Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) Technical Problems Just a FYI

Ok ok ok ... I realize that I will get flamed for this ... but I'm posting my opinion and a few facts thrown in and didn't want to search the forums to see if I could find a related topic. Forgive me. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sad.gif" alt="" />

I bought beyond divinity recently due to a lack of games that looked interesting that I did not already own. After I got home ... surprise! Divine divinity included. Sweetness!

I jumped into google ... searched for patches and somehow ended up reading about starforce the evil one. I shrugged ... didn't care ... installed the game ... played it for twenty seconds ... installed the other ... did likewise ... and proptly forgot the both of them.

I have a fairly nice computer that I just recently bought:
AMD 3400+
1 gig RAM
160 gig HD
ATI 9800XT 256 meg graphics card
DVD burner
cd-rom
SB audigy2 ZS sound card
22" NEC/MITS diamondtron multisync monitor
running Windows XP home

Nothing spectacular but nothing to be ashamed of.

I keep my drivers/os updated and I usually check for updates daily. I am on my computer an average of fifteen hours a day so running at the best level I can is a major priority for me.

Random crashes started happening and I could not understand why. Checked my computer for viruses ... cleaned it of any possible spyware ... defragged ... the works.

Still getting random crashes.

Then I remembered the game and the starforce issues I read about (I saw the icons on my desktop) ... and was going to uninstall them. First I downloaded the SFclean prog and ran it ...

The crashes have stopped completely.

I am not saying that starforce was the cause but .... after alot of random crashes ... and then the removal of starforce ... then the complete lack of crashes ...

What I really don't understand is that I never even played the games ... not counting the few seconds that I initially ran them.

Suggestions? Opinions? Advice? Flames?

Please remember that I went to the trouble of registering just so that I could let everyone know what happened to me. Try and keep the flames to a minimum please.

Thanks,

Narcissus

Kris_Blake ...

I didn't run the game without StarForce. I played the game once for just a few seconds and then never played again. I had the latest patch at the time when I played ... the game ran fine.

The point I was trying to make was that I have very strong feeling that it was StarForce that was causing the sudden, random crashes that were happening on my computer after I installed the game. After I removed StarForce the crashes stopped.

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Narcissus <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

If you are so inclined, you could start Beyond Divinity again to re-install the Starforce drivers, and see if the random crashes return. If this is repeatable it sounds like there is some kind of conflict with the drivers; if not, it may have just been a coincidence.

I don't recall anyone else posting about random crashes in Windows after installing the game. It could possibly be an obscure conflict, or those that may have run into this attributed the crashes to a different program they were having trouble with, or didn't notice any significant increase in crashes.

Actually ... I was already considering doing that. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

I'll re-install the game tonight before I go to bed. It was crashing two or three times in a day so after a day's worth of doing my normal routine ... we will know.

If the crashes do NOT start happening again ... then I'll give a great big apology to Larian for even posting my complaint (somewhat of a complaint anyways ) ... although I'm 'fairly' sure that they will happen again.

Is there any way that I can determine exactly what crashes the computer when it happens? Any sort of log file created by windows xp so that I can know without any doubt. (I'm presuming that the crashes will occur again ... but the coincidence of it happening before while starforce/game was installed is very convincing.)

Thanks for the mature reply,
Narcissus

Ehh, Narcissus I deleted my post because I read your post again. For the first time I read it cursorly:). And when I was deleting my post you was writing another.
Sorry:).

Check Windows help for 'Dr Watson'; this is a diagnostic utility in Windows 9x, and I am pretty sure it is in XP as well. I have a similar utility from something else, so have not used Dr Watson.

From Windows 98 Help;