Yeah it seems to be in the same area, the orb weaver area around the big flat stone and the wooden fence. I have restarted a game, having deleted my old save as it was starting me in that area all the time. I played about an hour on a new save last night, but froze up on the rock by the mysterious machine, I then played for a good while today and did a fair bit before testing that area again, I got to the snail shell and the game froze on me, though just before that I went the other way, on the pond side of the fence and did okay, but got killed by a mosquito so dunno if going a bit further up would have caused a crash. But tht area of the game does seem to be a dead zone for playing the game, just crashes constantly.
This video shows what happens to me. I have to play in windowed mode cause... well... if I don't I can't do anything with the computer and have to shut down in order to do anything.
