Hi! I've received Machinarium as a Christmas gift from a friend of mine through Steam. I've completed the game yesterday at 5:30 AM with my girlfriend (we couldn't sleep before finishing it!)
We both liked it a lot, but unfortunately I experienced some problems while running it on my PC. At some random points (normally after 1 hour and a half/ 2 hours of gameplay) the game crashed. But not the normal "go back to windows, app is not responding" crash. I mean: the PC really stopped responding, showing a black screen and a strange looping sound (those that sound like crashes!). Ctrl+Alt+Del wouldn't work and Alt+Tab wouldn't either... Had to shut down the PC with the button, cause nothing seemed to be working.
This crash happened twice on my PC, but never happened on my girlfriend's, which is older! In fact, my PC is brand new and this is the very first time I have to shut it down by force (like having my first scratch on a brand new car!)
If you have any idea why this happened or if you have similar problems, say something please. I've registered on this forum, just to ask this question.
My PC is the new HP Pavilion dv8 (laptop):
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz
RAM: 6Gb
GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
Thanks for the help.