"I will however add that I have a 26" monitor in front of me."
I play on a 27" HD monitor and it looks fine on that as well - Both Tutu and Enhanced both play pretty well on a big monitor, just wish they had redone the icons, they really are a mess in HD, it'd be hard to tell what they are supposed to represent if I didn't already know them all off by heart. Big "lego block" smudges of colour. Not good - but overall the game is fine.
"So far it seems that the PC EE version is a 1:1 copy of the Tablet Version"
2,048 × 1,536 on my Ipad. A bit aprehensive about seeing it on this... About 50% more pixels than HD - and it's not at it's best in HD. I was going to buy several versions of the game, but I'll see the Ipad reviews before I commit. If they haven't bothered to scale the icons to 1920x1080 I'm thinking they certainly won't have done it for 2048x1536
The gui looks great in 1920x1200 with that Graphics option put into the ini file. However there needs to be some sort of zoom lock and font resizer options added. My eyes aren't like they use to be and the text at that resolution is so small. Also it unzooms everytime a new area is loaded.
The UI does not scale, it just streches after a certain resolution which creates all that blurriness in high resolutions. As Trent states in Tweeter:"That is why it is a Beta feature (the 'Graphics', 'Scale UI', '0',). We can't make a bunch of custom UI screens for every possible resolution. Thus the borders" So the problem arises because Beamdog DID NOT create from the start custom UI screens for high pc resolutions and it will be corrected when/if it does. I will concure with the previous members that the pc version is just ported from the tablet versions thus the fat borders and ugly big buttons on the right side of the dialog/action box.
EDIT: Tried 5760*1080 and its still broken in fullscreen mode. It doesn't scale, but the image is still not centered to the screen(s) It still sits on the left and partly on the center monitor. Wait for android chet.
"So far it seems that the PC EE version is a 1:1 copy of the Tablet Version"
2,048 × 1,536 on my Ipad. A bit aprehensive about seeing it on this... About 50% more pixels than HD - and it's not at it's best in HD. I was going to buy several versions of the game, but I'll see the Ipad reviews before I commit. If they haven't bothered to scale the icons to 1920x1080 I'm thinking they certainly won't have done it for 2048x1536
Scritty
I think that the fact that the iPad is a much smaller screen will make that a non issue...
From @TrentOster (twitter): For PC users, we have a beta big screen mode: put this into your baldur.ini file: 'Graphics', 'Scale UI', '0',
TOUCHDOWN!
Gahh amazing, exactly what I wanted. Fixes blurry text, expands game size, etc. With the FPS option working now, this is much better. Will love to try some of the UI mods as well.
@lurimax Don't get me wrong, but why should I care and be affected because they made GUI for touchscreen devices!?!? I bought PC version. I want my GUI to be crisp and look good at my resolution. That was promised.
Are you saying that we should be happy with this absurd that for the original PC game GUI is ported from touchscreen device!?!? WTF?
Sorry for rant, but I cannot restrain any more when I read answers like this that PC players should be happy with over-sized scaled GUI because it was made for iPad.....
Thank you SO very much for this guys! Awesome job! This is how I imagined it to work for the EE when it was announced that it will have a zoom feature.
Now just make it always remember the player chosen zoom level and introduce a bigger font as an option and it will truly be an enhanced edition (at least in terms of graphics).
Keep up the good work, hopefully you can fix the monster spawn group size issue too and then I can start actually playing this. I will totally buy the Android version too if you can keep up such amazing customer support.
Was reading a bit here in the last few days and was thinking if i should ever post here again, but reading about that option which was added by the devs gives me a bit hope again for the EE.
Hopefully the Shut down the Scaling will be added as a fixed function in the graphics menu of the EE.
The screenshots which have been posted show that the GUI also makes much more sense without the hardcoded zoom
Perhaps it is not a bad idea to look at the further Progress of the EE in about 6 months - one year again!
Gratulations for at least finally partly adding such a standard feature
And i really hope i can come back in about one year also again as a proud owner of BG:EE
One question.. was that feature added in the previous patches or did it exist already since the start of the EE?
If it would have existed since the beginning already then why you have waited so long to give us the informations about that.
