OK I was playing quite happily until this happened. I entered the battlefield, exited the battle field and then re-entered - this I did through the available controls it wasn't the game doing this just so you know this isn't the root of the problem. I then went to trade an npc and as I had the option of getting some stuff identified I thought "why not while I'm here" this is when the game froze. "ctrl/alt/del" to shut down the game and then this happens.



I click yes

then I get another error message saying this....



How do I do this?

I am running Windows Vista sp2

32 bit

I have downloaded the available patch to allow Beyond Divinity to run on vista did I maybe miss another patch?

If there is a patch or something to install just point me in the right direction ;^)

Any help will be welcome

The 1.49 patch is the latest version.

Running the game as administrator may let the configuration program delete the file. You can also just manually delete the files in the dynamic folders (but not the folders); '..\Beyond Divinity\Acts\Act1\Dynamic', '..\Beyond Divinity\Acts\Act2\Dynamic', etc. If you still get an error that way (windows can sometimes refuse to delete corrupt files), try rebooting, or boot into safe mode to delete it/them.

The dynamic folders are used as a cache for the game. Files are created / copied there from the save game folder when you load, and written / copied to those folders when you save a game. The files will be re-created as required the next time you start Beyond Divinity.

Windows Vista (and 7) can move the dynamic folders and the saved game folder to the user directory, and map them to where the game expects them to be (so each user just sees their own saves, if more than one account is set up). I'm not sure if it will do that if you are running the game in Win 9x/ME compatibility mode, though (ie to avoid a potential rare bug under Vista/7 - Inventory graphic placement bug).


Welcome to the forum.

Thanx Raze,

The patch 1.49 patch is the one I have installed.

I did as suggested and manually deleted these files only to get this error message



So I tried running the game as administrator and managed to load it without getting the previous error message which I thought was a little odd. Anyway it seems something else has happened as I no longer have any saved games to play. I can't find them on my system anywhere and I know I haven't deleted them. I made a new game and when I came off I went and looked in the save game file and this new save was there. What happened to my other saved games? Is there somewhere they may be hiding?

This is really frustrating as I don't really want to have to restart again even though I hadn't really got that far I find it a little disheartening to say the least

I don't know if running as administrator could effect where Vista puts the savegames folder, but it should be either in the Beyond Divinity folder or in the user path:

C:\Users\ %account name% \AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Larian Studios\Beyond Divinity\savegames

You could search your hard drive for files called data.000, or something.


If they somehow got deleted, you might be able to recover them with a program like Recuva, but the more you use the drive they are on the less likely that becomes. You can check if Windows made shadow copies of the saved games.

Recover Files with Shadow Copies on Any Version of Windows Vista

Once again thank you Raze,

I have tried all of the above suggested and it seems that somehow my saves have just disappeared. I will have to live with it I guess and start over.