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How does the game look on iPad?

ElzarathElzarath Member Posts: 173
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I'm about to buy an iPad and am interested in knowing if the game looks good on it?

I just checked out the BGEE entry in the app store and the photos look really blury / grainy. Is it just bad photos or an accurate representation? Currently have it on my PC and it looks a lot nicer so wondering if iPad is on par?

Side note, anyone having issues with it on the latest iPad? I see there's some problems with the 2nd and 3rd gen ones. Thanks guys.

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  • ElzarathElzarath Member Posts: 173
    Anyone?
  • BerconBercon Member Posts: 485
    There probably wont be any problems on 1st iPad because it doesn't run the game at all, yet.
  • atcDaveatcDave Member Posts: 2,448
    I have no problems running it on a 3rd gen iPad. I think it looks great. There are some eccentricities in how it runs, and some limitations (no custom portraits!) but overall a very nice product. And it is so awesome to have this game in a portable format!
    I would recommend reading some of the comments in the iPad theme for specific details.
  • hazmatzakhazmatzak Member Posts: 9
    On Retina (3rd and 4th generation) it looks great. It is a little blocky when zoomed in to maximum, but not horrible. App Store screenshots are somewhere in the middle.

    The rest of the UI is sharp. There are some touch playability issues, and a specific problem with the Entangle spell.
  • elminsterelminster Member, Developer Posts: 16,317
    atcDave said:

    I have no problems running it on a 3rd gen iPad. I think it looks great. There are some eccentricities in how it runs, and some limitations (no custom portraits!) but overall a very nice product. And it is so awesome to have this game in a portable format!
    I would recommend reading some of the comments in the iPad theme for specific details.

    I'm not familiar with the Ipad. I know it has buttons for launching apps, but does it have a foldering system similar to windows? Would it be possible to simply download a custom portrait, rename it to one of the names of the original portraits, and then move it and replace one of the older portraits with it?
  • Kang54Kang54 Member Posts: 58
    edited December 2012
    There's no file system on the iPad - or at least not the way we're used to with Windows. On a non-jailbroken iPad you have zero access to the files. There's some programs for the PC which can apparently be used to swap savegames, but there's no direct way to do it. Don't know if they can be used to put in portraits, but I doubt it.
  • ElzarathElzarath Member Posts: 173
    Thanks guys, really appreciate it. I knew 1st gen wasn't an option so far and saw in some other posts that entangle and possibly other AoE spells slowing the game down but didn't know how it looked.

    I'm guessing a patch or two will fix some of the big issues.

    Hmm.. Might have to invest in purchasing a copy.
  • Kang54Kang54 Member Posts: 58
    Oh and I should add that I'm very happy with the looks on the iPad 3. Haven't played that much (am in the middle of a round of BG2), but what I have seen is fine. There are some things that could work better, but I think it's very playable on the iPad.
  • RaventigerRaventiger Member Posts: 17
    The games very playable on the iPad 3 and a think the Dev's should be congratulated for all the hard work they did to make it so. Personally I prefer the PC version, simply because I find keyboard+mouse works better for my clumsy play style.
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