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===================================================================== Divine Divinity V1.29 Thank you for purchasing this game! ===================================================================== ********************************************************** -> Installation <- Please perform the following steps to install the game: 1. Insert the Divine Divinity Install CD 1 into your CD ROM drive. 2. If your CD ROM drive's Autoplay function is enabled, the installation will begin automatically. If the automatic installation program does not start, launch the program by double-clicking the Setup.exe file in the root directory of the Divine Divinity Install CD 1. 3. Follow the on-screen instructions of the installation program. -> Additional remark <- To view the manual (located in the folder "Manual" on the Divine Divinity Install CD 1) and the PDF file "Story.pdf", it is necessary to have the Acrobat Reader installed. The Acrobat Reader is included on the Divine Divinity Install CD 1. To install Acrobat Reader from the Divine Divinity Install CD 1, do the following: Click on the Start button, then click on "Run...". In the new window that opens, click on the "Browse..." button. Another window will open. At the top of this window is a pull down menu labeled "Look in:". Click on the down arrow and then click on your CD-ROM-drive. Next, double-click on the "Adobe" folder. A list of executable files will appear in the window. Click on the file called "RP505ENU.EXE" (to select it) and then click the "Open" button. That window will close, and you will be back to the "Run" window. Click on the "OK" button. Now, follow the installation instructions on the screen. When the Setup begins, click "Next". Click "Yes" to the Software Agreement. The next item is "Choose Destination Location." Click on "Browse..." if you want to install Adobe Acrobat Reader to a different folder than the standard folder or click on "Next" to start the installation. Now you are done installing the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Acrobat« Reader 5.0 system requirements Windows, Intel« Pentium« processor, Microsoft« Windows« 95 OSR 2.0, Windows 98 SE, Windows Millennium, Windows NT« 4.0 with Service Pack 5, or Windows 2000, 64 MB of RAM, 24 MB of available hard-disk space. Acrobat« Reader Copyright ⌐ 2001 Adobe System Incorporated. All rights reserved. ********************************************************** INFO - CONTENTS I. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS II. UPDATES, PATCHES, AND GENERAL TROUBLESHOOTING III. MAIN GAME MENU OPTIONS IV. MANUAL ERRATA AND CLARIFICATIONS V. PERFORMANCE TIPS VI. GAMEPLAY HINTS I. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS System requirements for Divine Divinity are the following: CPU:Pentium II 450 MHz or higher RAM:at least 64 MB RAM, recommended 128 MB RAM Hard disc:at least 1,7 GB (minimum installation), recommended 2,6 GB (maximum installation) Graphic card:at least SVGA 640x480 Pixels, 16 bit Color depth, 8 MB Video RAM. 3D accelerator cards compatibel with Glide or DirectX 8.1 are supported. Sound card:100% DirectX compliant sound card Operating system: Windows 98/2000 Service Pack 2/ME/XP; DirectX 8.1 or better. If you encounter problems after installing DirectX drivers under Windows98, please contact Microsoft's technical support: http://support.microsoft.com II. UPDATES, PATCHES, AND GENERAL TROUBLESHOOTING The following lists the most common problems. When referring to "the config tool", we mean you should exit Divine Divinity and start ConfigTool.exe, located in Divine Divinity's install directory. Changing video/sound options can be done during the game. Press esc to pop up the main game menu, select options, then video/sound. Problem: After I save the game, the game is frozen Cause: The save game function auto-pauses the game. Solution: unpause the game by pressing space Problem: Black squares appear around the imagery in the game Cause: Your video card does not support color keying. Solution: Turn on the alpha bit in the configuration tool. Problem: I get all kinds of graphical artefacts. Cause: Fog is not being supported by your driver/color keying is failing. Solution: Turn on the alpha bit in the configuration tool. Also, switch off fog in the video options. Problem: My mouse cursor becomes very slow when parts of the interface pop up in the game. Cause: Color keying is slow on your video drivers. Solution: Turn on the alpha bit in the configuration tool. Problem: The game runs very slow on my system. Cause: There can be multiple reasons. Solution: 1) download and install the latest drivers of your video card 2) check the chapter "PERFORMANCE TIPS" above. 3) If your graphics card is a Voodoo card, try using glide instead of direct3D. 4) If none of the above solutions solve your graphic problems, it could be that your video card is not compatible with Divine Divinity. Select either DirectDraw or software in the configuration tool (whichever runs faster). Problem: The cinematics do not play well. The cinematics are more like a slide show, block or even exit the application. Cause: the Bink player cannot play the movie optimally Solution: 1) download and install the latest version of the binkw32.dll: www.radgametools.com 2) download and install the latest drivers of your video card 3) on the ATI Radeon cards, setting the monitor refresh rate to 60 Hz solved the issue: a) right click on your desktop, select properties, settings b) click the advanced button, and choose monitor c) set the refresh frequency to 60 Hz, test and apply 4) if nothing helps, prevent the movies to run by deleting all files *.bik from the Static sub folder in Divine Divinity's install directory. You will not be able to see to cinematics, but you will be able to play the game. Problem: None of the above solves my problem Solution: Find the latest updates on information and patches for Divine Divinity on www.larian.com or www.divinedivinity.com. III. MAIN GAME MENU OPTIONS In this menu you can: 1) Resume: quit this menu and return to the game 2) New: start a new game 3) Load: load a saved game 4) Save: save the current game 5) Options: a) Video: i) Visual: 1) Gamma: higher values make the scene lighter (black areas becoming grey) 2) Darkness: determines how dark the unlit area of the screen will be: 25 is pretty dark, 50 is real dark. ii) Performance: 1) Quality: (lighting quality) determines the update rate of your character's light circle (high quality = faster update) 2) Ztunnel: Z-tunneling makes your character visible when it stands behind an obstacle by making the obstacle semi-transparant. 