How to set resolution in BG1?

[Guest San]

Hi!

 

I decided to run BG1 with gemrb since there is no other way to run BG on higher resolution than 640x480.

The game now starts and work quite (sic!) good - good enought for playing if you ask about performance, but GUI is not working.

 

When i sent higher resolution the right panel hides somewhere (sometimes blinks) and the middle panel hides too on highest resolution.

 

Tried few combinations with fullscreen on and off - no success.

I want to play on 1024x600 (laptop) resolution.

 

Here is my config:

 

GameType=bg1

GameName=Baldur's Gate 1

#Screen width
Width=1024

#Screen height
Height=600

#Bits per pixel [integer:16,32]
Bpp=32

#Fullscreen [boolean]
Fullscreen=0

# Delay before tooltips appear [milliseconds]
TooltipDelay=500

# Load NullSound driver only if OpenALAudio driver failed
DelayPlugin=libNullSound.so
DelayPlugin=libNullSound.dll

# Volume of ambient sounds
VolumeAmbients = 100

# Volume during movie playback
VolumeMovie = 100

# Volume of background music
VolumeMusic = 100

# Volume of sound effects
VolumeSFX = 100

# Volume of PC or NPC voices
VolumeVoices = 100

CaseSensitive=1

#GameOnCD=0

# Do not play intro videos [boolean], useful for development
SkipIntroVideos=1

# Draw Frames per Second info [boolean]
#DrawFPS=1

# Hide unexplored parts of a map
#FogOfWar=1

# Enable debug and cheat keystrokes, see docs/en/CheatKeys.txt
#   full listing
#EnableCheatKeys=1

GamePath=/media/Data/Wine/BG/
CD1=/home/san/BG_Disc1_bin/CD1/
CD2=/mnt/windows/Programmi/Black Isle/BGII - SoA/CD2/
CD3=/mnt/windows/Programmi/Black Isle/BGII - SoA/CD3/
CD4=/mnt/windows/Programmi/Black Isle/BGII - SoA/CD4/
CD5=/mnt/windows/Programmi/Black Isle/BGII - SoA/CD5/

GemRBPath=./

CachePath=./Cache/

GUIScriptsPath=./

PluginsPath=./plugins/

#SavePath=/mnt/windows/Programmi/Black Isle/BGII - SoA/

#GameDataPath=data

#GameOverridePath=override

#GemRBOverridePath=/usr/share/games/gemrb

# Enable all gui enhancements ? [boolean]
GUIEnhancements = 0

Removed some comments, since you, propably, know what they are doing..

[lynx]

bg1 supports only 640x480 (no other gui resources as you found out). If you want to play it at something higher, install ToTSC and the widescreen mod first. It works both with ie and gemrb.

[Guest San]

Hi!

 

Thanks for your reply.

I tried this: http://www.gibberlings3.net/widescreen/

Installed full BG with addon, installed WeInstall and other by copying it to /usr/bin.

Went to BG installation folder, executer tolower (second 'yes' returned error) and WeInstall widescreen.

Running via wine or gemrb does not change anything about resolution...

 

Regards.

[San]

san@eeepc:/media/linux/Baldur's Gate$ tolower
Do you want to lowercase everything?
 (run if you extracted some mods since the last time you ran this utility)
[Y]es or [N]o
y
Do you want to generate linux.ini from baldur.ini?
(needed once per installation)
[Y]es or [N]o
y
Fatal error: exception Not_found

[BelgarathMTH]

There's another way to do this -

 

Install Tutu and play on the BG2 engine, which has 1024x768 and some other resolutions available.

 

There is a configuration utility in the BG2 game folder where you can change resolutions.

[San]

Thanks for your reply too.

 

I found this very useful: http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showtopic=12988

I tried to install it for GemRB, but it did not work. Installed 'Install this' version.

 

It does work. Laggs on wine, run smoothly on GemRB.

 

Thanks!

[lynx]

Just by installing TotSC you should be able to run it at 800x600, but the widescreen mod allows for more. In order to use it with gemrb, you'll need the development version (the released one works only for the games with higher base resolutions):

http://github.com/vbigiani/widescreen

 

The tolower thing isn't related though. Did it really fail? You can also rename everything to lowercase with other methods, just search a little.

[San]

tolower works for changing names.

widescreen mod works well - setted for regular mod (not for gemrb) and it works for gemrb eaven better than on wine.