Posted August 23, 2014
So, regardless of your status on the new characters and such of Enhanced Edition, you can safely say two things are universal acknowledged about it: It's kind of unstable, and zooming in is pretty neat, yo.
Scratch that last one being unique to EE.
There's a program known as Resize Enable. Its last update was made in 2003, but it works with all versions of Windows up to and including 7 (no idea about Windows 8). I can be found here, though I ward you that the colour palette there is a little eye-searing.
Now, you can see from the screenshot that this program mostly exists for resizing Windows-windows, like the XP-era windows that would give you a list that only displayed three items at a time, but it appears to work without ill effect in Baldur's Gate 2 (including Trilogy), with a little tweaking:
1: Set your resolution to what you want the character:screen ratio to be. 640×480, 800×600, or a small-sized widescreen resolution are all ideal (needs the widescreen mod which you can find in the stickies). Also make sure it's set to run in windowed mode, obviously.
2: Ensure 3D Acceleration is turned off in the BGConfig.exe. Setting it to use your graphics card appears to break Resize Enable's script.
3: Download, extract and run Resize Enable, of course. It'll show up in your notifications icon area in the lower right as an icon that you can use to shut down the program when you're done.
4: Launch Baldur's Gate 2 and click through the videos. I don't think you can resize the window before they play, but the in-game videos appear to work
5: Drag the box to be more embiggened! It's a little fiddly, and you need to manually scale it up to the size and aspect ratio you want each time you run the game, but it works.
Here it is in action:
http://i60.tinypic.com/25s8kf5.jpg
(tinypic resized it but the raw image was too big to directly upload, so that was lose/lose either way)
Disclaimer: Candlekeep is as far as I've played with this enabled, but as the program's already been through videos, in-game and otherwise, I fail to see what could cause an issue past that. I'll keep the post updated with progress just in case something does break.
Disclaimer 2: Oh yes, and I did only test this with my disk version. I don't actually own the gog version since I don't need it, but I don't think gog typically changes the .exe files or anything, so it should work for you guys.
Scratch that last one being unique to EE.
There's a program known as Resize Enable. Its last update was made in 2003, but it works with all versions of Windows up to and including 7 (no idea about Windows 8). I can be found here, though I ward you that the colour palette there is a little eye-searing.
Now, you can see from the screenshot that this program mostly exists for resizing Windows-windows, like the XP-era windows that would give you a list that only displayed three items at a time, but it appears to work without ill effect in Baldur's Gate 2 (including Trilogy), with a little tweaking:
1: Set your resolution to what you want the character:screen ratio to be. 640×480, 800×600, or a small-sized widescreen resolution are all ideal (needs the widescreen mod which you can find in the stickies). Also make sure it's set to run in windowed mode, obviously.
2: Ensure 3D Acceleration is turned off in the BGConfig.exe. Setting it to use your graphics card appears to break Resize Enable's script.
3: Download, extract and run Resize Enable, of course. It'll show up in your notifications icon area in the lower right as an icon that you can use to shut down the program when you're done.
4: Launch Baldur's Gate 2 and click through the videos. I don't think you can resize the window before they play, but the in-game videos appear to work
5: Drag the box to be more embiggened! It's a little fiddly, and you need to manually scale it up to the size and aspect ratio you want each time you run the game, but it works.
Here it is in action:
http://i60.tinypic.com/25s8kf5.jpg
(tinypic resized it but the raw image was too big to directly upload, so that was lose/lose either way)
Disclaimer: Candlekeep is as far as I've played with this enabled, but as the program's already been through videos, in-game and otherwise, I fail to see what could cause an issue past that. I'll keep the post updated with progress just in case something does break.
Disclaimer 2: Oh yes, and I did only test this with my disk version. I don't actually own the gog version since I don't need it, but I don't think gog typically changes the .exe files or anything, so it should work for you guys.
Post edited August 23, 2014 by Eathanu
