Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Technical Problems Game's crashing!!

Hello I have played on Divinity for a while now and I'm very far into the game... and today I have saved my game as usual to prevent from going have to go back alot (If I died)... but after I played for about 5 minutes, after saving the game, the game crashed, shuts it self down and then returns to the deskop !!!! I tried to load my game again from the point I have saved at but each time it was loading, about half way through, it crashed again !! Fortunatelly I had 2 extra saved games at the same place.... but they didn't work either... all of them keep crashing!!
Please help as I don't want to start right from the beginning, as I'm just after the ritual from the council of seven and it would take me a LONG time to get to that place again!!
Sorry if this was answered before but I badly need simple instruction of what to do .
DarkHunter

Can you start a new game, save (under a new name) and load that saved game?
If a new save works, the problem is likely in the other saves; if neither work the problem may be the game itself, in which case re-installing the game may help.


Try deleting all of the files in the '..\Divine Divinity\Run\Dynamic' folder ('..\Divine Divinity\Dynamic' in the download version).
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. The files will be re-created as required the next time you start Divinity. If there was a corrupt file in that folder, deleting the files should fix the problem.


Check the number of files in the saved game folder (in '..\Divine Divinity\Run\savegames' in the disk version, or '..\Divine Divinity\savegames' for the download version).
Under Vista/7, depending on how the user accounts are set up, if you install the game to the default Program Files path, Windows can create separate savegame folders for each user, and then map that folder to the game's savegame folder (so it will just see the saves for the relevant user).
C:\Users\ %account name% \AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Divine Divinity\[Run\]savegames

Missing files might cause the game to crash when trying to load. After getting to the wastelands each save folder should have 37 files, and once you enter the Black Ring dungeon it should have 42.

If the saved game folders have .tmp extensions, it means there was a problem during the save process and it didn't complete properly.


One person had a crash in Windows 5 or 10 minutes after exiting the game, and on rebooting Windows decided there was a problem with the (zero byte) inv.b2 file in all the recent saves, and deleted them. Fortunately this file can easily be replaced.


Are you shutting down all non-essential programs (especially anti-virus) before starting the game?

Hello I probably can start a new game but I don't want to do that at the moment as I did that once before and I know that it deletes all of my previous saved games. What I'm trying to find out if there is a way to fix this mess so I won't have to start all the way at the beginning. I deleted all the files in the '..\Divine Divinity\Run\Dynamic' folder but the problem still isn't fixed. I am at the wastelands and in the Save game folder there is exactly 37 files (I have checked that) and none of the files have a .tmp extensions. I close all programs that aren't necessary apart from my anti-virus, because I once closed it and totally virused my computer (So turning the anti-virus off was a bad idea). Sometimes when I played on Divinity the game had crashed all of a sudden without any logical reason in the most unexpected times, do you really think that re-installing the game and starting again would help (Even IF I have to start the game right from the beginning). I mean it would be really awkward to start from the beginning when you're so far into the game . I hope that there is a solution to this mess.
DarkHunter

Starting a new game should not delete any previous save games (even uninstalling the game you should be asked if you want to remove the saves, or not). In any case, if you wish you can backup your existing saves first.

If you quicksave it will overwrite the earliest quicksave, but you can used named saves to make sure that doesn't happen. At least with the disk version you could edit a configuration file to increase the number of quicksaves kept (see the replies in this topic).



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