Posted April 10, 2018

I don't mind playing the 640x480 resolution at 4:3 even if its fuzzy.

I can't remember what video card I have, but it's 2-3 years old, and it uses the GeForce Experience, so it's an NVidia card. And I'm using Windows 7. And I'm using a 2-3 year-old widescreen monitor with its recommended resolution of 1920 x 1080.
When I install the gog version of the original BG1 (not EE) with the TotSC expansion, my pc runs the game in "full" screen mode (not windowed), with the default (crappy) resolution, with the black bars on both sides of the screen. This automatically happens without me adjusting anything.
I much prefer the better BG2 highest 'supported' resolution, or even the highest 'supported' resolution for IWD1 with the HoW expansion. (I can't remember if they are different or not.)
But even so, I prefer to play 'em unmoded, as the original designers intended. If there is a way to use a better resolution with the original BG1 without mods, I've never heard of it.
So I'm with you man. Hate the resolution, but I live with it, because it's my favorite game series of all time. Cheers!
There's something so rich about the UI for Baldur's Gate so I refuse to install mods that messes with what it was supposed to look like. My only complaint is that I can't write notes in my journal. I can't remember if that was a feature in the original BG2, but I think it was in the EE.