Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Technical Problems Game crashes when.....

My game keeps crashing when Janus goes to see what all the noise is about and gets attacked by orcs. I get all the dialogue but when the "Lord Protector save me" window closes, so does the game.

Minus a couple of random crashes during the game, I haven't had any major trouble until now. I'm not using any hacks, cracks, trainers, etc and the CD is always in the drive. I have the latest patch installed as well. If it helps, I'm using Windows XP, 1.2gig AMD processor, 512mb ram, gforce2 64meg video card...anything else you need to know, just ask.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm dying to play again <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Hi Adini,

Welcome in the forum - and thanks for liking <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" />

Did you try out the following things already:

*Make sure all your drivers are up to date and you have the latest service packs and windows updates installed.
*Turn down the windows hardware acceleration of the sound driver down by one notch.
*Make sure the color depth of your desktop is set to 16 bits.
*Make sure the integrity of your files is not compromised by executing a scandisk.
*Make sure you have no other applications running in the background (e.g. messengers, email, screensaver, virus scanner)
*Make sure you have enough free hard disc space
*Make sure you have full read/write access to the folder where you installed Divine Divinity

You also might want to check if there is a file called "error.txt" in the run folder of the folder where Divine Divinity was installed, as it might contain helpful hints.

in relation to this thread, lynn, does system restore in Win XP affects gameplay? i'm using Win Me & i always disable system restore. personally i feel that it's useless.

just curious. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />

Thanks a ton for your very quick response and all the suggestions. After I had done everything you mentioned, it still wasn't working. Then my husband kindly mentioned that it sounded like an install issue so I bonked myself over the head and started the long install again. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> As usual, that fixed it. I love trying to make something simple much more complicated. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />