Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Technical Problems Help, tha game crashes to windows at random places

Hello everyone, Im totally new here.
I love the game but I have problems. Since the beggining I had problems loading some saved games. I didnt mind that since I started saving the game very often. But now my problem got worse since it started crashing to windows at random places. My pc is an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ with Windows 2000 professional, 512 MB, NVidia GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE with the latest drivers, DirectX 9a, Creative Soundblaster Live 1024, Samsung DVD-ROM. There is a point where it always crashes and that is when I try to get in the castle to meet boy Duke for the first time. When I try to do something else first and then come back then it crashed somewhere else at random. Please help me out. I have also installed the Patch v1.34 (english) after I installed and played the game a bit(if that helps). Before I install the patch it wasnt crashing during game, it was just failing sometimes to load a saved game.

You can try running the configuration program and (temporarily) switching to software mode (and maybe reduce the resolution). That helps with some cut scene problems, and may let you enter the castle. Random problems are much harder to diagnose. see;

Troubleshooting Tips (& manual install procedure)

Well, I did read many posts before I post my own message just in case I find the solution. Which means that I did try to change resolution as well as change to software mode, but same thing happened unfortunately. Any other advice?

Unfortunately, I have already put most of the advice I could think of, or had seen, in the troubleshooting topic.
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Thanks anyway I'll wait if anybody else has a suggestion. Until then unfortunately I cannot play the game <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sad.gif" alt="" />

Am i to understand that....
your playing with an old save from before you "patched"? or not? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />

Did you install the patch from an account with administrative privileges?

Thanx for the responses first of all.
I was playing the game before I install the patch and because it was failing to load some saved games (and sometimes failing to save a game) I installed the patch. Then I did load a game and played properly for a while (all this time saving and loading as usual, with the usual crashes) until it actually happened what I described on my first post.



Yes I did.
And by the way Im a games developer myself <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> (programmer to be exact) in Team17 (worms etc.)

i enjoyed worms. good job.

I forgot to mention that when I started playing the game on a different pc (Intel 2.8GHz, Radeon 9700, 512MB with all the drivers updated) it was fine and I didnt have any problems, even with loading and saving the game. So it must be something wrong with the pc Im using now.
Come on guys, help me out here <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />, I really want to continue playing the game <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

[color:"orange"] I forgot to mention that when I started playing the game on a different pc [/color]

Hmm so did you copy the savegames from the other PC to this one?
Dunno myself, but Raze could probable find a reason, like does divinity savegames check the ini files for OS support, ifso is the admin privilige different on this PC ?? hey I am just err what's the quaint expression ... oh yeah "brainstorming"

I tried to copy the saved games but did work so I started a new game.

Sorry I mean didnt work! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" />
Thats why I started a new game.

Did you copy them by CD-R? If the files in the save folder are marked as read-only, the game will crash when trying to open them. Also, games saved under v1.34 can not be run in v1.29, so you would have to install the patch on the second system, if you had it on the first.
Other than that, there should not be any problems transferring saves. All of the required files are in one folder, with no registry entry or index files somewhere else.

Ok let me make it clear by starting from the beggining.
I played the game on the 1st pc (Intel 2.8GHz, Radeon 9700, 512MB etc...). I had no problems.
Installed the game on the 2nd pc (Athlon 2400XP, NVidia GeForce4800 ti, 512MB etc...) and copied the saved games from the 1st pc. It didnt load the saved games so I started a new one (still on the 2nd pc). This is were the problems started. The problems I had at that point is that sometimes I couldnt load a saved gamed, and sometimes it was crashing when I was saving the game. So I installed the patch (just in case is fixes it). I loaded the last saved game without a problem and continued playing it. So I was playing the game as before, loading and saving (everytime on a new name) with the occasional problems when saving and loading, until I reached a point where it was crashing at random places. There is a point though that is crashing every time. That is when I try to enter the castle to meet the boy Duke for the first time.
Let me note that when I realised that the saved games from the 1st pc dont load, I deleted them completely from my pc just in case they create any problems to the new game.

I hope I made it a bit clearer <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />

i really suggest a clean fresh install....then patch....
then try starting a new game again......
bothersome yes <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> but it should eliminate the problem... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />


hmmm...this could be something...... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/idea.gif" alt="" />
i forget where that link is....RaZe knows... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

check this link.... card issues

and this one.. too!

Ohh... nooo... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" /> Plz dont make me do this. I have picked up so many good things and spending a lot of time making a lot of money <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shhh.gif" alt="" />



Well the Radeon 9700 it was in the 1st pc which I didnt have any problem <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
And is not the pc that I can play the game anymore <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />


What if I do a clean install, then patch and then use the saved games instead of starting a new game? Will that make any difference?

zip up your savegames and move them somewhere else...
then install again....start a new character
save... quit....move your savegames back....try it again...and see! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

other than that <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> i don't know....

good luck! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

Ok I'll try it now! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /> Same thing unfortunately... While trying to enter the castle it crashed to windows. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sad.gif" alt="" />

What worries me is that if I start a new game and the same things start to happen... What then? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />