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I don't know what could cause the problem or why it would happen, and it's a minor complaint, but it's never happened with a GOG game that I've played before so I thought I'd ask - what would cause the icon to turn into a black square after playing the game for the first time?
This question / problem has been solved by Porkdishimage
Could be a case of windows colour depth or screen resolution causing a display error and the bad icon is then cached. I have had certain games 'lose' their icon and have to be reminded where it is.

Icons corrupting usually happens when a game crashes or you alt-tab and the game's screen size or colour depth is different to your normal desktop. It can happen just by quitting though as the screen resolution and/or colour depth is automatically switched.

Alt tab is a very bad idea with Divine Divinity, I've had it mess up icons on my task bar, its just cosmetic though and you can reset your windows icon cache. If a reboot doesn't fix it or you'd just rather not, Its a hidden file (iconcache.db) in your app data folder (where windows and other apps store their 'hidden' junk). Delete it and restart explorer.exe from the task manager.
Post edited June 25, 2012 by Porkdish
Thanks, it sounds like it'll be fixed next time I restart the computer then. I never alt-tabbed but it's good to know that that'll mess with cosmetic stuff, heh.
Post edited June 25, 2012 by johnki
MS' Tweak UI for Win 98/XP has a repair function to rebuild the icon cache when it gets corrupt. I don't think MS updated it for Vista/7 (there are similar third party programs), but as Porkdish said you can just delete the database file to force Windows to recreate it (Windows 7 Desktop Icons corrupt).
So I deleted the iconcache, and then rebooted the computer. My Anachronox icon was the one affected at the time (Divine Divinity's came back somehow) and in the control panel, my "System and Security" icon is also affected.

Any ideas?

EDIT: Nevermind, deleting it and then killing explorer.exe manually and running it again through Task Manager worked just fine.
Post edited June 26, 2012 by johnki