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Posted March 03, 2019
I have just acquired a new pc (a Lenovo Ideapad with 2.6 ghz processor, 8 gigs of ram, 1 tb ssd and a radeon 4 graphics card), but Divine Divinity is not running properly. It chooses to render very slowly, and slows down even more when there is more than one panel open. I have done some investigating and discovered that this is a very common problem for players attempting to run the game on newer Windows devicese. Apparently, a ddraw compat adapter is the answer, but that seems to require that I be able to manipulate command line code. I am not anywhere near ready to do something like that to a live program. I did see that Glalxy gave me the option of adding a command line interface for this game, but I didn't think it was necessary. does anyone out there have a definitive answer for me on what I should do and why?
Post edited March 03, 2019 by Cullen12
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Posted March 03, 2019
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Cullen12: I have done some investigating and discovered that this is a very common problem for players attempting to run the game on newer Windows devices.
So... don't use 8 & 10 and use 7 instead?
Posted March 03, 2019
Try running it in software rendering mode.
I had similar problems running it on old windows 8 laptop, but it ran fine with software rendering.
Posted March 03, 2019
Did you try this one? They are saying in the topic the fix works on Win10 too.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/214170/discussions/0/35222218826646571/
Post edited March 03, 2019 by bela555
Posted March 03, 2019
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Cullen12: I have done some investigating and discovered that this is a very common problem for players attempting to run the game on newer Windows devices.
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rtcvb32: So... don't use 8 & 10 and use 7 instead?
Well, my friend, I am not going to load an outmoded operating system onto my computer just so that I can play a 16 year old game that I have played multiple times in that same 16 year period. Do you have anything constructive to say?
Posted March 03, 2019
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Cullen12: Well, my friend, I am not going to load an outmoded operating system onto my computer just so that I can play a 16 year old game that I have played multiple times in that same 16 year period. Do you have anything constructive to say?
Yeah, both XP and 7 still work very well and will for a while yet. So i don't see the problem with a more stable operating system that isn't forcing updates on you every week and is spying on you.

But don't take my thoughts and advice into consideration. Continue using an OS that will continually give issues.
Posted March 03, 2019
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bela555: Did you try this one? They are saying in the topic the fix works on Win10 too.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/214170/discussions/0/35222218826646571/
I found that specific thread before asking this question. It seemed to me that I maybe shouldn't trust something that didn't expressly state that it was compatible with the latest Windows 10 updates (I had to download another driver update for my Wircher file the other day that is common to that game because of it's penchant for refusing to load from the launch screen otherwise. That one, though, was far less complicated and simply worked). Also, I have yet to find any newer threads that mention this without the caveat that the download file offered is an experimental version of the existing program, and those threads are all at least four years old. I thank you for the help, though. Do you think that I should look into it anyway?
Post edited March 03, 2019 by Cullen12
Posted March 03, 2019
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molerat: Try running it in software rendering mode.
I had similar problems running it on old windows 8 laptop, but it ran fine with software rendering.
So, the problem is that it wants to be run from the CPU?
Post edited March 03, 2019 by Cullen12
Posted March 03, 2019
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molerat: Try running it in software rendering mode.
I had similar problems running it on old windows 8 laptop, but it ran fine with software rendering.
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Cullen12: So, the problem is that it wants to be run from the CPU?
It is worth a try, even if that's not the problem. Sometimes laptops try to "automatically" choose what to use to play a game, and they may fail spectacularly. My laptop wanted to run Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams on the integrated Intel processor, and it would crash every time I tried to load a level. I had to explicitly choose my 940MX (yeah, I know) to get the game to run.
Posted March 03, 2019
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Cullen12: So, the problem is that it wants to be run from the CPU?
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Crisco1492: It is worth a try, even if that's not the problem. Sometimes laptops try to "automatically" choose what to use to play a game, and they may fail spectacularly. My laptop wanted to run Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams on the integrated Intel processor, and it would crash every time I tried to load a level. I had to explicitly choose my 940MX (yeah, I know) to get the game to run.
Well, I'm afraid I must betray a greater degree of ignorance than perhaps I initially conveyed, because I am not certain how to actually do this. can you all maybe help me do that?
Posted March 03, 2019
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Crisco1492: It is worth a try, even if that's not the problem. Sometimes laptops try to "automatically" choose what to use to play a game, and they may fail spectacularly. My laptop wanted to run Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams on the integrated Intel processor, and it would crash every time I tried to load a level. I had to explicitly choose my 940MX (yeah, I know) to get the game to run.
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Cullen12: Well, I'm afraid I must betray a greater degree of ignorance than perhaps I initially conveyed, because I am not certain how to actually do this. can you all maybe help me do that?
I'm afraid I can't be much help with that; NVIDIA has its own program, but AMD seems to be more complicated. There's a guideline at http://www.abvent.com/support/faq/1606-how-to-change-graphics-card-settings-to-use-your-dedicated-gpu-with-artlantis-on-windows-computer.html.

You might also want to right click on the shortcut and see if you can choose "run with graphics processor" (or something similar) from the context menu. That doesn't change the default, but at least it would let you experiment.
Posted March 03, 2019
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molerat: Try running it in software rendering mode.
I had similar problems running it on old windows 8 laptop, but it ran fine with software rendering.
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Cullen12: So, the problem is that it wants to be run from the CPU?
I installed the game on my new win 10 machine to double check things.

The problem is that it runs on an old version of d3d or something that windows just doesn't do any more.
The game itself has the option to run in software mode though. Go to where you installed the game.

In galaxy (if you used that) click more, then manage installation, then show folder.
If you installed manually I think GOG installers default to something like C:\GOGGames or something like that, and then it will be under a folder called Divine Divinity.
If you installed manually and have a shortcut on desktop, you can right click on that, and click properties, and then open file location.

In that folder there is a file called "configtool.exe".

Run it.
In the middle area of the box that pops it will have a selection for "New rendering system:" and the choice of direct 3d, or software.
Pick software.

Apply and close, it will probably launch the game at this point.

The game, after doing this, ran perfectly fine for me.
Posted March 03, 2019
What about This ?
Posted March 03, 2019
right click on the launcher > Compatibility > Check the "Run this prog in compatibility mode for: > Chose Win 7

i think this may help.
Posted March 03, 2019
There are several possible fixes here (assuming you're using Windows 10).

1) Right click on the icon that starts DD and go into Compatibility mode and try running it under WIndows XP compatibility.

2) Launch the video tester and try using the software renderer instead of your beast of a video card. The CPU's of today outperform the video cards from back then so handling it on software renderer instead of on the video card should be fine.

3) And then there is the option to use Legacy Modes on a newer graphics card but I can't recall right now if that's an option under the Windows 10 gaming section or under the specific graphics card software itself.
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