Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) General Questions on customisation and advice

Yesterday for some reason I got a serious urge to play Divine Divinity again, I haven't played it through since 2004 so I thought I'd read up on a few things (namely broken quests as I remember not being able to finish a few) before I began.

The first question I want to ask is, is it worth getting the remastered version on GOG instead of playing the original version with Patch 1.34. From another thread the differences don't seem that major:

The only thing that really looks worth it is the widescreen mode, it would be nice to play it in 1024x600 rather than 800x600 or 1024x768, but I'm not really sure it's worth buying it again for that.... But then again it is very cheap. The rest of the questions I have have mostly been asked before but I've never seen any solution to them so I thought I'd ask again in case someone has discovered something recently.

So here goes, is it possible to change the resolution manually to 1024x600? I can edit the config.div file and change it but it will still play it in 1024x768. Also is it possible to play in windowed mode?

I was also wondering if it's possible to edit a few minor things in the game. Someone asked before about changing a character's special move special move but not their appearance, so for example could you play as a warrior who can sneak and still looks like a warrior, I presume not as there probably is no animation for the warrior model to crouch. This thread on hex offsets has is some interesting information but only for changing both. Also is it possible to change the voice sets without changing appearance? (Just out of curiosity.)

This has been asked numerous time but not recently, is it possible to edit the portraits? Has anyone found where they're stored in the game? Or if not, can you change portraits to that of a different class?

Lastly is it possible to swap armour appearances? For example can I get the Armour of Larian to look like Dwarven Plate Armour? Messing with an old save file I naïvely swapping the hex string after the name in items.000 but that would probably have only changed attributes rather than appearance if it hadn't caused the game to crash. Or can I get my helmet to be invisible so I can still see the character's head? This thread on modding is interesting too but it's not quite what I'm looking for, it's mostly for attributes.

Have you tried other widescreen resolutions? The disk version will at least play in higher than supported standard resolutions (though opening the map may cause a crash, depending on the system and resolution), but I have not tried widescreen resolutions.

I don't think you can play in a windowed mode in Windows (you can if you can get it going under Linux).

AFAIK there is no way to change the appearance and special move or voice independently, and no way to change portraits or equipment graphics.


Welcome to the forum.

Thank you Raze. I didn't try any other resolutions to be honest, one thing I noticed though is it's possibly it's only the menu screen that's cut off, the game itself seems fine when I edit it but because the menu is cut off I've to Alt+F4 to exit.

I reckon it shouldn't be too difficult to change portrait to that of another class, or even to another one from within that class, using your thread on hex offsets to change character appearance doesn't affect the portrait. I haven't had any luck messing with the hex editor though.

And is it not possible to swap armour appearances?

I do love this game though (even if the humour in places isn't quite my taste). This is probably the fourth proper character I've started but I've only played it through once. Going to try a Survivor this time as I never have before.

I have not tried changing any armour appearances, and don't know if anyone else has, either.

After Lar appears in the Dwarven Bread in all dogs have become hostile, I didn't kill Lar, he attacks you when you go into the room but goes friendly again when you leave, unfortunately it still made all other dogs hostile (unless I killed a wolf nearby a dog at some point which is possible too).

Is there any way to stop this? I don't want to kill dogs (like in this thread I don't even want to kill wolves). I tried messing with the Charm Skill thinking that might help but even at level 4 that doesn't seem to do anything, I've tried it with lots of creatures and it puts a heart above them but nothing happens, they still attack me, that's not right is it?


Edit: Charm only works on humanoid creatures seemingly, not animals or undead.

There is no way within the game itself to undo this, AFAIK. I assume you don't have a recent save you can just reload?


There is a bug a couple people have run into with the download version, where NPCs that are suppose to be friendly are hostile. The fix in that case may work with dogs; I might possibly have time to check that tonight in an old save.

Help, the imps hate me!!

I do actually, but it's from a bit earlier, I've a save from outside the Dwarven Bread Inn at level 18 (before I met Lar) where dogs don't attack me. I'm level 23 now. I'll try that method there and see what happens, thanks.

Well it caused it to crash when I tried to change the Alignmentmanager part, is that section really large?

Anyway, I'm playing a Survivor so I'll just try and sneak past them and get over it, it's not exactly game changing!