Devs, you really could have avoided large negative opinions if you would have posted such a beta feature already in the first place
The problem with the UI is that everything related to BGEE was designed around ipad with its 1024x768 resolution and its 2gb file limitation putting pc users at the second place of the vault.
To say that we will have to wait 6-12 months for a bug free BGEE with a crisp high resolution UI which is in fact an improved version of an 14 year game with a very supportive community is very disappointing the least.
The problem with the UI is that everything related to BGEE was designed around ipad with its 1024x768 resolution and its 2gb file limitation putting pc users at the second place of the vault.
To say that we will have to wait 6-12 months for a bug free BGEE with a crisp high resolution UI which is in fact an improved version of an 14 year game with a very supportive community is very disappointing the least.
That is the reason why i demanded a refund. I was perhaps willing to support a not so final pc game with still some bugs, but i was definitely not willing to support a pc port of an ipod port from a pc game
But that does not mean that i am not interested at all - If the quality standards for the EE do improve over time, and as it seems they will improve, Beamdog gets my money again, but not a moment earlier.
I know that sounds like an evil attitude, but on the other side, no one did tell in the first place that the PC EE would be a quality copy of the Ipad EE Variant
So.. my money still has to wait until it arrives again for the Beamdog Devs, let's just say i keep it safe until that moment
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"I will however add that I have a 26" monitor in front of me."
I play on a 27" HD monitor and it looks fine on that as well - Both Tutu and Enhanced both play pretty well on a big monitor, just wish they had redone the icons, they really are a mess in HD, it'd be hard to tell what they are supposed to represent if I didn't already know them all off by heart. Big "lego block" smudges of colour. Not good - but overall the game is fine.
2,048 × 1,536 on my Ipad. A bit aprehensive about seeing it on this... About 50% more pixels than HD - and it's not at it's best in HD. I was going to buy several versions of the game, but I'll see the Ipad reviews before I commit. If they haven't bothered to scale the icons to 1920x1080 I'm thinking they certainly won't have done it for 2048x1536
Scritty
As Trent states in Tweeter:"That is why it is a Beta feature (the 'Graphics', 'Scale UI', '0',). We can't make a bunch of custom UI screens for every possible resolution. Thus the borders"
So the problem arises because Beamdog DID NOT create from the start custom UI screens for high pc resolutions and it will be corrected when/if it does.
I will concure with the previous members that the pc version is just ported from the tablet versions thus the fat borders and ugly big buttons on the right side of the dialog/action box.
EDIT: Tried 5760*1080 and its still broken in fullscreen mode. It doesn't scale, but the image is still not centered to the screen(s) It still sits on the left and partly on the center monitor. Wait for android chet.
Now just make it always remember the player chosen zoom level and introduce a bigger font as an option and it will truly be an enhanced edition (at least in terms of graphics).
Keep up the good work, hopefully you can fix the monster spawn group size issue too and then I can start actually playing this. I will totally buy the Android version too if you can keep up such amazing customer support.
Hopefully the Shut down the Scaling will be added as a fixed function in the graphics menu of the EE.
The screenshots which have been posted show that the GUI also makes much more sense without the hardcoded zoom
Perhaps it is not a bad idea to look at the further Progress of the EE in about 6 months - one year again!
Gratulations for at least finally partly adding such a standard feature
And i really hope i can come back in about one year also again as a proud owner of BG:EE
One question.. was that feature added in the previous patches or did it exist already since the start of the EE?
If it would have existed since the beginning already then why you have waited so long to give us the informations about that.
Devs, you really could have avoided large negative opinions if you would have posted such a beta feature already in the first place
To say that we will have to wait 6-12 months for a bug free BGEE with a crisp high resolution UI which is in fact an improved version of an 14 year game with a very supportive community is very disappointing the least.
But that does not mean that i am not interested at all - If the quality standards for the EE do improve over time, and as it seems they will improve, Beamdog gets my money again, but not a moment earlier.
I know that sounds like an evil attitude, but on the other side, no one did tell in the first place that the PC EE would be a quality copy of the Ipad EE Variant
So.. my money still has to wait until it arrives again for the Beamdog Devs, let's just say i keep it safe until that moment