Health bars above avatars

Eltharion1979

Hello all, thanks in advance for the advices and help so far :-) I have an issue, I update Baldurs Gate 2 Enhanced Edition today and I notice that when I am in combat a health bar appears above the avatars, of my group and to my enemies. How can I stop that? I dont like this health bars, any solution?

lunar

From the gameplay or graphics options. Toggle health bars off. You may need to save/quit the game and restart it again and load your save, though.

Eltharion1979

Thank you very much, Ill check it.

lunar

Your welcome. It is in the graphics options, precisely, 'show health bars' option. I hate it too, it makes the game feel like a real time strategy. I toggled it off.

You may also toggle off 'grayscale on pause' too, when you pause the game it sucks the life out of it by turning everyting gray. Makes it impossible to capture nice screenshots. There are also other options like sprite outlines, which cause slow down in some old systems, so I turned it off too.

Arunsun

It really felt like playing Warcraft 3 indeed, but it's actually pretty nice on bosses, though somewhat visually aggressive against large groups of enemies.

iavasechui

...if i turn them off and hold tab over the enemies will it still say things like nearly dead or uninjured? because I will be very sad if that is gone.

moody_mage

I like them.

@iavasechui holding tab still shows that info with the healthbars on or off.

Lord_Tansheron

iavasechui said:

...if i turn them off and hold tab over the enemies will it still say things like nearly dead or uninjured? because I will be very sad if that is gone.

Should still be there.

Yamcha

Is there a way to only display the bars above the enemy? I don't need to see mine since I have portraits of my characters...