Divinity 2 on Linux: Notes & Tips

Game Information

Title	Divinity II: Developer's Cut
Year	2012
Developer	Larian Studios NV
Graphics API
Audio API

Runtime Environment

• Wine Prefix: wine-proton-9.0-1-amd64
• DXVK Version: 2.7.1 (used to translate DirectX 9 to Vulkan)

Required Winetricks

To play the game and ensure movies work correctly, install the following via Winetricks:

• physx
• wmp9
• quartz
• openal
• corefonts
• tahoma

Audio Configuration

• DSOAL was installed in the syswow64 directory because dsound.dll is not loaded if placed in the game’s bin folder.
• Debugging audio issues: WINEDEBUG=+quartz,+dsound wine Divinity2.exe &> wine-audio.log

• Cut-scene playback had crackling and intermittent sound due to 48kHz sample rate.
  • Converted all videos to 44.1kHz to fix the issue.
  • Some videos had 5.1 surround sound and played well, but were also converted to 2-channel 44.1kHz for consistency.

Performance Tweaks

• Installed community patch: Div2Patch_v0.97_NoSetup to resolve slowdown and improve performance.
• Disabled FPS cap in game settings and maxed out all graphical options.
• Installed dgVoodoo2 wrapper for better compatibility.
  • Set anti-aliasing to 4x via dgVoodoo2 control panel.
  • Disabled in-game anti-aliasing.

Launcher Behavior

Lutris Launcher

• Cut-scenes play correctly using default GStreamer (likely version 1.22.12).
• Only physx from Winetricks appears necessary.

Heroic Launcher

• Game fails to play cut-scenes with system GStreamer (likely version 1.24).
• Works when passing these environment variables: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/deck/.local/share/gstreamer-1.0GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0=/home/deck/.local/share/gstreamer-1.0
  

Environment Notes

• Copied GStreamer libraries into /home/deck/.local/share for reuse with other games.
• Default LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set correctly in Lutris.
• wine-ge-8-26 fails to use GStreamer unless manually set in prefix settings: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/deck/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-26-x86_64/lib