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I've already had all the other problems everyone else had and I was able to fix them all per your instructions. Now I have a new problem.
Whenever I am performing a tumor/aneurysm operation, when I get to the part where I have to cut the dura mater with the scalp (after I've drilled the holes e did the sutures) the game simply freezes and I can't do anything. What now?

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I've already had all the other problems everyone else had and I was able to fix them all per your instructions. Now I have a new problem.
Whenever I am performing a tumor/aneurysm operation, when I get to the part where I have to cut the dura mater with the scalp (after I've drilled the holes e did the sutures) the game simply freezes and I can't do anything. What now?
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I was encountering the same problem. It still happens to me occasionally, but I've found that I can avoid it by going into the game options (from your office in the hospital, on the desk, on one of the clipboards) and disabling the audio. I also mute the audio on my computer, but I don't know if that's necessary.

It was freezing on me almost every time exactly as I cut most of the way through the dura mater.

Also, I still have the same problem as many others on this forum about putting the bone flap back on after drilling suture holes in it. The easy work around has already been mentioned, but all you have to do is not put the bone flap back in until you are closing. As long as you have put suture holes and suture strings into the skull, you can drill the holes in the flap when you put it back in to close up.


I just finished my first brain tumor surgery a minute ago. Can you believe the only thing that kept me out of the honor roll was a messy application of iodine?!?!

Tumor surgery isn't too hard. I used the wiki as a general guide, but the in game instructions are pretty good. First time through I accidentally went to +24, -12 instead of +24, +12 on the microscope. They kicked me out after I sucked half the patients brain out trying to find that damn tumor.


Here's a neat trick that I haven't seen mentioned here, but maybe I just missed it. If you fail a surgery, don't go to class, just close DosBox and start the game over. It will tell you to go to school once you're back in, and after you click through the slides it will tell you that you're wanted in the OR. Go into the OR and you get to repeat your last surgery.