Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Technical Problems DD suddenly crashing all the time (sob)

Hope someone here has some ideas to help me. I have been playing Divinity for a while and am currently a level 30 mage. I initially tried running in D3D, but that caused numerous crashes, so switched to DirectDraw (back around level 1 or 2). Anyway, the game has been quite stable since then until tonight. Now it crashes every few minutes (sometimes to the desktop, usually to the metal). I have not changed anything on this machine, and am running version 1.34 of Divinity. Specs are as follows:

Asus A7v266-E, Athlon XP2000+, SB Audigy, Radeon 8500, Sony CDRW.
1 GB RAM
80 GB IDE, 40 GB free
Windows XP Sp1
Direct X 9.0a
Latest SB driver
Latest Via driver
Latest Radeon driver (cat 3.4)

I'm not sure what to try next. Tried turning down the sound acceleration one notch, tried switching to a 16 bit desktop (gag), etc. Since the game ran fine for almost thirty levels, I guess I don't think it is a problem with my config. I really want to keep playing, but I am starting to get really bummed by all the crashes. Does anyone have any thoughts. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/puppyeyes.gif" alt="" />

Thanks

have you tried turning off smoothness. I can't believe i played so jerkily for months before doing that and now.........nice and smooth........without the smoothness, go figure! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />

Yep, tried that too - no difference <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

Well in case anyone else gets a similar problem - I stashed away a few of my saved games, removed DD, defragged my disk, re-installed DD, installed patch 1.34, replaced saved games, and now have played for an hour without a crash (in D3D). I have no idea what was wrong, but something must have been corrupted. Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for many more hours of DD goodness. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Cheers <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />