I'm glad Syper Alex are aware of the issue. I really hope he fix it. I've been spending several hours trying to complete the game but it keeps crashing while loading animations at some point. And there's nothing else I can do now. I have tried in the lowest settings. Makes no difference.
I do have a good rig, but in my case I'm running on Paralells on Mac. I only get 4gb Ram while running Windows. So faar this has never been a problem, but with version 18 it is. Pushing up the Ram doesn't help so I'm stuck.
And now this will be followed with comments like "Get a real computer" or similar. Please, don't dissapoint me. Shoot!