Okay, so this game was the very first GOG purchase for me and I cant even play it without nonstop crashes not to mention spinning characters in church and then game freezing.
I first downloaded this on my Toshiba laptop running Vista and I disabled antivirus, shut down windows defender, made sure drivers were all updated, etc with NOTHING working.
So then I downloaded onto my old PC running XP and had the same issues. Non-stop crashes that bring me to a windows error message that asks me if I want to end program or search for a fix and end program. Then when I go to get back in it askes me to reset config.
This was so not worth the small price

I own both the cd version and GOG version and i haven't had a single ctd during regular gameplay with this game on any of the different systems i've run this game over the years. The game does seem to be a bit suspectible to crash during a quicksave though.

DD is somewhat tricky to set up and there are known bugs such as the cursed church (they are working on it). Here are a few things to check that might help in getting the game up and running.
Download and install the most recent video drivers for your video card. (you did this I believe, this fixed all my problems but the cursed church)
To install on Vista, right click the set-up file and select Run As Administrator, program may not fully install on Vista if this is not done which causes problems in game play.
After install on Vista, right click the DD shortcut and select Properties, then select the Compatibility tab and at the bottom, check-mark "Run this Program as Administrator.
Some folks are having problems with their AV program, Windows Defender etc. not playing well with DD, read thru some of the DD forum questions for hints on these programs. Make sure your firewall is not set to block silently and that the default Windows firewall is off or disabled (if using another firewall). My DD didn't allow firewall dialogs to show which means things didn't get done and affected game play. Might want to Alt-Tab out of DD first couple of startups just to make sure no firewall dialogs are waiting for approval behind the game screen.
It is a little difficult getting thru the catacombs but the game opens up for some addictive game play soon after. There is a cheat to give yourself money and potion if you need a little help on first play through.
As far as the cost, I paid $60 for a DRM infected game some time ago and spent days trying to get it to run. Finally uninstalling the game and removing the SecuRom from my system was the only fix (took days, whole days). I have already gotten hours and hours of game play from the $6 GOG DRM free game, don't think I got but a couple of hours from the $60 game.

I too experience a lot of CTD, 99% of them occuring during fights. Sometimes I can play for hours without a crash, then I'll get two in the space of 10 minutes. Fortunately the game boots up again quickly so it's only a minor inconvenience unless I've forgotten to quick save recently - which I do after most fights involving a few critters or tough guys. There's been the occasional other issue to contend with but nothing to put me off the game, I'm loving it. I was going to buy it on CD/DVD and then I saw it here for $5.99 and thought 'I'm having that!'.

I had just begun really enjoying playing Divine Divinity when it began crashing continuously. Like the OP, I tried everything I know of to fix it, with no luck. It is seriously frustrating me, because I very much wanted to see the story through.
As I mentioned in another thread, this is the only game of several which I've downloaded from GOG that has not functioned properly.

dream5866, sloptop - why don't you post some specs of your system? Maybe it only crashes on a certain video card, resolution, or when you haev a particular app running in the background? DD is on my wishlist, but I wanna know if it would work on my computer. first.

Okay, I am definately not computer savy, but I can try to tell you what I have. First, let me explain the crashes. I have played probably 60% of the game but that is only with reloading over and over again and some parts are just totally unplayable no matter what I do. It seems that the majority of the crashes occur when I am either fighting a strong character or there are alot of characters fighting. Four things that I have not been able to do at all because of crashes (not because of player level) is
1.) in the orc camp there is that chief (I think his name is baluk). everytime I try to fight him the game crashes.
2.) In the easter egg area any time I am any where in view of the two fighting characters it crashes.
3.) The church. I have the spinning characters and then it either locks up or crashes.
4.) Anytime I am fighting the lizard mages.
These crashes happen every single time no matter what I do. There are also many other crashes as well but most of those times if i restart I can get by it. Yesterday I played for about an hour with no crashes and then suddenly I had so many that I finally gave up after about the 12th one.
The bad part is I am so far in the game that I hate to delete it and restart all over again.
The system I have been playing the most on is the following (but I also tried it on my PC with xp with the same problems:
Toshiba Satellite A305-S6989
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5800 @ 2.00GHz
4 GB 800 MHz SDRAM
320 GB HDD
Windows Vista Service Pack 1
64 bit Operating System
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 (i think this is the video card and has latest drivers)
ATI HDMI Audio
Realtek High Definition Audo (not sure which one is sound card but both say current drivers).
I am not sure what else to tell you.
Oh, I have malware bytes and AVG but I exit out of them every time before I play. I also disabled the automatic protection of windows defender.
I know someone suggested turning down the software acceleration but I can not find anywhere to do that.
Oh, and I also tried only running as administrator and having the graphics config on the lowest setting and still have the same problems.

