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Revision as of 19:01, 9 July 2023

Beyond Divinity
Beyond Divinity cover
Developers
Larian Studios
Publishers
Retail (Germany, France, Benelux) Ubisoft
Retail (rest of Europe) Digital Jesters
Retail (North America) Hip Games
Digital Larian Studios
Engines
Divinity
Release dates
Windows April 27, 2004
macOS (OS X) November 15, 2013[1]
Reception
Metacritic 73
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Isometric, Bird's-eye view
Controls Direct control, Point and select
Genres RPG, ARPG
Art styles Realistic
Themes Fantasy
Series Divinity
Beyond Divinity on HowLongToBeat
Beyond Divinity on IGDB
Beyond Divinity on MobyGames
Beyond Divinity on Wikipedia
Divinity
Divine Divinity 2002
Beyond Divinity 2004
Divinity II: Ego Draconis 2009
Divinity II: Developer's Cut 2012
Divinity: Dragon Commander 2013
Divinity: Original Sin 2014
Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition 2015
Divinity: Original Sin II 2017
Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition 2018

General information

Official Larian forums
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce DRM protection; use Patch v1.49 to remove.
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
Anthology (Collector's Pack) release.
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Windows
Developer website
DRM-free
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename intro.mpg[citation needed]
  1. Go to Static in the installation folder.
  2. Delete or rename intro.mpg.

Fix low FPS on modern 64-bit systems

Use DxWnd
  1. Download DxWnd version 2.04.74 from SourceForge
  2. In DxWnd select Options - Expert Mode
  3. Create profile for div.exe.
  4. In Main tab uncheck Run in Window and check Fullscreen Only
  5. In Hook tab select Inject suspended process
  6. In Compat. tab check Limit available resources
  7. Save profile and run game through it

Patches

Patch v1.49 removes StarForce DRM and fixes various issues.
The Font Enlargement Patch fixes the tiny font size. It's most useful on high resolution monitors.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\config.div[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/219760/pfx/[Note 2]
Sound settings are stored in sound.cfg.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savegames[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/219760/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings (configtool.exe).
General settings (configtool.exe).

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Set in launcher.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

The HUD does not scale to match the resolution so may be too small at higher resolutions.
Set resolution in config.div[2]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Edit config.div.
  3. Set width and height to the desired resolution.

Input

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Ambient, Sound Effects, Music and Voice.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Polish
Windows only.
Russian
Windows only.
Spanish
Fan translation, download.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98 SE, ME, 2000 SP2, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.3 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7.0
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.1 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 9400M
AMD Radeon HD 6630M


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References