Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Technical Problems Corrupt Game?

Sorry to bug again, but I have a question. Last night, I was in the Cursed Abbey and my game froze. I could hear the sounds of my character fighting(and dying) with the numerous creatures that were chasing me. I also could not CTRL ALT DELETE my way to the desktop, or use the Windows key. I had to do a hard boot of my computer(the reset on the front of the computer would not work either), but that was not the main problem.

I loaded up my last save game(which was Quicksave 2), and the loading status bar got half way through and then crashed to desktop. Thinking that this file was corrupted, I deleted it and tried my other Quicksave file. Same thing. I was starting to get worried, so I tried a non-quicksave file, and it did the same thing. I tried a new game, and it seemed to work, so I wondered why my save files didn't.

I checked out various threads here(man, there is a lot of good info!), and just decided to uninstall my game and see what happened(I did NOT want to start over, and probably would not have done so). I backed up my save files before doing so, and then uninstalled it. After reinstalling the game, I patched it to 1.34 before trying it again. It WORKED!!! My save files were not corrupt, but the game somehow was. Daphne lives again! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I realize that this is a meaningless post, but perhaps there is a moral to it. Backup your save files frequently, just in case! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Did you try deleting all of the files in the '..\Divine Divinity\Run\Dynamic' folder?
This folder is used as a cache for the game. Files are created / copied there from the save game folder when you load, and written / copied from that folder when you save a game. It is rare for a file to become corrupt (though a system crash and hard reboot ups the odds), but that could account for your existing saves crashing during the load process. Had you not already reinstalled the game, deleting the files in the dynamic folder would have been my first suggestion (it can not do any harm, at least, since the files get re-created as required the next time the game is started).

It is also possible that after rebooting, Windows decided recently accessed files were corrupt and 'fixed' one or more of the game files (though in that case, I'd expect new games to also be effected). One person had a system crash 5 minutes after exiting the game, and during the reboot Windows deleted the inv.b2 files from all their recent saves. Fortunately this is a zero byte file (perhaps why Windows decided they were corrupt) so it was easy to fix.

Hmmm. I'm not sure if any of those are the reasons, but they sound feasible. I think that hard crash of the game still is the best bet, but I now play without the screen saver, my Spy Sweeper, or my AV. Better safe than sorry.

(at least I don't have the torch issue that the other poster seems to have! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />)