Baldur's Gate The Baldur's Gate Series Thread

[Average Manatee]

Unless you're playing under some kind of minimum time to finish the game challenge it's pretty irrelevant. It's not really making him more tanky aside from maybe 1-2 HP regenerated over a very long fight, and you're still going to have to rest for everyone else in the party.

 

[Storyfag]

But he has some of the best lines in the game.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Wait, I remember this. This was probably my favorite part of my evil BG1 run. Not because of that journal entry, but because of how you can convince him not to fight you by making him believe he'd be evil for doing it or some shit. Would like to see more of that type of content in RPGs.

I think you can only convince him of this if you don't have an extremely negative reputation.

 

[aloeh]

It's possible play baldur's gate in a 21:9 monitor? Could be even the enhanced edition.

My cat peed in my monitor and this is the result:

I bought one Samsung g5 34" 21:9. It will better to work.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

The Feline Liberation Front strikes again!
The EE should be able to handle the resolution well I guess.

 

[cdx]

cat

It's possible play baldur's gate in a 21:9 monitor? Could be even the enhanced edition.

My cat peed in my monitor and this is the result:

I bought one Samsung g5 34" 21:9. It will better to work.

Your cat looks very proud and capable, fully up to the challenge of peeing on a new 34" monitor.

Also, the original BG1/2 should work fine on any screen if you have nvidia card and enable aspect ratio scaling in Nvidia Control Panel.

 

[Gromoer]

Alternatively if you happen to have an RTX card you can use the integer upscale feature. Best way to enjoy the classics imo.

 

[Average Manatee]

Both AMD and Nvidia drivers have integer upscaling as an option.

 

[Vic]

Both AMD and Nvidia drivers have integer upscaling as an option.

No, that is only for newer cards, my card that I bought in 2017 doesn’t have that option

 

[Average Manatee]

Both AMD and Nvidia drivers have integer upscaling as an option.

No, that is only for newer cards, my card that I bought in 2017 doesn’t have that option

I had a Radeon 480 and I'm 100% sure the option was there in the drivers. It's under display settings, enable GPU scaling and then Integer scaling.

EDIT: Unless you mean you have an Nvidia GPU from 2017 and it doesn't have that feature. Normally Nvidia has the more extensive driver feature set though so I'd have assumed it was there.

 

[Vic]

Both AMD and Nvidia drivers have integer upscaling as an option.

No, that is only for newer cards, my card that I bought in 2017 doesn’t have that option

I had a Radeon 480 and I'm 100% sure the option was there in the drivers. It's under display settings, enable GPU scaling and then Integer scaling.

EDIT: Unless you mean you have an Nvidia GPU from 2017 and it doesn't have that feature. Normally Nvidia has the more extensive driver feature set though so I'd have assumed it was there.

yes I forgot to mention it’s an NVIDIA card

 

[cretin]

I can't get BG2 classic to fullscreen without black bars no matter what I try (widescreen mod). Its always a tiny poxy little box in the center of the screen.

strange thing is, I have IWD2 running in fullscreen stretched with its respective widescreen mods. Classic Planescape also fullscreen stretches even without the widescreen mods. Found at least two other people who had the same problem and no solution other than very hacky ones I CBA using. Shame, I'll have to use EE instead

 

[aloeh]

I'll play 2 baldur's gate and 1 icewind Dale in 4x3 at the same time on monitor.

 

[CootKeeper]

I can't get BG2 classic to fullscreen without black bars no matter what I try (widescreen mod). Its always a tiny poxy little box in the center of the screen.

strange thing is, I have IWD2 running in fullscreen stretched with its respective widescreen mods. Classic Planescape also fullscreen stretches even without the widescreen mods. Found at least two other people who had the same problem and no solution other than very hacky ones I CBA using. Shame, I'll have to use EE instead

have you tried playing in 1280 x 720 resolution? for me it worked great with the widescreen mod. higher resolutions tend to fuck up

 

[cretin]

I can't get BG2 classic to fullscreen without black bars no matter what I try (widescreen mod). Its always a tiny poxy little box in the center of the screen.

strange thing is, I have IWD2 running in fullscreen stretched with its respective widescreen mods. Classic Planescape also fullscreen stretches even without the widescreen mods. Found at least two other people who had the same problem and no solution other than very hacky ones I CBA using. Shame, I'll have to use EE instead

have you tried playing in 1280 x 720 resolution? for me it worked great with the widescreen mod. higher resolutions tend to fuck up

Yep, tried that. I tried all the commonly suggested approaches and it just refuses to play ball. Again, the odd wrinkle here is every other IE engine game cooperates just fine. So I have to suspect its something with the specific .exe

 

[Alienman]

I recently watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (don't ask me why) and in it, there is a mage duel between two wizards. It immediately got me thinking about Baldur's Gate.
I think they captured the "feel" of one of the duels from BG, considering they even use protective spells to nullify each other attacks instead of it only being a CGI visual fest. There is actually some logic behind it.

