Larian Studios Forums Divinity 2 - Ego Draconis (English) Technical problems Hardware accelerated PhysX on dedicated card

Hello.

I just purchased Divinity 2 via Steam and so far it looks promising. However the performance is absolutely terrible. It jitters and stutters all over the place.

Here are the stats for this particular PC (i've tried it on 2 separate PCs that i own with similar results): Intel Core i7 920, 6GBs Corsair 1600, Asus P6T Deluxe, EVGA GTX 285 & MSI GTS 250 (as a dedicated PhysX card), Creative X-Fi Elite Pro, Enermax Infiniti 720w with Windows XP. I imagine that is all that is relevant. The other, faster, PC has SLi enabled and is my usual gaming PC however this game seems to lack any native SLi support so I decided to try it on this PC.

This game, as I said, runs really, really slow and jittery. I just added the MSI GTS 250 today in hopes that a dedicated PhysX card, taking the load off the GTX 285, would help smooth things out. It's just as bad and this game does not seem to use that dedicated card at ALL. I monitored the 250s GPU usage and it never went above 0%! The card IS specified in my nVidia control panel as a dedicated PhysX card.

I want to know two things off the bat.

1: Does the Steam version incorporate SecuROM? I haven't seen any sign of it but I would like clarification on that.

2: Is there any way to enable the dedicated PhysX card to handle PhysX? Right now it seems all lumped onto the 285 or perhaps the CPU. As you seem to use your own PhysX variant I cannot view the PhysX Visual Indicator when enabled. It seems silly to have a dedicated card sitting there while the one does all the work. What's the deal with this?

Thank you.

I don't think the game uses PhysX enough that a dedicated card would make a huge difference in overall performance.


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There is no difference between PhysX calculations on CPU and on GPU in D2.

Yeah, after some experimenting and messing around with it I've come to that conclusion as well. That was just an attempt to try and understand why this game performs so poorly. *shrug* I've tried other suggestions found here and elsewhere and they have helped somewhat but it's still really jumpy.

Kinda wish I had researched this game first. I usually do. This was an impulse buy, which I don't normally do. :P

Oh well, that MSI 250 won't go to waste. Just another GPU to fold with!