I don't know what causes the problem, but the game crashes after the pre-rendered cutscene at the beginning of Year Two.

In the original it is when the game asks you to insert the Disc Two, but here it just crashes.
Oh, And I am on Windows 7

Thats actually really funny to me. The game always kept crashing on my Win ME-Computer 15 Years ago at this part.
Sorry i can't help you with this, you better open a support case!

The same thing just happened to me too!

It's funny because this is the place where one was supposed to insert disc 2 back in the day. Ah, memories.

Just crashed for me as well on Ubuntu 14.04.

It seems to segfault, no stack trace just the core dumped error unfortunately,

support/gog_com.shlib: line 199: 5729 Segmentation fault (core dumped) ./"${bin_64}"

Same problem here :(

Same here. I could at least go on playing by hitting ESC right after the scene switches to the the pre-rendered bit with Manny using the mop. That skipped the scene and the crash (which seems to happen in every possible configuration; I tested this for a bit on Win 7).

I had the same problem on a Macbook Air. Skipping the scene with ESC seems to work but this is unfortunate.

The escape method seems to be a workaround yes, atleast there's that.

Managed to get a core dump from the segmentation fault. Never used gdb before I must admit, however this is where it crashes,

Core was generated by `./GrimFandango'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x080d08f3 in text_FindNextBreak ()
(gdb)

So I assume it crashes on a function called text_FindNextBreak ?

Edit: executing gdb on the running process instead of generating a core file first I get a different crash,

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x080d0c54 in Text_GetStringHeight ()

Which seems to coincide with the thread on the double fine forums, http://www.doublefine.com/forums/viewthread/16257/