From about a second after the text on the splash screen starts moving, the screen goes solid white, and only occasionally flashes the image up. I can't click or arrow key select any of the menu items, even if i manage to read them between white flashes. The game is completely unplayable.

Is anyone else getting this? Also system is winXP.

Download the DirectX End-User Runtimes. Create a directory to unzip the files to as that is all the file does. After it unzips, go to the directx directory you created and run the directxsetup.exe. This will ensure you have the latest version of directx.

Make sure you have the latest version of your video driver.
Click here for ATI
Click here for Nvidia
Click here for Intel

These are the first steps I would take, might not fix it but you will eliminate old directx files and old video drivers as the source of the problem.

Direct X and video drivers are up to date, of course that means DX9 but this game should hardly require better. Vid card is a NVidia Geforce GTX 260.

Problem still exists however.

im having same problem.

http://youtu.be/b4g6p0pa_JQ

Yep, exactly what I'm seeing. I can't find a solution so i uninstalled. Pity, 'cause the game looked fun.

Same here. GeForce9600+newest drivers.

Oh, and Windows XP SP3, if it matters.

Trying to duplicate the problem I have installed on XP (SP3), Vista and Win 7 without success, the game insists on working correctly for me. Two Nvidia cards and one ATI.

For those of you with dual / quad-core CPU's you might try setting the affinity to a single core? See attached image.

Start the game - Alt-Tab to the desktop - right-click the taskbar - click Task Manager - click the Processes tab - right-click the "treasure_adventure_game_1.0.exe" - click Set Affinity . . . - uncheck all but CPU 0. Maximize the game and see if the flashing stops.

Also disconnect from the internet and temporarily disable your firewall. My Comodo firewall will block read / writes for some games unless I make the game exe a trusted program in the firewall. Yours firewall may not be as controlling as Comodo but it's something worth trying if all else fails.

Well, I tried everything that I could imagine before posting. And added several tries now. Nothing changed. Tried this. Actually, it was first thing that come in mind after reinstalling driver and using Win95 compatibility. No way. :) Tried this now. I disabled everything that I could, including firewall and antivirus. No changes.

I also tried to disable 3D-acceleration thru dxdiag (game started but not shows anything :). Lowering acceleration level thru control panel (game work first two ticks with white screen then went mad). Using DX-emulators like DXWind (no changes). Lowering color to 16 bit (funny effect, picture lose centering and cannot be stretched anymore - but still white-blinking). I put game in different disks and folders. No luck. Heck, I even downloaded author version from site! (Same thing - just as first S appears on screen, everything goes white).

And yes, I tried all individual game settings in NVidia tab. :)

Oh, and I changed monitor Hz to different numbers and resolution to 1024x768. Nothing.

I thought about Application Compatibility Toolkit for some time, then abandoned the idea. I don't remember that it has any dx-graphic related tunes.

Do you have more ideas? :)

That's about all the suggestions I have. Baffled as to why the game runs perfect on all three of systems I've tried it on.

Last thing I could suggest would be to try setting your resolution to other resolutions besides the default. Divine Divinity had trouble running certain resolutions and setting the res to a nominal res would sometimes fix the problem. i.e. A res of 1366 x 768 might not allow DD to display properly, setting to 1280 x 800 would sometimes fix that particular graphics problem. This is a long shot but . . . it could work . . .=)

Unfortunately, I tried this too. :D See previous post.

*Sigh* Well, it seems, I am out of luck. My last bet today will be sound... :D

Same here, XP SP3, newest drivers, GF 9600 GT. And I really want to play this.

Tried sound. It's not it too.

It cannot be my Russian Windows, right?!

It's always Russian Windows. :D

I'm kidding btw.

I bet it's more likely something with the game code as this issue appears on different versions of Windows whether it's XP or 7.

Well, Dadamh has WinXP. Me have XP too. I cannot say anything about ventuz, but Videotraf has the same XP SP3. So it means DX9. And it could be root of the problem. Not DX9 itself, but DX+specifical NVidia+maybe something else.

Try updating to DirectX 11?