I've got the feeling that my pc has trouble running divinity 2 while it shouldn't.
At the moment i'm running the game on medium settings but i think my pc should be able to run it at higher settings.

my pc: 2.33GHz quad core, 3gig ram, nvidia geforce 9800 gt (2 of them), plenty of free hd space too.

think i listed the important specs now. Am i expecting to much of my system or could there be something wrong preventing me from playing the game at a higher quality?

as soon as i turn the texture quality to high from medium (rest of the settings still on medium) the game starts to lag heavily.

kinda hoping i'm just expecting to much of my pc

I think you need to clean your computer
1 year ago I couldn"t play Diablo 2 on high settings
After they clean my computer from viruses,errors and many other crap it work perfectly

AFAIK, the game has bad support for X-fire/SLI. Try to disable SLI.

I have a similar issue, the performance difference between Medium and High is enormous.
On Medium I have a VERY stable FPS of 55-60 (almost always stuck on 60, capped with v-sync, it rarely ever drops to 55), while on High it goes from 20 up to max 35, while most of the time it's around 25.

My hardware: AMD Phenom 2.6GHz Quadcore, 4GB RAM, ATI HD4870 1GB GDDR5.

I think it's because of my CPU though, I'm pretty sure my FPS will become alot higher and more stable on High if I just replace my CPU by a 3.0GHz or more.
So to the OP: I think the mainissue is your CPU, since the game most likely won't fully benifit from a Quadcore anyways, so even a 3.0GHz Dualcore would give you a way better performance (I'm not 100% sure though, just my guess, because games like this are usually very CPU intensive).

i'll try disabling SLI for divinity 2 then.
i'll report back if it got better: )

ok so i just disabled SLI and tried the game in high and extreme settings.
high runs fine but extreme is lagging as bad as high was with SLI enabled, high is working smooth without SLI though.

i don't suppose SLI support will be added in a patch, since it's pretty much a complete rewrite, right? or am i misinformed?

No, AFAIK. Master version is done alerady and it's very unlikely there will be further patches.
But ofc, knowing Larian and the fact how they supports DD - who knows... :P

I don't know if anyone with a "normal" pc nowadays can pull off extreme. It requires the very latest processor technology, so it's more about raw speed (e.g. Intel i7 proc running at very high speed). I know you have a quad core, but combined power does not work in this case. (Technically we're rendering all trees as meshes in extreme. In other settings, we're lodding the trees, so if they're too far off, you see billboards which don't require too many drawcalls.)

So it's not even about GPU, it's CPU

This is exactly what I was trying to imply with my post, since games like this usually are very CPU intensive and there are barely any games out there which benifit from a Quadcore, even Dualcore support is still pretty rare (though it's appearing alot more frequently these days).

So a new CPU is better than a new graphics card ?

That depends, if you have a video card around the gen of Nvidia 8800 or better or an ATI HD3000-4000 series or better (with more than 512mb VRAM) and a CPU with less than 2.6GHz (talking about dualcore in this case, stock speed), you're indeed better off getting a new CPU than a new GPU for this kind of games.

Just for some statistic:
Well, I have C2Q too (Q9450), and game runs pretty flawlessly on Extreme settings. Mostly 50FPS, just sometimes 30.

Q9450 is 2.66 GHz, may be newer/faster than OP's proc. It's not just CPU speed, it's the entire architecture around it. E.g. your 9450 has a bus speed of 1333MHz, the 6000 series is lower than that. It's these little things that can often make a huge difference. If it's not that, might even be file fragmentation or programs running in the background or driver versions, etc.

Genky: you're right, but I'd still recommend higher GPU's than nVidia 8 series and ATi HD3000 series.

In my case it's an 8600 GT with 256 MB RAM, plus an ...



I fear that's no wonder my game playes so slow ...

Well, just to be honest: I'm not very technical about hardware and stuff, but these are just my own experiences, etc. and for games of this generation, 512MB VRAM has become a minimum if you want to be able to run the games at a decent FPS.


Your CPU isn't that bad, but you have to remember, what me and ForkTong mentoined, that games like this are very CPU intensive and will more likely require a higher-end CPU than a GPU (though doesn't mean a good GPU isn't recommended too), you could (at own risk, only if you actually know what you're doing, this could kill your CPU if done wrong) overclock your CPU to see if it improves your FPS at all.

In your case I personally think you would benefit more from a GPU upgrade than a CPU upgrade (at least, if you manage to overclock your CPU a bit so you can get it on par).

Ofcourse, all the things I'm saying are just recommendations, I don't know what you can afford and stuff, but with your current hardware I'm afraid you'll have alot of trouble running this game properly, if you can run it at all.


Those 2 gens were the very minimum that I recommended, since those were kinda the first 'real' high-end GPU's back in the time when they were still new.

EDIT:
Oh and a question from me to you ForkTong:
Do you think I would get a major improvement if I upgrade from my current CPU, an AMD Phenom 2.2GHz (OCed @ 2.6GHz), the weakest type of X4 Phenom, to a Phenom II 3.4GHz (stock speed, will probably OC to to around 3.9), with my other hardware being 4GB DDR2 RAM and an ATI HD4870 1GB GDDR5?
Since right now I'm running on Medium with a rocksolid FPS of 60 (almost) all the time, though once I change the settings to High it drops all the way to 25-35.
Because I was going to upgrade to that with Christmas.

