Beyond Divinity

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		StarForce DRM protection; use Patch V. 1.49 to remove.
GOG.com
Humble Store
Steam

Essential improvements[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Delete/rename intro.mpg^{[citation needed]}
Go to `Static` in the installation folder. Delete or rename `intro.mpg`.

Fix low FPS on modern 64-bit systems[edit]

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

Patches[edit]

Patch V. 1.49 removes StarForce DRM and fixes various issues.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\config.div^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/219760/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Sound settings are stored in sound.cfg.

Save game data location[edit]

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

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

General settings (configtool.exe).

Graphics feature	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

Widescreen resolution[edit]

The HUD does not scale to match the resolution so may be too small at higher resolutions.

Set resolution in config.div^[2]
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Edit `config.div`. Set `width` and `height` to the desired resolution.

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Audio settings[edit]

Audio settings.

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

Localizations

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

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2.3 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9.0c compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.7.0
Processor (CPU)	2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2.1 GB
Video card (GPU)	AMD Radeon HD6630M Nvidia GeForce 9400M

Notes

↑ ^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).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/219760/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (219760) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

[gamedir-2] 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).

[Proton_path_note-3] 2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/219760/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (219760) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Mac Game Update: 34 New Additions ● GOG.com

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Developers

	Larian Studios
Engines
	Divinity
Release dates
Windows	April 27, 2004
macOS (OS X)	November 15, 2013^[1]

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