Hi, I've been playing World of Goo very well until the Water Lock level at the end of Chapter 3 (Cog in the Machine).  I finished out the upper route, and now I have to finish the lower route.

When I click to start the Water Lock level, the opening animation plays fine for about one second.  Then, animation and sound stops.  However, if I click, the sound continues, but the animation doesn't.  I can hear water in the background.  The picture stays the same and I can't do anything else.

Ctrl+Alt+Dlt-ing out of the program works well enough.  The first time this happened, I did get a fatal error message.  (I didn't write down the details of it, though.)

Thanks for the help!

Hm, just a weird thing.  Works all of a sudden today..  Oh well.

I had a similar freeze right on the loading screen of the last Chap.3 level. Got an error message as well, could leave with Ctrl+Alt+Del. Worked next time I restarted the game. Till now, the one and only crash I've ever had.

BTW, here's the crash log. No antivirus program or internet connection was present at that time.

Exception: Access Violation (code 0xc0000005) at address 0055EC9E in thread 728
Module: WorldOfGoo.exe
Logical Address: 0001:0015DC9E

0012F5D8 0055EC9E 0001:0015DC9E WorldOfGoo.exe

Params: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

StackWalk failed (error 0)

EAX:00000008 EBX:0B1D6F0A ECX:781950E8 EDX:43B90072 ESI:0B1D7000 EDI:7814C00A
EIP:0055EC9E ESP:0012F56C  EBP:0012F5D8
CS:001B SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000
Flags:00210216

Windows Ver: NT 5.1 Service Pack 3 Build 2600

DDraw Ver:
DSound Ver:

Product: Product
Version:
Time Loaded: 00:54:33
Fullscreen: No
Primary ThreadId: 728