Damn good guide. Thank you, will have to make use of it ext time I install Torment. Again.

The guide suggests some common resolutions for the widescreen mode, but none were satisfactory to me. Everything looks too small. The resolution I'm playing with, using the mods, is 1024/600. It doesn't shrink everything too much and it improves on the originial res a lot. For those who feel the high ressolutions suggested make your characters look like ants, it may be a solution. Works fine for me. You'll miss some mod background work on the menus. When you open the journal, for instance, you won't see the artwork implemented by the mods to cover the black space in the background. The background is just black. But that's a very minor nuisance, if it's a nuisance at all. Give it a try folks. If your card does not support the 1024/600 resolution, you can always force it. Definitely worth the trouble.

I would also recommend NOT to install the 'More Morte Mortuary Moments' section - I think it's part of the Unfinished Business mod.

It changes the opening dialogue, and to be quite honest, it's worse than the original. While Morte says a lot more, it's all stuff that he mentions later anyway (in a normal playthrough), and that means you get a lot of repitition. If I remember right, some of the stuff he says makes it seem like Morte's the one with amnesia because he seems to forget stuff that you did moments ago and mentions it again in a different conversation shortly afterwards.

Sweet, looks better and plays better now! Thanks!

News articles like this are why there's nothing better than being a customer of GOG. I'm definitely going to purchase this game in the near future now that I know all these mods are available to make the experience even better.

I installed all these mods, so far they're great with one exception: in the new resolution, sometimes the map doesn't "save"; i.e. there's a visible patch around me and as I move it moves with me and the rest goes black again. Anyone know how to fix this?

Wow, this is great. Thanks so much!

I seem to recall something happening to me like that first time i used the widescreen mod ... i think it can be fixed by just saving, quitting, reloading, but i'm not sure sorry. Your best place to go for problems like this would be Spellhold Studios or Gibberlings 3, the bigg (the author of the widescreen mod) is online often and very knowledgeable, he's helped me with graphical problems in the past. Hope you find a solution.

I still had issues with installing any of the mods after the Ghostdog's UI fix. The fix for me under Windows 7 was to right-click on the .exe and "Run as Administrator".

Just thought I'd pass on that tip.


Thanks Gog.com for posting this guide- it really makes the game much more playable and enjoyable!

-Negatif

Very good idea - need to expand this to all moddable games and link via the game page. External links to the files are great - You Could really push this site with a little time and imagination.

your great job makes me sad
sad about black isle
and good ol'days

EDIT: Problem fixed. Blatant idiotic user error. Original post deleted to avoid apperance of absolute idiocy.

Thanks for the help, I finally got it working but my actual problem was not realizing i had to decompress a .rar file. Oops.

Two questions remain:

1. With Ultimate Fixpack, should we still look for official patches? (that is, assuming there's an official patch that's more advanced than the GOG version of the game)

2. Are the missions on Unfinished Business pack... well... finished? Or is it just a bunch of dead-ends? Isn't there good a reason why they weren't added to the game?

Bonus question: does this guide work on a physical CD version of the game (not the version from GOG) with or without the latest official patch?