Divinity II: Developer's Cut

Divinity
Divine Divinity	2002
Beyond Divinity	2004
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
Divinity: Fallen Heroes	TBA

Key points

Previously released as Divinity II: Ego Draconis and Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga.

Good PC version with many graphical options

In-game option for anti-aliasing does nothing

Micro-stuttering on Windows Vista/7.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 8 DRM.
GamersGate		SecuROM PA DRM
GOG.com
Humble Store
Steam

Game data[edit]

Configuration file location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Divinity 2\Profile
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/219780/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Divinity 2\Savegames\
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/219780/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud		Syncs save games.

Video settings[edit]

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Use Borderless Gaming.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Separate options for terrain only and full AF
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Syncs to the FPS cap.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Frame rate cap is fully configurable, but main menu is always capped at 30 FPS.^[1] See Frame rate (FPS).

Windowed[edit]

Set windowed mode^{[citation needed]}

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Edit graphicoptions.xml.
Change Fullscreen="1" to Fullscreen="0".

Anti-aliasing (AA)[edit]

In-game option for Screen Space Anti-Aliasing does nothing in Ego Draconis, Flames of Vengeance, and the Developer's Cut.

Use SMAA Injector^{[citation needed]}

Download SMAA Injector and extract the files.
Move the files from D3D9 to <path-to-game>\bin\
For the Steam version, open injector.ini and change the line weird_steam_hack = 0 to weird_steam_hack = 1.
Launch a game.

Frame rate (FPS)[edit]

Change FPS cap^{[citation needed]}

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Edit graphicoptions.xml.
Change FPSCap="XX" where XX is the desired cap.

Input settings[edit]

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

Mouse Y-axis inversion[edit]

Allow inverted mouse in dragon form^{[citation needed]}

Download Y-Axis Hotfix from here
Go to <path-to-game>\bin\
Rename Divinity2.exe and Divinity2-debug.exe to something else.
Extract the hotfix versions of Divinity2.exe and Divinity2-debug.exe.
Start the game.
Go to Control options.
Enable inverted Y-axis in Dragon Form.

Audio settings[edit]

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software.
Subtitles		Always enabled.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		DirectSound3D.^[2]

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian
Spanish

VR support[edit]

3D modes	Native	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Divinity 2 - Developers Cut & Dragon Knight Saga: 3D Vision Fix.
vorpX		G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum containing important settings hints.

Issues fixed[edit]

Low frame rate[edit]

Enable timeslice shadow updates^{[citation needed]}

Enable timeslice shadow updates for a large frame rate increase with no loss to video quality.

Micro-stuttering on Windows Vista/7[edit]

Disable desktop composition on launch^{[citation needed]}

May fix micro-stuttering for some

May cause alt-tabbing issues

Go to <path-to-game>\bin\
Right click on Divinity2.exe and choose Properties.
Go to the Compatibility tab and enable Disable desktop composition.

Lower FPS cap to 55fps^{[citation needed]}

Open Divinity 2
Go to advanced graphics options
Enable FPS cap and set to 55fps or ([refresh rate] - 5)fps

Lower mouse polling rate

The game engine drops mouse input if it is too frequent
In your mouse control panel, lower the polling rate to 125Hz

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware[edit]

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	DirectSound3D

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP3, Vista
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz	Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB (XP) 2 GB (Vista, 7, 8)	2 GB (XP) 4 GB (Vista, 7, 8)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	15 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 7600 256 MB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce 8800 512 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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>/219780/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (219780) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

[Proton_path_note-1] 1.0 ^1.1 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>/219780/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (219780) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[2] New 120Hz Games Report

[3] Divinity 2 OpenAL Soft HRTF (DSOAL)

[Note 1]

[1]

[2]

Developers

	Larian Studios
Engines
	Gamebryo
Release dates
Windows	October 18, 2012