Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Technical Problems Crashes back to windows

Hi All,

I had same error message as stated in one of the other post.
AppName:Div.exe AppVer: 1.0.0.34 ModName:slash4.dll Modver: 0.0.0.0 Offset 00002c1e

My XP with SP2 is a very recent installation with no driver updates.

This is why I bought another sound card, and disabled the onboard realtek sound card. This is why I know it is not the sound card problem. I have read in other post about the sound issue. To detune the acceleration. This did not help.

It is a video card problem under XP with SP2. Could be memory leakage. This happened ever hour or so. Then it fell through to the operating system. Game lost if you did not frequently saved.

What i will do install DX9c and see what happens.
I installed ATI version 4.8 drivers with XP and SP1.
I still get now and then noise over the speaker system.


Regards
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I also know in the English version of the game the ogg sound file for either the caverns or the sewers isn’t clean, so it will always sound a bit crackly in one of those two spots, no matter what you do.

Tsel <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

First of all i'm new on this forum so i want to say hi to everyone
&#304;'ve got the same problem too,but worse.

My PC is:

P4 2.02ghz
ASUS P4S333 Mainboard
2*128mb RAM
Onboard 32MB SIS650 graphics card
Onboard sound card
40 GB harddisk

The game always crashes to desktop NO matter where i am,
it won't even start the game i've seen the main menu once or twice
in my life.It always crashes on the first loading screen.
I use both XP(SP1) and 98 still,it crashes on both.First i thought it was
because of CD's but on other PC's it works fine.

It gives no error messages and doesn't create an error.txt
I've tried patching it and so but still doesn't work.

Maybe my hardware has a conflict with the game engine because
It does the same on Beyond Divinity's demo.
I don't think its because of the GPU,it was still crashing
On my GF2 MX400.I've tried disabling the sound but it doesn't matters.
Could the RAM or CPU causing the problem?
Thanks for your help

Your Lickerman
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It is more likely a driver conflict than with the hardware itself. Have you checked Asus' web site to see if there are any updated drivers?

The CPU shouldn't be a problem, unless it is overclocked, in which case other resource intensive programs would probably also have problems. This seems a little too consistent to be a problem with the RAM, especially if no other memory intensive programs crash or report errors (other than the BD demo). There are a couple memory testing programs you can try, though.

Memtest86 / MS Windows Memory Diagnostic


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

Did you look at the troubleshooting topic?

Have you scanned your system for viruses or spyware recently? (freeware anti-virus and anti-spyware programs)

MS has a patch for game video related problems in XP (which is included with SP2) that you could try, though if that was the problem, Win 98 probably wouldn't have the same type of crash.

Try setting your desktop resolution and the game resolution to be the same.

Check this topic to find out how to automatically skip the intro videos, in case that is part of the problem (either something with the videos themselves, or DirectX resolution switching to play them, etc).

I never had any kind of troubles with my DD, well besides the times I had a really messed-up CD-rom and it wouldn't read the cds right so I had to manually install the game...

but the game worked just fine on win98, winxp, sp1 and sp2

but sometimes, when I don't close all others background apps, sp2 gives me a bubble info(at the taskbar) during the game that involves virtual memory and that it's too low and that windows is increasing bla bla bla....
this could be a problem for you guys...I'm no expert but I'm just sharing my exp

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First i want to thank you for your answers

I should've uptaded my mainboards drivers ages ago
but i never thought of it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />
My RAM is working fine and my CPU is not overclocked
(I don't have the guts)

Yes i always shut down other programs before i play the game,
There are about 17-18 PROCESSES running and most of them are SYSTEM.
For the Viruses i had no once but it still didn't worked
Now my PC's breeding virus i am waiting for the next format so
i didn'tcleaned them up. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Vdeo's work fine but it crashes on the loading screen(The one with the sword)

My resulotion is 800*600*16 same as the game.
I'll try to roll back my GPU's drivers.

Did you run the configuration program and try switching to Software or Direct Draw, rather than Direct 3D? Try lowering the resolution, check 'Use AlphaBit' and uncheck 'Smoothness' (restore the original settings if that doesn't help).

If you haven't tried a clean reinstall of the game, you may want to check out the file verification method in the troubleshooting topic.

Hi All,

I did upgrade to DX9c all was ok with Radeon 4.7 drivers.

I then installed Radeon 5.3 drivers then I had problems again.
With XP installed with SP2 and Radeon 5.2 drivers also problems,
falling through to desktop.

So I'm back with Radeon 4.7 drivers.
So my problem is video driver related.

The strange thing is when video card is installed with Radeon 5.3 drivers,
no error message what so ever.

My setup PC.

2.6 GHz Intel CPU, Radeon 9600SE, Creative 24Bit Sound card, 512 MBDDR ram.


Regards