Enhanced Widescreen

• Overview
• Compatibility
  • Supported Game Versions
  • Dependencies
• Features
  • Engine Improvements
  • Quality of Life Additions
  • Notable Engine Fixes
• Installation
• Advanced Tweaks
  • Custom Resolutions

Overview

Enhanced Widescreen aims to supersede the original Widescreen Mod for select Infinity Engine games.

Compatibility

Supported Game Versions

• Baldur's Gate v1.3.5521 (Original, non-EE) – GOG distribution recommended

  

Dependencies

• Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

Features

Engine Improvements

• Support for widescreen resolutions:

  • Numerous patches / fixes have been made to the engine to account for the use of arbitrary resolutions.

  • The game's GUI is modified on-the-fly to better position GUI elements when using non-standard resolutions.

    Note: The original game assets are still used, and likely will not cover the entirety of the game window at higher resolutions. Screen space not covered by the original artwork will appear black, (except on the world screen).

• Increased refresh rate:

  • Certain portions of the engine have been tweaked to benefit from an increased fps cap, including mouse movement / world scrolling. Most aspects of the game remain capped at 30 updates a second, and will therefore appear as they do without the mod.

• Seamless alt-tabbing / fullscreen <-> windowed mode transitions:

  • Much thanks goes to cnc-ddraw (and its contributors) for being integral to this functionality.

Quality of Life Additions

• Middle mouse scrolling.
• Softcoded scrolling keys, (see Keymap.ini after installing the mod).

Notable Engine Fixes

• The game's installation path is no longer limited to ~80 characters.
• Some spurious game freezes will no longer occur.
• Input will continue to work even in the presence of (previously) conflicting software.

Installation

To install Enhanced Widescreen:

1. Ensure the required Dependencies have been installed.
2. Download the installer zip located under the collapsible "Assets" menu from the latest version on the Releases page.
3. Extract the zip's contents into the game installation such that setup-EnhancedWidescreen.exe sits in the same folder as BGMain2.exe.
4. Run setup-EnhancedWidescreen.exe and follow the prompts.

Note: After installing Enhanced Widescreen, the game must be started with InfinityLoader.exe (now in the game folder) for the mod to work.

• Antivirus solutions might flag InfinityLoader.exe as a virus. This is a false positive, and is usually triggered because Infinity Loader patches the game executable during runtime. Infinity Loader's code is open source and available for anyone to view.

Advanced Tweaks

Custom Resolutions

• Enhanced Widescreen displays a resolution selection prompt when starting the game. The list of resolutions presented by the prompt is generally predetermined, though a custom resolution may be added to the list by modifying the inject_resolution key in ddraw.ini.