Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) Technical Problems yet another "Game simply won't start!"-thread

Greetings!

Just bought this game but can't get it to work. Browsed the forum for any helpful hints to get the game running, but no measures from my part have succeeded so far. Hopefully someone here might be able to help, since support@larian.com is on summerleave a few more weeks.

The problem? I seem to get past the cd-check just fine, the progress bar gets to 25% and then the dialog exits, only to be replaced by the "Beyond Divinity has encountered a problem and needs to close"-dialog. Upon examination it states that the div.exe file is responsible.

Some system specs:

Windows XP Home (SP1) running on Athlon 1900+, 80Gb HD, 1Gb RAM, Geforce4 Ti 4400, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy. Motherboard is an Asus a7v333. Just one optical drive (DVD-R/CD-RW combo, IDE).

Needless to say I did download and install nvidias 56.72 drivers (that support directx9), as well as Creatives latest soundcard drivers. I run directx 9.0b and dxdiag reports no errors. I tried installing the game the first time with no installation of directx9 from the game CD, and then with a fresh installation of dx9 from the CD. I have tried to start the game as version 1.0 and with patch 1.45 with no effect. I have tried uninstall+Starforce removal tools and reinstalling the game several times now.

I do not run any video filters that have been reported here to cause problems, I checked that the config.div is not associated with the divX-player, I checked that the files and folders are not "read only". Also, I do not run anything like alcohol 120% which could interfere. I had my antivirus system off during install and when trying to launch the game. I closed all unnecessary background programs before install and launch. I can watch the intro.mpg just fine with for instance windows media player. I regularly download windows updates as they come. I have been a nice boy <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Oddly enough I can manually start the configuration.exe and fiddle around and when pressing the "Test"-button it works ok, but when hitting the desktop icon for Beyond Divinity to launch the game, it crashes as before.

Very frustrating since my gaming fingers itch. Anyone with any ideas out there?

Same kinda problems,took forever to install,took all precautions...Just cant get the damn game on <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" />

Good Morning,

> I had the same problem, did most of the things that you did, ie. re-install, turn off Norton AV, and then I read somewhere on the forum that the game plays from CD2, as opposed to 99% of the other games I've played.

> If you already knew this, no offense meant.

FatVladdie

Thx for the effort to help me!

I forgot to mention that I tried launching both with the Install-CD (disc identification error) and the Game-CD (crashes after identification as described in my first post)

I have the same problem and so far nobody can help
hopefully sombody has a solution. please
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I got the same problem.
Game crashes right after sucessful CD Check.

My PC: P4 2400 MHz, 1024 MB DDR(333) (2x512 MB Kingston), nVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X (128MB), WinXP SP1 2600, DX 9.0b.

I Downloaded all files from Windows update, i downloaded all last drivers for my Video and Sound cards. I tried to run with both CDs also.

Please, someone help me out...

Right after the CD check the game should change the screen resolution through DirectX and play the intro video.

If you run dxdiag (click Start | Run, type in dxdiag and hit Enter), does it report any problems?

Do you have any video filters installed? At least the ReClock DirectShow Filter needs to be disabled to play the game videos.

In Windows Explorer, if you browse to the '..\Beyond Divinity\Static' folder, can you view the 'intro.mpg' video?

Lady_Rain describes an MS patch for video related problems in the topic CRASHING TO WINDOWS.

Are you shutting down all non-essential programs (especially anti-virus) before trying to start the game?

Yeah, it changing it to 640x480 or something like it.



It says that there are no any problems.



Hmmm I dunno, I installed some video codecs packs a long ago, maybe this codec was there also... How to check it?




Yeah, I can play it through WinAMP and mplayer2.



I just installed it, rebooted my PC, and the game are still crashes <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />



Yeah, I closed all process in manager, that could be closed (non-critical ones), and I disabled my anti-virus).

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Maybe it could be help: After it changing screen resolution, the game waits around 5 seconds before crash. And when I'm playing in other games or just changing screen resolution, it swiches 1-2 times. But in BD, when it supposed to play intro, it changing around 4-5 times.

I solved a problem. Here is my solution aka guide to solve 'intro bug':

http://www.larian.com/ubbthreads/sh...&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

[color:"orange"]I solved a problem.[/color]

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/party.gif" alt="" /> Glad you got it working.


BTW, video codecs should not be a problem, I don't think. The video filter I mentioned as a potential issue tries to actively adjust how videos are displayed to make them appear smoother, but this causes a conflict in BD.

Raze, thank you very much for your advices they really helped. I tried to change display resolution and color mode before, but it didn't helped. But after I installed that patch from Microsoft and Omega Drivers Pack, it helped atlast, when I changed color mode and screen resolution again!

*walked away to play in BD*

No problems.



Nope.



Yes.



Done that. No effect.



Of course. Bare minimum of system processes active, during installation and when trying to launch. I might also add that installing Omega drivers and fiddling with the desktop resolution = game resolution, or changing from 32 to 16bit did not help. Same crash as before.

I have the same problem.
At 25%, the window close.
But no error is shown.

Try setting the game resolution and your desktop resolution to be the same.
Did you go through the previous suggestions in the topic?

@yayo: Please send an email which describes your problem to support@larian.com.

Thank you.
Regards,
Lynn

I sent an email 2 days ago and no answer yet.

Tried downloading and installing Dx90c??? Dx 9.0b is old.