Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) Technical Problems crashes

Game is crashing either to desktop or to reboot. Am using a P4 1.8, 512 megs of ram, radeon 9600, mb intell845, sb 5.1, have installed latest drivers and using patch 1.45, have installed/reinstalled game several times, anti virus off/on doesn't matter, same with firewall, checked for conflicts , etc dxdiag ran could email if it would help. Also get same error codes, messages from do you want to send to microsoft, could also send. Have question how do you send dx and error thingy ?

Are you shutting down all non-essential programs before starting the game?
Is the crashing random or repeatable? Where does it happen: during play, on startup, after character creation, etc?
Do you have any other similar games (or any programs that use a lot of system resources) and if so do they have any problems?


When you save the information from dxdiag, a dialog box will open allowing you to save the text file wherever you wish. After that you could (optionally) zip the file to make it smaller to email. In Windows XP right click the file, and select something like Send To | Compressed Folder. For other versions of Windows you would need an archive manager, most of which have right click context menu support.

Thaks for replying. Using XP home. Crashes are random during game play only, can load game ok, create char, just not play for very long. All background non essential programs are off. Stupid questionmade the dxdiag into a rar file how do I email it?

your email program should allow you the ability to 'attach' a file for sending.
look for a paperclip (type) icon perhaps along the top of the message?
if you don't see an icon for attaching, look under the worded-headers (File, Edit, etc.) for something along the lines of 'insert' - here you should find the ability also.
once you've clicked this, simply maneuver to the place you saved the .rar file and click to attach.
when you send your email, it'll go too.
i hope this is what you're asking and that i'm not being too simplistic (and thus insulting).

Again thanks for the answer to the question, no i like things to be explained to me very simplistic. Really only use net for radio and to look things up as I have never tried to send things with email. Went a little over a hour without a crash, new record for the game.

My game crashes after a few minutes as well. Sometimes it crashes to a blue screen, with the harddrive spinning away, sometimes (usually) it just reboots. Other times my mouse just disappears and the game stops responding.
I'm running:

P4 2.6gig 800 fsb
Gigabyte 8s64 GA-8S648FX mobo
GeXcube ATI 9600xt 256MB
512 MB ram
Fresh install WIN 2000 pro with all updates.
Australian BD with latest Australian patch.

I've tried the omega-drivers, and still no good. I've disabled and shut down McAfee, Kerio, EVERYTHING!! Nothing is left running in the background...

The funny thing is, Divine Divinity crashes for me too - and it did so on my last system too. It's not as problematic, though, because it crashes to desktop and I can start up again.
I suspect a memory leak, but can't be sure.

any help??? :o)

Do you have any other games or resource intensive applications, and do they cause any problems?
The rebooting may be a power supply problem if other programs do the same thing. Crashes and lockups can also be due to a heat problem, but I don't know about reboots.

Did you update your chipset drivers along with the rest of the driver updates?

If it is a memory leak, the topic Awful Slowdown contains some information on RAM programs and settings.
There are a couple memory testing programs you can try; Memtest86 and MS Windows Memory Diagnostic.

With windows it's always the same thing, after a while it gets so overloaded with its own garbage! ..My advise is to reinstall windows from scratch, you wont believe the performance increase, and not to mention stability.

Oh and as for BD? ..return it to the shop is the best advice i can give.
If been playing games for over a decade now, and i've NEVER seen such a bug ridden game! It takes the fun out of the game SO much.

Maybe with the next patch they can make the game beyond the beta version it is now. ...If they ever will release a good patch, last patch only brought MORE bugs (well done Larian, <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" />, amazing!), makes me wonder if they even test their products/patches......

hi i am having the same crash problems as the others and i play other games that are just as system intensive and i do not have this problem. i mean everything has been updated. please can you guys help us out if not i guess we will find another game.
thanks
wyrmjuice

If other graphics / memory intensive games are not having problems, then it is likely not a hardware issue.
Is there an error.txt file or something created in the Beyond Divinity folder?

Well, I've spent much time updating drivers, chipsets, bioses etc etc...
and still the same problem. Memory tests turn out fine, and RAMidle doesn't seem to help. I can't find any error messages <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />
One thing to note is that the game ALWAYS crashes IMMEDIATELY after I attack a rat. I've killed the torturer guy, and the imp, and then the rats turn hostile. Game over.

In the first act when you click on a rat in combat mode, it should pop up a message asking if you wish to turn hostile against all rats, and you can either continue your attack or cancel it. Since this seems to be causing a problem, have you tried doing a clean install of the game?
Backup your saved game folders, just in case, then uninstall, reboot, make sure there is nothing in the Beyond Divinity folder outside of the savegames folder, then shut down all non-essential programs (especially anti-virus), re-install the game, reboot, shut down all non-essential programs, install the patch and try playing.

Maybe start a new game, cancel out of the initial conversation and see if you can attack a rat.

After killing Fergus, try letting the imp go. It might not have any influence on the rat problem, but you get more experience doing it like that anyway.

I just installed another 512MB ram. Seems to be running now... *fingers crossed*. I just played for 15 minutes without a crash!

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/party.gif" alt="" /> Glad you got it working; I hope it stays that way.

I see that a lot of other people are having crashes - seems that 256MB is not the minimum spec! I had to get my PC up to 1GB RAM before the game would work without crashing. Maybe the specs need to be changed to reflect this.....