I have an English version of Divine Divinity, patched to 1.0034.
PC config:
Athlon 1333
512Mb RAM
GeForce3
SB Live! Value
Windows XP Professional Edition
DirectX 9.0b
NVidia ForceWare 53.03
The first problem I stumbled over was that the game wouldn't start at all. Those times I had version 1.0029. After the loading process completed, instead of seeing the main menu I were thrown back into the operating system with no messages in Direct3D mode and with a critical error message in Software or DirectDraw mode. Patching to 1.0034 and applying all of the hints listed on the forum didn't help anyhow.
I have found the solution to that problem: all that one needs to start Divine Divinity is to... move the mouse pointer after the loading bar comes to an end!
I encountered this possibility occasionally and wondered a lot what kind of a bug could be evaded in such a weird way.
But still troubles continue pursuing me. Most of them were about crashing to Windows at random places. But these artifacts brang no real harm because I always could load a saved game and pass that place without any problems.
Playing further I have encountered heavier bugs, the cutscenes, which once and once again crashed the game. As usual, no messages were shown. For instance, when I enter the church, I see two priests and then crash to desktop. When I try to rescue Caroline's boy from vampire's fangs, I see part of the cutscene, until the boy goes away. Then I crash to the desktop. Also I get crashed when wandering around the Dark Cave and approaching to some place being leaded by dropped gold coins.
I could try to avoid solving these quests, for they aren't that crucial. But here's the hanging cutscene that prevents me from climbing the storyline any further: the scene of orcs attacking Duke Janus. When the last of the orc intruders get killed, I crash to the desktop. :((((
It's very annoying, for one year ago when I played 1.0029 on my old PC which is Pentium 3 450, 256Mb, Riva TNT2 Pro, Sound Blaster AWE32 running Windows 98, and I experienced no problems of that kind. Aye, there were memory leaks but prevent me from completing the storyline!
Please help me, almighty developers! :)))))) (Worshipping like crazy...)