Yeh, I know. Also, it has support for SSE4.


btw, talking about a driver version: I still recommend 182.50 for NV users. No such sluttering as on 19x.

Hi

I also have big performance problems with game. I've installed game on three different machines:
1. C2D E8200 2.66, GF 8800GT, RAM 4GB, Vista 64bit,
2. C2D P8600 2,4, ATI 3650, RAM 4GB, Vista 32bit,
3. C2D E8500 3.16, GF GTX285, RAM 8GB, Vista 32bit,
and on all of them game was almost impossible to play because of lagging. But these are not graphical lags because when I was measuring it was about 40-60 FPS all the time.
First I thought that it is my machine(1) fault but the same problem was on two other. I've checked all possible graphics settings configuration. I've also read topic about performance problems in German section of this forum. I've tried all tips from there (installing in default location, setting process priority to high and of course newest graphical drivers) and I've even defragmented my HDD and made general system cleanup. No changes... it impossible to play because of lags. These lags are especially intensive when leaving or approaching bulding.
I can add that I have polish language version and game shows that this is v1.015.82.
While looking for solution I've noticed that many people have these performance problems with polish version and they claim that when they earlier played german version performance was ok.

Looking for any suggestions (or patch which will fix this?).

wuit, I have no clue what 'lag' you're talking about, your 3rd computer is better than mine and I never experienced anything similar to what you describe, could you be more specific or show us a screenshot/video where we can see what exactly you're talking about?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tre-mV0DFA

Hope that quality is good enough to see how the game is lagging. While recording this movie Fraps was showing 25-35 FPS (it was recorded on the first machine mentioned in my previous post).

You mean the 'shocking/jumping/stuttering' of the screen right?
Are you sure you got the latest version of both your Nvidia and DirectX drivers?

Yes.

Erm, decrease Shadow quality. That`s what kept me from playing it on Extreme.

the stuttering in the vid shown is exactly what i have.
i'll put shadow quality on lowest and check if i can put textures higher

I've set all the graphic settings to low and disabled those which can be disabled. The game is stuttering all the time no matter what my graphical setting are.

I'm currently thinking of buying an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4860e.

Graphics cards ... why must there be so many of them ?

I have to note that micro stuttering is inherent to the GameBryo engine... Morrowind, Oblivion & Fallout 3 all suffer from it. It can never be completely removed.

Did you even look at wuit his video?
I would consider it unplayable, the way he has to play, his screen basically 'jumps/hops' every second.
I don't have his issue though and his hardware is better than mine on his 3rd setup.

Some info about sluttering

Too bad On the xbox360 you obviously don't have any settings to tamper with and although it's not as bad as in the video, the game seems to be 'loading' (or whatever the stuttering is) constantly and you sometimes get hickups.
They're not really that bad but still kind annoying at times, added to the choppy animations of NPC's and the game feels choppy as a whole. It's not THAT bad, but still noticable at times, if you know what I mean.
Still not enough to bring me out of the experience though but it would be nice if it was fixed

So I want to ask what I can do to fix slowdowns in Divinity2?
No matter if I change settings to max or to low it's still lagging.
I'm playing english version 1.013xx
My pc:
AMD 6000+ 3.0 Ghz
2GB RAM
GF 8600GT 256MB
WIN XP SP2

I know that my GPU is a little weaker than recommended GPU with 512 but even so I should be able to play at medium settings easily.
So any solutions?
Thx in advance

Im running all smooth on my quad 3ghz - 4 gb - radeon 4780 - windows 7 - on extreme, im just wondering if it's me or the game that makes things blurry, for example the cut-scenes with damian on a distance his armor looks great but in the scene its all blurry when he gets close.

what version of the game do you play?

I wouldn't say that. I have the same graphics card, and it appears to me as if 256 MBs were a bit too few. It runs, okay, but it isn't as good as I had - personally - hoped.

First thing: Turn the shadows off. They consume imho far too much "calculation power".

It's called low-res ;<
Textures are low-res to prevent heavy performance hit and vram usage.

Well I tried to turn all settings off (especially shadows and AA) and details to LOW and still it is lagging.

I am having stuttering problems too. I get decent fps but every 5 seconds or so when running the game hiccups. Making it almost unplayable in an annoying way.
I have lowered all settings and the problem is still there.
It doesn't seem like a performance issue but a problem with the code.

Dragon Age uses this 'trick' as well... models look great but environmental textures look 10 years old (not that I care).

That said, though, Damian's armor isn't low res for me but it used to be in the German pre 1.02 patch... maybe somebody can post screenshots?

I can see the SAME performance with all the graphic options low, and with all the options in hight.
20-30 fps Cities and Forests. (too low)
30-40 inside buildings.
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The problem here is not the hardware. I think it a problme of compatibility with some processors.

I also have the stuttering problems and it is the same as in the youtube video.
I have tried all drivers and all the other things that have been mentioned before on the forum but nothing seems to work. The strange thing is, its allready there in the menu. the mouse moves glitchy and well anything moving is basicly stuttered slightly. Whether I put the graphics on high or low, it makes no difference. Its just glitchy all over the place. I wished Larian would post something of an indication on their progress in this matter:)

Running:

Athlon 4600+ 2.40GHz
EN260GTX 800 and something:P
3.00 Gb RAM
Windows 7 86x

Same here I wish it was fixed, I've never encountered this kind of behaviour in any other game... ever.