Most all of us playing DD are experiencing the same problems, some more than others, some less. I only have problems with the church and statues, so far. Had a strange crash in the sewers but the latest video driver cleared that up for me. Cleared the whole first map with only the church crashing me and not being able to use the statues (and the sewers till driver update).
My understanding is that the developer is well aware of these problems and is working on a patch.
Edit: Most proactive response I have witnessed from a developer in years. Genuine attempt being made to fix these problems.
I believe you may be having a few more problems because of the 64 bit OS and the graphics card.
I went to AMD and could not find your graphics card under Mobility Radeon but did find it under Radeon at You might want to go to [url=]http://www.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDHomePage.aspx and drill down to your driver yourself just to be sure (upper right corner). Make sure your driver is the same version as the latest driver. Right click on the desktop, click Personalize, click Display settings, click Advanced Settings button, click the Adapter tab and Properties and than the Driver tab, it should tell you the driver version and release date. If the release date is older than the release date of the driver on the AMD site (10/22/09 on the one I found), you might want to update your driver and try that.
Edit: Found that installing the newest ATI driver on one Dell laptop made the cooling fan run continuously, reverted to previous version. Was not playing DD but if your driver update cases the fan to run continuously you might want to revert as well rather than burn your fan out.
You might move your save files to your XP system and try continuing there, make sure the video driver on XP is the latest as well. Save files are at [your drive letter]\:Program Files\GOG.com\Divine Divinity\savegames\[your character name], just remember before coping and moving to rename the XP character if it is the same name since two characters with the same name would not be allowed. My copy is playing well on XP Pro 32 bit, especially now that I updated the video driver, except for the known bugs.
Wish I could help more but this is about all I can tell you to try. I hope we hear soon that there is a patch available. Until then, maybe try Sacred Gold, I got 90 hrs out of that with only a few broken quest, none game stoppers. Little bit tedious with the respawn but good fun if you liked Diablo or RPG's. I was going to start a new character until I found DD. By the time you finish that maybe there will be a patch for DD.
BTW, don't be discouraged by this particular game, I have bought 20 + games from GOG and this is the first to give me this amount of trouble. I have not found a better source or better community for games, got so many now I don't have time to even install them all. For sure . . . no better prices or guaranteed DRM free game source any where. I could go on and on about the DRM free bonus.
Regarding Orc Chief, I froze him and used the Singing Blade from the sewers without a crash, might be because I didn't allow him to land a single hit on me.

Thank you. I will try all of those suggestions and see if it works. I know my son downloaded Free space and I dont think he has had any problems with that.
Okay, well I tried the driver update and I got excited because on two of the instances where it was crashing it didnt (but I dont if I just died too quickly, lol), but on another instance (in the graveyard where you fight Shrimpo) it still crashed on me and in the church the priests are still spinning. So that didnt work.

This is the problem I have regarding fighting certain characters. The Orc chief crashes the game every time I get him down to about 50% health. I found an Orc shaman and he causes the game to crash too. Random fights will also crash the game, often when there are many critters and I'm wildly slashing away. Church is obviously messed up as well. I am getting a bit more despondent over the CTD due to the rate they can crop up.
Specs:
AMD Turion 64X2 Mobile Processor
2GB Ram,
32 Bit Vista Premium
ATI Radeon X1270 Graphics running game @ 1024x768 res
SigmaTel Audio Codec

Latest driver improved game play for me as well but I still have the standard bugs like everyone else. I think any kind of flash or light display caused by a bad guys attack is what causes the crash. Watching the cursed church, the crash doesn't happen till the fireball hits the Monk.
The lizard fireballs cause the same crash on impact, found if I side stepped the fireball and froze them . . . I could take them out without the expected crash.
I froze the orc chief and any other bosses and slashed away, refreezing, and slashing etc. If they never hit my character, not creating a flash effect, I can do them in without a crash. Still hoping for a patch.
Edit: I cleared all the orcs in the area before fighing the orc chief which left me free to focus on keeping him frozen.

I also noticed after posting my message that when I killed the Shaman without getting hit it didn't crash the game. Sadly twenty seconds later, an attack by a nearby Orc berserker crashed the game anyway. In the space of a few minutes, the Shaman crashed the game 4 times, and the berserkers twice. Not sure what makes berserkers cause me more crashes than normal orcs. Must be their attack or something.
Oddly enough I've only encoutered the lizards once and their fireball attacks never crashed my game. I couldn't withstand their attacks for long though so maybe if I had more exposure to them, they'd crash my game too.

Must be a great game since we keep playing in spite of all these problems. =^ )
My only advice is to make sure you have the latest drivers from AMD [url=]http://www.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDHomePage.aspx[/url]. Helped my install but the spinning monks are here to stay . . . at least for now. Freeze any bad guy that causes a flash when he hits you, other than that, I play on avoiding the known bugs. Apparently, using a statue causes a big flash, I get a black screen every time with those.
Regular orcs require no freeze for me, except the giant. Did I mention I use the "poison weapon" along with the freeze on any character that causes a flash with their hit. Poison causes damage between my hits it seems.

This is so strange. I wonder why I haven't been having these problems? I've had maybe like 4 ctd total, but they were all pretty random. I also had one or two instances were I couldn't select objects like stairs, but reloading fixed those.
I haven't had any of the unrelenting, recurring problems listed here. Am I just lucky?