The Joys of PC Games

Oh…that… I’ve reinstalled the various Infiity Engine games. I want to play them. But yeah, I kinda forgot how difficult it can be to run PC games that are older than a year or two. For one, after all these years there still isn’t an official no-CD patch for Baldur’s Gate 2 and the expansion pack. Worse, the old trusty Gamecopyworld doesn’t have a crack, either! The idea was kinda that I’d be playing these games on my laptop wheverever I am, and having to keep 4 different CDs in my pocket doesn’t sit particularly well with that. Which brings us to problem #2: none of these games support widescreen displays. So now I can either play a stretched game in fullscreen or a windowed 1600×1200 game with woefully tiny sprites and details. I tried the tiny stuff a bit yesterday and my eyes started to hurt – I guess I’ll go to a stretched display next.

Games for PC – Killing Momentum since 1984.