I readed a forum, and founded that many players getting the game crash, right after they ran Div.exe (at the place, where intro should start to play), right after starforce check. Afther few hours of messing with this issue, I fixed it, and now my BD game runs correctly. I'll hope that my guide will help others...
First of all, you should do what Raze said:
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?
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After this, if you still got the crash, and if you got nVIDIA, ATI or 3DFX card, you could try to install Omega Drivers Pack, located here:
http://www.omegadrivers.net/---------------------------
And last few things you could do (This last thing helped me to run the game without 'intro crash'):
- Switch your display resolution to your game resolution. For example if you got 1600x1200 resolution, and, in configtool.exe you switched it to 800x600, you should change your windows resolution to 800x600 too.
- Switch from 32 Bit True Colors mode to 16 Bit High Colors Mode.
I hope my guide will help someone, to solve their problems with 'intro crash' bug.
