I'm playing Deponia 2 on Windows 7 with 4 gigs of RAM and a 1.8gHz dual core Intel. I'm able to get past the opening cinematics and the first scene with Utz just fine, but the next scene with Rufus on the saw keeps freezing and crashing on me. It most frequently freezes as the cork is flying towards Doc, but, if I skip that scene, and turn the resolution as far down as it goes, I can get as far as picking up the knife.

I have fully updated my OS and drivers, reinstalled the game, checked my disk for fragmentation, and adjusted my permissions. I am completely out of ideas and beyond frustrated that I can't get beyond this part of the game. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hi Valeana!

What kind of graphics card do you have? Minimum requirements of Deponia are 512 MB of graphic memory. Everything underneath may cause crahes.

But there's one thing you can try nevertheless: Look for the "VisionaireConfigurationTool.exe" in you Deponia-folder. Activate the "texture compression".
My computer kept crashing near the end of the game and that helped me out. Maybe it's going to work out for you!

The graphics card is definitely my problem. I'm only running on 256MB here, oops! Don't know why I didn't think of that. Thank you so much for the reply and help, and sorry I was late in thanking you!

No need to thank me though! I wished I could've helped you in any way.
My graphic card's running with 256 MB, too, but it still was capable of processing the game somehow. There was only the one said crash near the end of the game. Maybe there's a chance by toggling the texture compression.
Hope you get to play this fine game properly some time!

Game crashes when I try to talk with platypus trapper about poem.

How to fix it?

(Mac version)

After the opening cutscenes, the game crashed. I tried restarting the game, but the game now crashes after the Daedalic Entertainment logo video. This is troublesome. Why won't it work?

I tried it twice more. Before I tried it a third time, I went into the config file in the game folder. I changed the word yes to no in the full screen/windowed option (1st main entry). I restarted the game, and it worked. It did not start in windowed mode, nor were any options changed in the settings.
I have no idea why that did anything, but I'm able to play now.