3) 3D Shadows: this feature makes objects casting their shadows to the right direction, respective to the player's position. 4) Fog: White fog that appears during the day. b) Sound: define the loudness of the different sounds: i) Ambient: background sounds (weather and environmental sounds) ii) Normal: action sounds (fighting, manipulating objects, walking, monster sounds,.) iii) Music: the game score iv) Voice: vocal interactions between characters in the game v) Comments: at moments, your character in game comments on actions taken. You can turn this feature on/off. c) Game: options i) Verbose: when this feature is turned on, you see extra textual information about the damage you do in combat ii) Difficulty: sets the overall game combat difficulty. d) Keys: lets you redefine the shortcut keys i) Change the key: assigns a new key to this action. ii) Unbind the key: if you unbind a key, pressing it will not trigger an action anymore e) Back: return to the main menu 6) View intro: replays the game intro 7) Credits: replays the game credits 8) Quit: quits the game IV. MANUAL ERRATA AND CLARIFICATIONS Page 22: in the numbered list, item 16, replace "chest" by "equipment" Page 32-33: About the quest log buttons: 1) The first button is the "filter quests" button 2) The second button is the "jump to marker" button Page 39: "One particular nice trick *is* to keep one stone near a bed." Page 40: assigning hot keys: you can assign any one of the function keys to a skill or item. So the text "you can assign on of the function keys (F1-F6) to that item." Should mention "F1-F12", not "F1-F6" Page 45: Add this explanation about skills: There are two types of skills: active skills and passive skills. Once you have learnt a passive skill, you do not have to select it via the "browse spells" button to apply it; application is automatic. An active skill on the other hand will not "fire" its effects unless you make it your active skill and then click the right mouse button. Examples: 1) "Identify" is a passive skill. Once you have learnt it, you will automatically identify all items you receive or the items you point at. You do not have to set "Identify" as your active skill. 2) "Splitting arrows" is an active skill. If you left click an enemy, you will fire a normal shot (1 arrow). If you set "splitting arrows" as your active skill and target an enemy by right clicking him, you will fire splitting arrows. Active skills always have a mana cost attached to it: you spend magical energy every time you use the skill. Passive skills do not cost mana. Page 45: "Each lock pick attempt will remove a lock pick from your inventory": should be: "Each successful lock pick attempt will." Page 48, 50: About the skills "poison weapon" and "skin of poison": The manual gives the impression that you can accumulate several doses of poison to achieve a stronger effect. This is not possible. Page 51: Heaven's gift description wrongly states that the item will be of low quality. Page 52: the skills of the "Path of the divine" are not explained. This is not an error. These skills are not explained because you can acquire them only later in the game. Page 53: Spear expertise is not a passive skill. So, if you actively use it, you will throw your weapon. If not, you will attack holding it in your hands. Page 54: the icons of "spiritual arrow" and "elemental arrow" should be swapped. V. PERFORMANCE TIPS Video Test and Performance: After installation, you can find the program ConfigTool.exe in Divine Divinity's install folder. You can try different settings to optimize your computer's performance. New rendering system: This option allows you to define how Divine Divinity will build up your screen. Choosing Glide or Direct3D acceleration generally improves performance greatly. If these modes are not available for your system: 1) Verify if you have the correct drivers installed for your graphical card (check your manufacturer's web site to download the latest drivers). Very old graphical cards do not support hardware acceleration. 2) If Glide and Direct3D are not available, try DirectDraw. 3) If all of the above fail, use Software rendering. If you experience a game in which your player character doesn't move fluently, or in which you don't have good control over your character because the mouse cursor does not react as it should, or moves "making little jumps", then try improving your computer's performance by: 1) choosing a lower resolution (800x600 or 640x480) 2) In the configuration tool, switch the smoothness option off (THIS MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE) 3) turning off some processor intensive graphical effects: (main game menu - options - video - performance) a) turn off fog generation b) turn off 3D shadows c) if still not fast enough, and if you are using "Software" or "DirectDraw" as rendering system, apply a lower lighting quality d) if still not fast enough, turn off Z-tunneling Sound settings: Mixing the different sound tracks is also processor intensive. You can try to gain performance by disabling: 1) ambient sounds 2) music You disable these tracks by setting their volume to 0 in the menu: main game menu - options - sound. CD Cache Performance: You can change the cache size of your CD-ROM