Game doesn't make it past launch on Windows 10.

[Banana Unlimited]

I've seen some other discussion topics where someone recommended searching for a community patch or installing linux to get the game running, but that defeats the purpose of buying a game off of steam to just have it *work*.

Has Larian discontinued support for this game? or is there a Windows 8 and beyond patch or a chance at one in the future?

I understand that it's an old game, and this isn't a 1-star review so I don't need hate in return. I just want to know if there's an official solution, if I should just return the game until there is one, or if there's some easy way to reconfigure the game files to make it work without downloading 3rd-party software.

[rusty_dragon]

>Has Larian discontinued support for this game?

Yes, they did, even more - steam build is more early than latest patch, because they've lost a source code.

The reason why this game doesn't work under Win10 is not Larian, but Microsoft who dropped support for older games/API. And even GOG has lots of issues making old games running under Win10, lots of games not running there at all.

Game works perfectly under linux with Proton. So maybe it's time to start using linux for oldgaming.

[Banana Unlimited]

Thanks, that's a shame. I'll decide if I'm going to return the game or try and play it through an emulation layer at some point this week, but I'll probably be returning it at this rate.

[fericfirefeather]

I am playing it on win 10 at first I when are started the game in the start menus was unuseable becuse it was offcenter causeing most the options unclicable but after i lowerd the zoom in % under windows disply settings from 250 to 100 the proble was fixed. I have moved it up to 200% and still no issue

[rusty_dragon]

Originally posted by Axoren:

Thanks, that's a shame. I'll decide if I'm going to return the game or try and play it through an emulation layer at some point this week, but I'll probably be returning it at this rate.

Why not to try dualboot with linux? It's a nobrainer at this point - install linux from a stick, install steam there, and install/run game with one click.
The only problem is to learn how to install linux in dual boot.

[Whateverman]

Originally posted by rusty_dragon:

Originally posted by Axoren:

Thanks, that's a shame. I'll decide if I'm going to return the game or try and play it through an emulation layer at some point this week, but I'll probably be returning it at this rate.

Why not to try dualboot with linux? It's a nobrainer at this point - install linux from a stick, install steam there, and install/run game with one click.
The only problem is to learn how to install linux in dual boot.

... and learning how to use Linux :p

aka. the problem's pretty big if you're not willing to spend a few days trying to run an old game. Just sayin.

Yeah, I've spent plenty of time trying to get old games running on a newer machine. 98% of the time, the people who offer help and suggestion make tricky problems sound easy to solve, because they were happy to spend lots of time on the problem. I know that for some games, I was also happy to do so. However, it's misleading to claim getting them to run was easy - and when someone suggests a new OS, I say &*^! off, gimme back my money.

I'm with Axoren on this one. If Steam is selling games I can't run on my machine as it's built (with maybe a .config change or two), they should be letting the customer base know this before the purchase is made. Plain and simple.

[rusty_dragon]

Originally posted by Whateverman:

Originally posted by rusty_dragon:

Why not to try dualboot with linux? It's a nobrainer at this point - install linux from a stick, install steam there, and install/run game with one click.
The only problem is to learn how to install linux in dual boot.

... and learning how to use Linux :p

aka. the problem's pretty big if you're not willing to spend a few days trying to run an old game. Just sayin.

Yeah, I've spent plenty of time trying to get old games running on a newer machine. 98% of the time, the people who offer help and suggestion make tricky problems sound easy to solve, because they were happy to spend lots of time on the problem. I know that for some games, I was also happy to do so. However, it's misleading to claim getting them to run was easy - and when someone suggests a new OS, I say &*^! off, gimme back my money.

With Proton you literally can install linux, install steam on it, click download and play. That simple.
You don't need bleeding edge drivers for old games.

There is no need to learn anything about Linux here.

Originally posted by Whateverman:

I'm with Axoren on this one. If Steam is selling games I can't run on my machine as it's built (with maybe a .config change or two), they should be letting the customer base know this before the purchase is made. Plain and simple.

