GM Steam Vers. Hogwash glitch...?

[MeToo]

I downloaded GM from Steam. When I reach the level with the Wicca girls (I believe it's called Facepalms and Boomsticks or close to it) a few strange things happen
1) Even when I have not "found" the gremlin Hogwash, it will always jump to the cut scene when he is unchained.
2) This will happen when there are 4-6 people left in the house
3) After the cut scene, the game closes out and Mr. Dialogue box tells me "Lost connection with display driver. Restart application. Error code 8." (Game closes first, then box appears.)

I have tried, and failed, to complete the level objective before this happens. I have tried "finding" and using Hogwash's powers. I have tried ignoring him completely. I've tried using no electric ghosts whats-so-ever. Ignoring all chained ghosts, scaring just the Wiccans, and any other possible scenario to pass the level. And each time, with out fail, the evil box gives me the same error message. Is this just a glitch since there have been no other issues running the game?

I have the most recent driver update (< week) and there have been no other issues through out the game until this point. Since the game closes, I can't complete the level, ergo, cannot continue to act III.

Now the specs:
Dell Inspiron 531s
Nvidia GeForce 6150se nForce 430
WinVista

Troubleshooting so far:
Firewall, down
AVG Virus, off
Background apps, off
Uninstall/reinstall, done...2x
Computer defrag/updates/diagnostic, up-to-date and green

It's a fun game so far, and I would like to continue to play it. But it's not worth ripping my computer apart, nor getting new cards since this is the only game I've ever had an issue with. Any advice would be great. Thanks!

-MeToo

[Nemesis]

That's possibly the weirdest glitch I've heard so far! I don't think there's any hardware failure involved, nor do I think it''s the display drivers or anything outside the game. It's the game itself. Just wondering: is it timed? What happens if you do absolutely nothing (i.e. just sit there and wait)? Does Hogwash still free himself and make the game go kaboom?

[gammer]

Wow, that is really weird, I crash a lot in that level too.
(Hehe I'm back)

[MeToo]

I thought it was a timed issue, but the only consistency I've noticed is the cut scene always happens when there is 4-6 people left in house.
I've tired doing nothing, and guess what, nothing happens. Everyone just keeps wandering about blabbing to each other. I did "nothing" and let the level run for a solid hour with "nothing" to happen in return.
I did manage to pass the level (finally) so I've continued on to the rest of the game. However, on the revisit more strange things happen. The Hogwash glitch happened again. But on the revisit, Weatherwitch needed to be freed too. (I got her in the tutorial so she shouldn't be there.) At least I got the Mirror Ghost out of it.
I guess I just have to live without Hogwash.
Thanks for the help.
-MeToo

[andreasaspenberg]

hogwash can be freed by a certain mortal walking past so maybe you can solve the problem by preventing that mortal from walking past hogwash.