I get up to the big red barn and when I click on the doors the game goes black likes its going to show a video then windows says the game has stopped responding. I am running Windows 7. I was wondering if there was a fix as I cant continue in the game.

Are you running the game as an administrator and has it crashed more then once at the same spot?

I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it then tried to run in compatability mode which asked me to give it permision to change things when I ran it but my saves werent there even though I had told it not to remove them so I couldnt try it again.
Edit: it did happen in the same place though before I tried compatability mode. Also after i did that somthing called Dwind(?) stayed up until i clicked a X on it.

Would have been a good idea to load from an save near to the crash point and see if its just a one time random bug or something persistant before deleteing the game. I haven't played the game yet is the red barn far into it or could you get back to it easily and see if it crashes again?

This is weird but its working now.
Id uninstalled the game again giving up on it but after posting this I thought id try again. I installed it and ran the game which for some reason remembered Id put it in compatability mode with the other boxes ticked it said it shouldnt be run in NT but I clicked yes to carry on. It started and my saves were there this time and so I loaded the last save and cliked on the barn doors and a video played where it just crashed before and the Dwind thing didnt stay either. I thought Id try to see if it would work without the compatability options and tried again and it didnt crash this time either.
Thankyou for replying to my post though.

Who knows what it was then? could have been a random bug in the game or perhaps something you had running in the background at the time that interfered with it, as long as its working now.

I forgot to save the game after it worked as I was only seeing if it worked and then followed up my ticket to say it worked. When I went to play the game it crashed again at the barn doors in chapter 2 just before the video should play. I tried compatability mode again but it still crashed at the same place. So now I cant carry on the game still.

Hi,
I'm sorry you're having problems with the game.
Don't take this the wrong way, but your description of which compatibility settings you're applying and how you're applying them is a little vague, so maybe give this a try.
Right click the game shortcut on your desktop, choose properties, switch to the compatibility tab and tick the checkboxes for these settings.
-XP SP3
-256 colors
-Disable Visual Themes
-Run as Admin
I'm also on Win7 and these made it work for me.

I reinstalled the game then used the compatability settings in your post. I also copied my saves from the local user directory into the gog folder for sanitarium. I ran the game clicked yes on "NT not supported contine?" and loaded the save game but it still stopped working when I clicked on the doors of the barn. Thank you for telling me how you got it working though it was worth trying as from as far as I've got the game is really good. I'll just have to hope that it will eventually work when gog offically supports Windows 7.

Could you actually run the game as an administrator and see if that fixes things? Right click on the shortcut and then run as administrator.

Thank you for the replies.
I now seems to be working thank you.
I reinstalled the game by right clicking and selecting "Run as administrator". I made sure that none of the compatability settings were ticked then ran the game by right clicking and selecting "Run as administrator". I loaded save game and click on the barn doors and the video ran. I saved the game after as well this time so that what happened last time it somehow worked then didnt happens again.
Edit - I would have like to have marked both the above posts as solutions but it only let me mark the one.

I am giving +1 to all since everyone had a part in your problem - You might do the same . . =) Top right of each post "Rate this Post"

Done, thanks.

Hi GOGgers,
I'd like to add a bit to all of the above.
I'm on Windows 7, with a dual core + HT processor.
I had continuous random crashes, especially when a scene was about to change or a video to be played. I had tried everything in this thread to no avail...
This is what worked for me:
- I downloaded the Microsoft utility imagecfg.exe. It was in some old resource kit, but you can still find it around the web.
- From an administrator command prompt, I changed to the Sanitarium directory (C:\Program Files\GOG.com\Sanitarium for me)
-I gave this command:
imagecfg -a 0x1 sntrm.exe
Everything is now OK.
The effect of the command is forcing the program to run on only one core (process affinity), and this is a known measure for old programs acting up in a multi-core environment.
I hope this can help someone else!
Two notes:
Be sure to download the utility from a trusted site, and scan it!
To get an administrator prompt in W7/Vista hit the Win key, write "cmd" in the search box in start menu, right click on "cmd.exe" icon and choose "Run asAdministrator"