Sorry for replying on this thread, but well - I also got the game today as my late christmas present, and your problem may be similar to mine.
I have a 3Ghz C2 Duo, XP SP 3, 2GB Ram and a Geforce 8800GTS, obtained the game via steam and had issues with crashing on load of the game / start of game....
I must admit general advice on the internet seems fairly poor, drivers are up to date, no dodgy codecs etc. I am a former systems administrator (I get paid for doing less these days!) so its nothing nasty behind the scenes (other than the usual Microsoft nasties).
The game settings are located (change [USER] for whatever user you run as) in windows XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Local Settings\Application Data\Divinity 2\Profile\
for troubleshooting at first, I reset the graphics options back by deleting the graphicoptions.xml file in the Profile directory (thanks for not providing a utility to do this simple task, its fun to have to locate where settings are hidden) and then turning off the 'UI in desktop res option' when running the game for the first time as it appears to me whatever the issue is has something to do with screen draw.
This leaves the game running at 1024x768...
I have so far tried running for a while on 'uglyvision' which while not exactly fully stable, seems to allow me to at least play... its not much of a solution, but I will attempt to write more as I experiment with getting it to run...
Incidentally notching up the res results in crashing on loading the game (after the logo movies) and/or crashing on game load of existing games. If I set to 1024x768 I seem to be able to get away with any graphics setting I have tried... so drawing issue or some type... hmm...
[Update - Rather than post again 22:41 - 07-Jan-2010]
Turning off (Disabling) Physx GPU acceleration in the Geforce control panel allows me to play in full res, with proper settings - the game looks okay, and responds well. Also appears to have solved the random crashing on tabbing out - oddly enough.
Hope this helps you too,
StarKillar
Last edited by StarKillar; 07/01/10 10:59 PM.
