I am not sure if you can get the original <classic> edition on GOG. Thats how I got mine 8 years ago. Now it looks like its only those EE versions. Thats infuriating! the original looks sharper and amazing at its natural 4:3 aspect ratio on my 32 inch LCD at fullscreen. .
Yeah Beamdog removed the original games from GOG, so from what I gathered, you have to buy the EE first, then you can get the serial codes which let you redeem the old games.
I really do not like the EE edition; weird scaling, crap updated UI, even more bugs...
Oh definitely. I didn't want to talk too much about this to Dez who is new to the franchise and doesn't need to hear it. There are little things that, surprisingly, makes the old BG2's controls and navigation much smoother (such as clicking on a text line during dialog lets you forward to the next line). And yeah, not getting too deep into this and opening a bag of worms, but when the
enhanced edition introduces
new bugs to the game, and modifies original contents (very subtly, of course)... you know there's a bigger problem here. From my point of view, this is disrespect toward the original games and is not acceptable.
Moving on...
In Nvidia settings you just need to take Vsync off, scaling at <aspect ratio>, performed on GPU and check <overide scalling mode set by games>. In the BG2 config, select the 1024 resolution with 3D acceleration
This is probably something you can only do on a desktop computer, because I don't think I have these options on my laptop (GTX 970M). A shame, because recently there has been an unknown problem with my integrated Intel card and I can no longer access the settings that would let me scale BG2 full screen anymore (I've only ever used the Intel card to play). Now I have to play the unsupported 1024x768
without scaling - this is the only option with which the game even displays properly. To scale to full screen I have to disable 3D acceleration, which makes graphics look worse and the game laggy.
