Widescreen mod for Ps:T, BG TotSC, BG2 SoA, BG2 ToB, IWD HoW, and IWD2

A Gibberlings Three Mod
Author: the bigg
On the web: Home page and discussion forum

Version 1 - Check for the most recent version
Languages: English
Platforms: Windows and Linux

This mod will work on BG TotSC, BG2 SoA, BG2 ToB and IWD HoW (BG and IWD without expansions do not work), as well as on IWD2 and Ps:T. "Game" will be used to reference either of these games. "Game executable" is either torment.exe, bgmain2.exe, bgmain.exe, idmain.exe or iwd2.exe, depending on which game we're talking about.

This post (and the posts it links) contain the most up-to-date troubleshooting information. Please refer to it if you are running into problems.

This mod allows you to play the game at any desired resolution. It can currently set your resolution to any X by Y, with X >= 800 and Y >= 600. Non-standard resolutions (E.G. 801 by 632) are not supported in fullscreen, but can work in windowed mode. BG and Ps:T cannot be forced to be windowed, but can work at all X by Y, with X >= 640 and Y >= 480.

This mod is designed to work with Baldur's Gate with the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion pack, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn with or without the Throne of Bhaal expansion pack, Icewind Dale with the Heart of Winter & Trials of the Loremaster expansion pack, Icewind Dale II, or with Planescape: Torment. The mod should be compatible with all WeiDU mods under the sun. It can be installed in any order relative to them, but must be installed AFTER any mods that alter the GUI (EG. TutuGUI, the Big Mod GUI switcher). For further compatibility information with TutuGUI, it is IMPERATIVE that you refer to this thread

It is possible to load an earlier save with BG2, TotL and IWD2. However, in TotSC and Ps:T it is imperative to start a new game (or you will have lots of crashes).

TotSC and Ps:T require a full install of the game to work. Refer to this guide for information on how to perform a full install of Ps:T.

More info is available in this post.

Windows
The Widescreen mod is packaged and installed with WeiDU and is distributed as a self-extracting archive. To install, simply double-click the archive and follow the instructions on screen.

Alternatively the files can be extracted from the archive using WinRAR. If properly extracted, you should have a widescreen folder and setup-widescreen.exe in your game folder. To install, simply double-click setup-widescreen.exe and follow the instructions on screen.

Please run setup-widescreen.exe in your game folder to reinstall, uninstall or otherwise change settings.

Linux

• Download the latest version of WeiDU for Linux from weidu.org and extract (at least) the WeiDU, weinstall and tolower executables in a $PATH directory (E.G. /usr/bin).
• Following that, open a terminal, cd to your BG2 installation directory, run `tolower' and answer Y to both queries.
• You can avoid running the second option (linux.ini) if you've already ran it once in the same directory. To save time, the archive is already tolowered, so there's no need to run the first option (lowercasing file names) either if you've extracted only this mod since the last time you lower cased file name.
• If you're unsure, running tolower and choosing both options is the safe bet.
• After that, run 'weinstall widescreen' from your game installation directory to install or uninstall the mod.

Mac
It is not currently possible to install the mod on Mac OSX. If you want to either figure out the offsets or give me a Mac and a copy of all IE games for that platform, I'd be happy to oblige.

the bigg created this mod. You can find out more about Widescreen mod by visiting the Widescreen forum or her project page. Visit the Gibberlings Three Forums for information on this and any other Gibberlings Three mods on which we may be working.

Special thanks to:

• CamDawg and the rest of the Gibberlings for hosting this mod.
• weak-ling the original 1440x900 modification for BG2, as well as further information on BG2 and offsets for BG.
• Avenger for doing offset-hunting for Ps:T, SoA, HoW and IWD2.
• Lordrea for the TutuGUI compatibility fix.

Beta Testers:

• Isayia - tested all TotSC areas and motivated me to finish the work on area expansion.

Tools Used in Creation
WeiDU by Wes Weimer (and myself)
Near Infinity by Jon Olav Hauglid
IESDP maintained by igi

This mod is made available under the LGPL license, version 2.

Version 1 - February 16, 2008

• Fixes to the readme.
• WeiDU 204.
• Traify-ied.

Version 0.8 beta - December 2, 2007

• TotSC playable, Ps:T maybe.
• WeiDU 202.23

Version 0.7 beta - November X, 2007

• Progress on removing crashes in BG and Ps:T.

Version 0.6 beta - October X, 2007

• Better game selection if Tutu with SoA only.
• Fixes (?) to pure SoA.
• Works with Ps:T 2CD edition.

Version 0.5 beta - October 11, 2007

• Ps:T support.

Version 0.4 beta - October 10, 2007

• TotSC support.
• (untested) SoA support.
• 1280xY, 800xY works in ToB.

Version 0.3 beta - October 08, 2007

• Improvements to GUI patching.
• IWD2 support.

Version 0.2 beta - October 07, 2007

• Readme typoes fixed.
• HoW support.

Version 0.1 beta - September 29, 2007

• Initial release