Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Technical Problems Negative 500000 resistence

All of a sudden I realize I have negative over 500000 resistence to poison, lightning, etc.? What gives. Went back a few hours worth of play time to a previous saved game and this is not the case? Any help would be great. Thanks

Hi Peabo,

Have you downloaded the latest patch? If not, here it is:

http://larian.com/Site/english/divinity/fix.html

Thanks.

This is what we call the resistances bug. It usually happens when you unequip an item that had a magic barrier bonus.

There are a few options.
1. instal the patch as in the post above.
2. If you have a free skill point, put one in magic barrier.

But with the latest patch it should be fixed. Good luck in your travels.

I seem to be having the same problem, but I patched the game to 1.0034a before starting to play. I have 4 points into magic barrier, but when I unequip and equip a belt I have with the magic barrier skill it drops my resistances another 5 points. They are down to about -35 now. Any way to fix this?

If you have Windows XP, did you install the patch from an account with administrative privileges? (If you only have one account, it would).

Yeah, using XP and used an admin account. Also Main Menu in game lists version as 1.0034a in the bottom right hand corner.

System specs if it makes any difference:

Mobo: MSI k7n4g (NForce 2 integrated audio, video, and network)
Processor: Atlhon XP 2500+ (Barton Core)
Video: Geforce4 MX (integrated) 64 Mb
Sound: integrated
Ram: 512Mb
OS: XP
27 Gb free on hard drive with game installed.

Did you have an anti-virus program running, or something, that could possibly have interfered with the patch installation? Maybe you could try re-installing it?

Long shot, but try deleting all of the files in the '..\Divine Divinity\Run\Dynamic' folder.
This folder is used as a cache for the game. Files are created / copied there from the save game folder when you load, and written / copied from that folder when you save a game. The files will be re-created as required the next time you start Divinity. If there was a corrupt file in that folder, deleting the files should fix the problem.

You could use DAD's item editor (or from Kiya's site, with description) to turn a crappy belt into the equivalent of your current belt, but without the skill bonus. Hopefully that would at least stop your resistances from dropping further.

Divinity adds the Magic Barrier skill bonus when you learn a level, rather than calculating it each time the game is loaded, so you can boost your resistances back up using iZakaroN's SaveEditor (also listed at Kiya's site above, with description). Remove the skill points you put into Magic Barrier, then load the game, max Magic Barrier and save. Repeat until your resistances are back to where they should be.

I tried reinstalling the patch but that didn't seem to help. I grabbed the savegame editor, so I'll try that next.

Also a correction, I have 5 points in magic barrier. I think that might be why I had this problem. It lloks like each time I remove the belt it takes away 5 resistance points, but when I putit back on I don't get them back because I already have 5 levels of magic barrier. Can anyone else verify this?

I used the save game editor to fix my resistances and found out what seems to be causing the problem. I tested equipping and unequipping the belt with with different skill levels in magic barrier. There wasn't a problem until I had 5 skill points in it. When I put the belt on when I already had 5 points in magic barrier, it raised all of my resistances by 5, but when I removed the belt, it lowered all of my resistances by 10 for a net loss of 5. Does anyone want to verify if this is just a problem for me or if this is something that can affect anyone?

That's good to know. I don't recall anyone else having this problem, but then that would require finding good equipment with a specific skill bonus (I may have found equipment with a Magic Barrier bonus, but not any that I used). The bug fixed by the patch was when removing something with a Magic Barrier bonus without having otherwise learnt the skill.