Does the copy protection window come up at all, saying it is checking the CD? If not the problem may be with that, and you could try reinstalling the drivers.
Updating or removing StarForce driversWhat happens if you try starting the game without the play CD in an optical drive?
In Windows Explorer, if you browse to the Beyond Divinity folder and double click on the div.exe program file, does that work any better than the shortcut?
In the '
..\Beyond Divinity\Static' folder, can you view the '
intro.mpg' video? Don't watch the other videos, as they contain spoilers.
If you run the configuration program can you set the resolution, run the test and save?
If you set the game resolution and your desktop resolution the same, does that help? A couple people had problems with how DirectX switched resolutions, which this would help with.
If you run dxdiag (click Start | Run, type in dxdiag and hit Enter), does it report any problems? There are a couple of tests under the Display tab.
There are more troubleshooting suggestions in the following topics.
yet another "Game simply won't start!"-thread and
BattleFields N00b ?