to increase performance and decrease CD load times. To do this: 1) Open the Start Menu 2) Select Settings, Control Panel 3) Open the System control panel 4) Select the Performance tab 5) Click on the File Systems button 6) Select the CD-ROM tab CD-ROMs use different cache sizes and access patterns. So, you may need to experiment with these to find the optimum setting for your CD-ROM. If you have 64MB of RAM, you should set your cache size as small as possible. System Performance: Adding extra RAM or a faster hard disk can speed up game performance. The frames used in all monster and especially player animations, as well as the sound tracks occupy big chunks of memory. If you have lots of memory available, Divine Divinity can keep these frequently re-used data buffered in RAM. If not, the data cannot stay in physical memory: they get paged out (copied) to the hard disk if room is needed for other data. The process of swapping memory pages decreases overall memory performance greatly. You can notice that your system is extensively swapping memory pages if your hard disk is accessed frequently while you are playing the game and you are doing nothing "special": for instance, you should be able to do many fighting scenes, encountering different opponents using different attacks and magic without any disk access occurring. To prevent extensive swapping of memory pages, install more RAM. Having a fast hard disk makes the effect of page swapping more bearable. It also speeds up loading of "unique" data: conversations with voice, new sound tracks, cinematics,. VI. GAMEPLAY HINTS The following is a list of the hints that appear during the loading/saving screens. 1) If you use the CTRL key, the enemy closest to your mouse cursor automatically becomes targeted. 2) To scan the area, hold down the SHIFT key and move the mouse cursor to the sides of the screen. 3) To assign hotkeys to potions,weapons or skills, highlight the icon and press a key. 4) With CTRL+S you can quicksave, with CTRL+L you can quickload. 5) Hold down the ALT key to see objects that you might want to pick up. 6) To quickly close a plate, right click on it. 7) You don't have to use all of your skillpoints right away... 8) If you forgot something a character said, try out your diary. It maintains a log of all the conversations you had. 9) If you accumulate a lot of quests, try use the filter button. It really makes things easier. 10) Spend time on activating the teleporters. It is going to save you a lot of tim5). 11) You can toggle "always run" mode by pressing the R key. 12) Whenever possible, try sleeping. It's a much cheaper way of regenerating than drinking potions. 13) Spend some time discovering what the various effects of food and drinks are. It can really be helpful... 14) If you want to quickly access the main menu, press the ESC key. 15) Don't leave the game unattended without pressing the PAUSE key. Your character might get eaten... 16) Try to combine different items. One idea is to try is to combine potions with each other but there are other things too... 17) Use the space bar to pause the game when the pace becomes too high. You can give commands while the game is paused. 18) If an item is blocking you, you can always try moving it. 19) If you find an area is too difficult for you, try another area first. 20) Press M to toggle the ingame minimap. It can make your life a lot easier. 21) Don't forget to repair your weapons and armor from time to time. If you don't, you might find yourself in trouble. 22) If your trading partners don't have enough gold, let them repair or identify something for you. They'll have more gold then :) 23) Solving quests can raise your reputation. 24) Trade prices improve if the shopkeeper has a better attitude towards you. 25) Trading a lot with the same shopkeeper improves his attitude. 26) When a shopkeeper is angry with you, try giving him free goods,i.e. bribe him into being your frien4). 27) Talk to as much people and solve as much quests as possible to gain extra experience. It's a no- brainer, but it helps... 28) If you have difficulties finding potions, try making some using the alchemy skill. 29) Your reputation influences the default attitude of the characters. 30) Nearby guards quit harassing you when your reputation improves. 31) If you're put into prison, there are ways of escapin7).In the game that is. We do not endorse the real life thing. 32) Charms are cool. Spend at least a few skill points on the skill - it's worth it. 33) You should kill Otho's pigs. He really likes it. And don't forget that he has two of them... 34) Don't believe everything you read! 35) Don't make pirated copies of this game!!! If you do, your computer might blow up... 36) To enter combat mode, click on the combat icon or press the 'C' key. 37) Take your time to experiment with the teleport stones when you acquire them. Try leaving one of them near a bed. 38) To begin trading, start a conversation with someone and click on the trade icon. ********************************************************** Divine Divinity Homepage: http://www.divinedivinity.com Developer: Larian Studios http://www.larian.com Distributor: CDV Software Entertainment AG http://www.cdv.de CDV Software Entertainment AG Neureuterstr. 37b 76185 Karlsruhe Germany E-Mail: support@divinedivinity.com Phone: +49-(0)721-97224-0 Fax: +49-(0)721-97224-24 ********************************************************** This product uses the unrar.dll library. The unrar.dll library is freeware. This means: 1. All copyrights to RAR and the unrar.dll are exclusively owned by the author - Eugene Roshal. 2. The unrar.dll library may be used in any software to handle RAR archives without limitations free of charge. 3. THE RAR ARCHIVER AND THE UNRAR.DLL LIBRARY ARE DISTRIBUTED "AS IS". NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND IS EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. 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