Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - General Portrait issues, before and after respeccing.

So i just bought the game on Steam and am playing through DE version. My main is Lohse, and her portrait is partially white/grey covering entire face and hair area. I finally got to the ship and wanted to respec (only point distributions, not looks!), and now all portraits get bugged similarly - even when i just click the mirror then cancel everything. I have been googling all day, literally, trying multiple things, like: drivers, reinstalls, various mods including the ingame respec mod and a few others in the steam workshop (Fort Joy mirror+portable mirror). I wanted to play without mods initially but this is driving me simply crazy, and by the looks of things has been an issue since game launch.

Is there any way of fixing this? Is there a WORKING save editor that i can use to null out my selected abilities so i can redistribute and thus effectively getting a respec without botching all the portraits? I legitimately cant see who is who if i respec all 4 chars. What a disappointing and experience-depriving bug in an otherwise great game.

Washed out portraits can be caused by the program Overwolf, which adds an overlay to games. Disabling that should help, if you are using it.

Does the character show up properly in the inventory equipment pane? If not, try disabling Ambient Occlusion in the graphics options, to see if that gets the character to show up.
There is a known issue which can cause this problem, as well as the character portraits becoming faded / washed out after respecing.
This is probably related to graphics driver issues (re-using the mirror on another system fixes the portraits, and one person who reported this fixed it by reinstalling Windows), but the exact cause has not been determined.

Try resetting your graphics driver's 3D settings to default (right click an open area of the desktop to start the nvidia Control Panel or AMD Radeon Settings).

Check for updated graphics drivers. If you already have the latest, you could try a clean re-install, to see if that helps. See here or nvidia / AMD, for example.

I dont have Overwolf installed afaik (its not in my apps list under windows, programs), and Ambient occlusion is off (on doesnt do anything to them). The portraits arent washed out or faded (ive seen those while googling), but parts of the portrait (face and hair on Lohse) is completely greyed/whited out but the remaining graphics (neck, background) are fine. I've tried 3 different Geforce drivers (clean install with DDU, reset all settings, tweak settings ++) from the newest to about 1+ year old (425.xx). I've lost track on whats installed now in terms of mods: i had none, but ive thrown in "Achievements" from nexusmods, and then multiple variations of respec mirrors, including the in game gift bag one. Whatever i do, breaks all the portraits and the best case outcome so far is getting them to only look like low-res/noisy variations of the original...

I dont have another system and im not willing to reinstall my OS to try and fix this... its such a good game, but this really ruins the experience for me and is just so frustrating.

Did you try lowering or raising the graphics settings, or switching to Windowed or Fake Fullscreen display mode, to see if that would make a difference?

Maybe try doing a clean boot and then test respecing. Click Start, or hit WinKey-R, type in msconfig and hit enter; in the General tab, click Selective Startup, uncheck Load startup items (if required) and leave Load system services and Use original boot configuration options checked. Next, click on the Services tab, check the box to Hide all Microsoft services, then click the Disable All button (maybe make a note of which are currently enabled/disabled), then click OK and reboot the computer.
Run msconfig again to switch back to the normal boot configuration.


If you email supportdos2@larian.com with your save (or reply/PM/email a Dropbox or Google drive link, etc) I can check it here, and reset everything. If you didn't keep playing after trying the mods it would probably be better to use a save before then, otherwise include the modsettings.lsx file from your profile folder.
Each save is a folder in the '..\Documents\Larian Studios\Divinity Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition\PlayerProfiles\<ProfileName>\Savegames\Story' folder.
In Windows Explorer you can zip a file or folder by right clicking on it/them and selecting 'Send To | Compressed (zipped) Folder'.