As you may have noticed the complete collection of Baldur's and Icewinds are selling for $5 at Gates' current sale.

Would you recommend waiting for enhanced to lower in price? I heard there were issues getting the old Baldurs to run on new systems? Have those been fixed? Did people just not know about setting compatibility?

I guess asking whether I should purchase a 63 cent copy of Baldurs or a $20 copy of Baldur's from a developer heavily associated with BeamDog is a monstrously stupid question.

I have had NO problems with the GOG copies of either BG and if you have never played them check out info on BGT before starting, it's a free way to bring BG1 into BG2 engine with some bonuses!

Oh...crap...just remembered GamerGate's strange "Atari Problem."

Whoever published Atari's games on the site was sort of a Hugh Dunit & Ryand co.
I don't think there's an Atari game on Gate yet that I haven't had issues with.

If you're willing to take the time to read about mods and install them (maybe an extra 1-2 hours of your time before playing a huge RPG) then just get the GOG versions. I have the enhanced edition and it's collecting dust because theres more you can do with mods. Also one of the main selling points of GOG is that they fix up old games like this to play on modern systems with no issues, and if you DO have issues and they can't solve them they'll refund your money (even before this policy I've had them exchange games for other games if they couldn't solve issues I was having)

BG GOG plus mods > BG Enhanced. Same goes for BG2.

I mean: tons of bugs, still unsolved, removing the original movies, though everyone asked them not to, adding stuff that has nothing to do with the lore, because they want to attract new players. Beamdog's remakes are technically bad and incomplete. Replacing the movies with some slideshows, it's just wrong. They should have tried to locate the source material or at least recreate it. A friend of mine bought them and now he's seriously upset that he throw that money at Beamdog ( got the version from the Beamdog site ).

If you are to chose: get the BG 1+2 from here, add some mods ( folks here will happily provide with a good list ). If you still want BG Enhanced 1+2, buy them on a Steam sale, when they are dirt cheap. No need to support Beamdog more than necessary.

For me it says $4.99 on the game page for Icewind Dale 2, but if I add to cart from the front page it's $2.99. Interesting. ^^

Too bad about that Insomnia sale. :p

For me the Infinity Engine games work fine on all my PCs, old and new.

There used to be some visual glitches with a bit older NVidia Geforce drivers (like over a year ago or so), like the "jaggy fog of war" that I used to have on all the Infinity Engine RPGs, or some green outlines on characters that some apparently had (my ATI/AMD machines didn't have any of those problems).

But I noticed recently that I don't seem to have that problem anymore even on my NVidia PC, so maybe NVidia fixed it. And even when the problem was active, there was a workaround for it, setting some graphics settings in the game options (but it might have meant a bit reduced graphical quality, like using 16bpp colors instead of 32bpp). And they weren't really game-breaking bugs anyway (at least for me), just looked a bit odd.

Then there is this generic issue or "issue" with those Infinity Engine games, but as far as I've read, the same applies to the BG Enhanced:

http://www.gog.com/forum/baldurs_gate_series/100_cpu_usage_modern_computer_whats_up

Then there was that one lady in GOG who couldn't get either the retail nor the GOG version of IWD work on her PC, but it was an isolated case I think...

I have Windows 8 and have been running IWD and BG2 with no issues as far as the program goes. After upgrading to Windows 8.1, the upgrade changed my monitor resolution from 1366x768 to 1024 x 768. This caused the IE games to present in a smaller portion of the screen. I had to upgrade the driver from AMD and then download the widescreen mod for IWD/ BG2 to have the game present in 1366 x 768. Below is the link to the BG/ BG2 thread from 2012.

2012.http://www.gog.com/forum/general/enhance_the_gameplay_in_your_edition_of_baldurs_gate_from_gogcom/page1

It seems to me that the EE's are WAY overpriced currently. They also lack the huge amount of mods that you can get for the original versions. I'm sure the EEs will be getting more mods in the future, but for now I just can't see any reason to replace my old collection with the newer titles, especially at those prices.

Probably Enhanced is still overpriced in comparison. Especially to the GG D&D Anthology bundle. How can you argue with €5 for the Baldurs Gate 1+2 series, Icewind Dale 1+2 series + Planescape Torment and TOEE. And it uses the GOG versions of those games anyway.

That said, about mods. They're getting ported to the Enhanced version mostly. Considering it will have most the same mods in the end, the Enhanced version will probably be the version to get. Price difference is too massive at the moment though.

I haven't heard of any issues, and GOG supports the games so if someone has an issue it'd likely be addressed. Also, if there was a general affects-everyone issue it'd be well known and talked about every time the game comes up in conversation. I haven't heard anything of the sort personally. I just installed BG1 and BG2 a few nights ago on Windows 7 64bit and it works fine. I can't say there are no problems as it'd take weeks to play the game through I imagine, but it works so far anyway. I also did a separate install where I apply all of the custom mods listed in the link on the bottom of the GOG game card for Baldur's Gate which combine both games into one big game with high resolution, wide screen, etc. That works fine also.

I did not have to set any compatibility settings or do anything other than run the GOG installer and start the game, but of course other's mileage may vary.

The GOG versions of these games are DRM-free at least and come with all the extras and with GOG support. I'd be leary of how well they're supported on other sites with or without DRM. All of the D&D games are on sale today on GOG for 80% off and even if some of them are available elsewhere for a slightly better promo price, GOG's price is well worth it for what you get from GOG and the community support wise. I'd definitely recommend people go for the GOG versions for that alone since the difference in price we're talking about here is the price of a few cups of coffee at best, and the potential time loss due to DRM hassles or theoretical lack of support elsewhere just wouldn't be worth it for me.

Can't speak to the Enhanced editions though, don't have them yet but they're on my wishlist for the future also.

Thanks, I'm using AMD and 8.1 as well so I might need these solutions you posted.
Yeah, that's what sparked this topic and apparently GOG has matched prices with Gate today.

I play the GOG versions of the Infinity Engine games and have no problems, but I've read the Anthology version on Gamersgate uses a different file-structure, creating problems with installing mods. So if you want to mod your games, GOG is the way to go. Can't grant you the source of the news no and can't test so myself, I don't own the GG versions.