There is a section on Steam Store Page that is called System Requirements. It serves this very same purpose. For older games you rely on community: googling or asking at forums.
I've seen lots of requests similar to Axoren's recently. They are coming from mobile phone users who got accustomed getting warning when they want to buy/install app. This tipe of approach won't work for PC, because it's a range of completely different hardware/software setups. People just need to learn how this problem handled on PC.

[Ven]

Nah dude, the absolute infantismal amount of effort it would take for steam to add a warning to the MAIN store page of a game that doesnt actually work without extra work on the customers end leaves no excuse for this constant ♥♥♥♥.

[rusty_dragon]

Originally posted by Bladed Thesis:

Nah dude, the absolute infantismal amount of effort it would take for steam to add a warning to the MAIN store page of a game that doesnt actually work without extra work on the customers end leaves no excuse for this constant ♥♥♥♥.

Except it does work without effort on the systems it was made for.
Why don't you go back to your mobile gaming? If it's so hard for you to check 16 y.o. game's forums to know if it runs on your system of choice.

[Hilgert Olben]

This game works under Windows 10. As someone above wrote: Change the compatibility of the .exe file in the game folder on your harddrive to "Windows XP (SP3)" and choose "Software" in the game's configuration tool (you get that option when you start the game from your Steam library).

On top of that, choose the setting "1024x768" in this configuration tool. This ensures that the game is properly shown on your screen. I wasn't able to make it run in windowed mode yet, but in full screen it seems to work just fine now.

There is no need to install Linux in order to play this game. I suggest to unmark that Linux-reply, so that people finding this thread don't get the wrong idea.

TL;DR: I am playing this game on Windows 10.

[MikeBob2013]

Originally posted by Hilgert Olben:

This game works under Windows 10. As someone above wrote: Change the compatibility of the .exe file in the game folder on your harddrive to "Windows XP (SP3)" and choose "Software" in the game's configuration tool (you get that option when you start the game from your Steam library).

On top of that, choose the setting "1024x768" in this configuration tool. This ensures that the game is properly shown on your screen. I wasn't able to make it run in windowed mode yet, but in full screen it seems to work just fine now.

There is no need to install Linux in order to play this game. I suggest to unmark that Linux-reply, so that people finding this thread don't get the wrong idea.

TL;DR: I am playing this game on Windows 10.

I just installed Divine Divinity to my Windows 10 setup and I wanted to confirm that (so far) your advice works - except that I haven't had to change the game's compatability setting.

I did use the configuration tool to change the screen resolution (to 800 x 600 due to my poor eyersight) and also to set the rendering setting to 'software.'

So far the game seems to load up and play just fine (I adjusted some audio settings, selected a character, and spent a few minutes exploring the first couple of areas) - but if I have any issues further in, I'll take a look at the compatability setting and report back.

Thank you.

[anatagamu]

Just for the record it worked out of the box for me on Windows 10, year 2018 machine. No issues. It seems that some users need to play around with compatibility settings while some don't. Just want to make that clear for any gamers that are considering buying the game and reading about it "not working on Windows 10".

[MikeBob2013]

I've played for a total of 13 hours so far and I've experienced 2 in-game 'freezes' which necessitated my use of Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up Task Manager and quit the game that way.

The first of these occurred less than an hour into the game (back on Jan 5), and the second one was yesterday (around the 12 hour mark, I'd say - both times I was not in combat, just exploring), so I ran Win 10's compatability wizard to see what it would come up with.

There doesn't seem to be a way to choose Win XP SP3 compatability (as suggested above) but after a few minutes, the compatability wizard advised me to switch to Windows 8 compatability (the only option given aside from canceling outright).

I've never used Win 8 and I've only heard bad things about it, really, but I decided to give it a try anyway and, so far so good.

Apart from these 2 freezes, the game has performed pretty much flawlessly so far on my Windows 10 machine, and the graphics look good at all the resolutions I've tried (800 x 600, 1024 x 768, and 1920 x 1080).

I've gone with 1024 x 768 (only because I desparately need new glasses), but I think it really looks best @ 1080p.

If the game bugs out in some new way (or if it starts to lock up more frequently), I'll ditch the Windows 8 compatability mode, but for the time being it seems okay the way it is.