kept looping. I can't exit the room anymore. I tried saving and re-loading, but the save is now corrupted. I can't get out. I have to do everything all over again.

If you did not experience this, please do NOT post in this thread. There is no point in doing so other than to piss off the people who did experience the problem.

Edit: Same thing happened again. That part of the puzzle is broken and thus the game cannot be finished.

I think I had a very similar thing happen in a different room (forgot which, however). Perhaps I started up several animations and the controls went dead. No way to leave or interrupt. Didn't save there, closed the game and loaded an earlier save.
The game can also CTD out of the blue.

Well I loaded a save too and played until that point and it happened the same way again. The game is a 10 dollar brick, it's impossible to finish that puzzle.

Tried re-installing. Still the same. What the hell? I've tried playing with all possible settings, tried setting XP compatibility mode etc etc. Nothing works. As soon as I enter it starts looping on its own. I didn't even click anything.

Still no patch? Unbelievable. I can't finish the damn game because of this bug!!!!!!!!

funny, this exact problem is present in cracked versions of this game...