Divinity 2 on Linux: Notes & Tips

Game Information

Title	Divinity II: Developer's Cut
Year	2012
Developer	Larian Studios NV
Graphics API	Direct3D 9.0c
Audio API	DirectSound

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

Additionally, install the following system component:

• PhysX-9.17.0524-SystemSoftware — required for proper game functionality.

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

Video Playback Fix

• If movies have crackling audio, reencoding the videos can fix the problem.
• Cut-scene playback had issues due to 48kHz sample rate. Converting videos to 44.1kHz resolves this.
• Some videos with 5.1 surround sound were converted to 2-channel 44.1kHz for consistency.

Additional Note:

Since the game has problems playing in-game videos, I reencoded the videos and uploaded them to Archive.org.

After downloading the archive, extract it into the Data folder and the in-game video audio should play correctly.

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-1.0

GST_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

Downloads

• Community patch: Div2Patch v0.97 NoSetup
• PhysX System Software 9.17.0524
• Reencoded video folder (Archive.org)

Screenshots

Divinity II - Main Menu

Divinity II - Gameplay

Divinity II - In-game Menu