 

[bloodlover]

I want to start a BG 1 - SoA - ToB run since I only played SoA many years ago (and loved it) and I am thinking of doing it all with the same character. My SoA run was with a sorc if I remember but it does not matter very much. What would be a fun character to roll, given that BG1 is quite low level and many classes (like monk) don't get going until later levels? I am inclined to do a wild mage or bard run but I am not sure about wild mages in low levels and bards in high levels .

Also, very important question: EE or classic?

Thank you.

 

[NecroLord]

I want to start a BG 1 - SoA - ToB run since I only played SoA many years ago (and loved it) and I am thinking of doing it all with the same character. My SoA run was with a sorc if I remember but it does not matter very much. What would be a fun character to roll, given that BG1 is quite low level and many classes (like monk) don't get going until later levels? I am inclined to do a wild mage or bard run but I am not sure about wild mages in low levels and bards in high levels .

Also, very important question: EE or classic?

Thank you.

Classic all day, every day.
Go for Fighter if you just want to have fun, arguably the easiest class to roll stats for and you also have a high degree of survivability.
Mages have it tougher at early levels, but become very powerful as they gain more spell levels and spell slots.
Are you playing with Tutu? Monk and Wild Mage are BG2 classes, they shouldn't be in the original BG.

 

[octavius]

If you want easy to play as well as survivability I think the Berserker (or maybe Barbarian) may be the best choice due to the Rage ability that protects against Game Over spells.

 

[Humbaba]

I recently watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (don't ask me why) and in it, there is a mage duel between two wizards. It immediately got me thinking about Baldur's Gate.
I think they captured the "feel" of one of the duels from BG, considering they even use protective spells to nullify each other attacks instead of it only being a CGI visual fest. There is actually some logic behind it.

I unironically really like this scene, it's literally the only mage duel in the entire series of movies and I think it's really well done.

 

[ferratilis]

I can't get BG2 classic to fullscreen without black bars no matter what I try (widescreen mod). Its always a tiny poxy little box in the center of the screen.

strange thing is, I have IWD2 running in fullscreen stretched with its respective widescreen mods. Classic Planescape also fullscreen stretches even without the widescreen mods. Found at least two other people who had the same problem and no solution other than very hacky ones I CBA using. Shame, I'll have to use EE instead

I remember having this problem, looking it up online for hours, trying everything, and nothing worked. In the end, it was just a matter of deleting one of the files in the installation folder, but for the life of me, I can't remember which one lol. Maybe it was a ddraw file, try that and see if it works. It was something simple, but my memory is shit, so it's hard to remember what exactly.

 

[bloodlover]

NecroLord EE introduced some extra classes (some might be OP for BG1 maybe?) and Siege of Dragonspear which as far as I understand bridges the two games a bit so I am inclined to go for that.

Thx octavius I might consider it. I know that melee classes are generally boring af to play in earlier DnD edition but I am not really in it for the combat.

 

[Average Manatee]

If you want easy to play as well as survivability I think the Berserker (or maybe Barbarian) may be the best choice due to the Rage ability that protects against Game Over spells.

Definitely do Berserker if you're taking a fighter kit. Barbarian is kind of shit unless you use some very specific stacking item combos in late BG2 to get 100% phys resist, at which point it becomes boring because almost nothing can hurt you for like 30 rounds each day. If you don't this or before you can do this their AC is awful, and their damage will always be significantly worse due to being limited to 2 pips in weapons (weird balance decision to make barbarians worse in dealing damage, but the strength bonus just doesn't outweigh grandmastery).

Berserker->Mage dualled at level 9 is sort of the typical powerbuild that gives the best progression along the powercurve, with fighters being stronk in BG1, fighter/mages just leaving them in the dust in BG2, and being an effectively full mage in ToB meaning you can still use overpowered level 9 spells while still falling back on fighter/mage strengths.

Siege of Dragonspear which as far as I understand bridges the two games a bit so I am inclined to go for that.

SoD is meh at best, might be best skipping if you aren't really into the combat. Basically everything except the combat and dungeoning in SoD is better off ignored and forgotten.

 

[Storyfag]

Siege of Dragonspear which as far as I understand bridges the two games a bit

Good Gods, no! BG1 and BG2 follow each other perfectly. Do you need a bridge between your bedroom and your toilet?

 

[NecroLord]

EE introduced some extra classes (some might be OP for BG1 maybe?) and Siege of Dragonspear which as far as I understand bridges the two games a bit so I am inclined to go for that.

I see.
Berserker is one of the best kits in the entire series. Enrage grant you immunity to so many debilitating conditions, not to mention it also gives increased thac0 and damage.
I heard Dwarven Defender is really awesome.