So I dunno about y'all, but as one of the older Larian fans here, it's been really heartening in this past month or so to see the level of interest people have in the older Divinity games spike from "basically zero" to "at least one or two people every day" (in the Larian discord, at least). It's great! I love the classic Divinity games, and I'm really excited that Larian's return to the setting with their next game is inspiring more people to seek them out.
The only problem is that getting those older games to run on modern PCs is kind of a problem. Now that Larian is a AAA studio and has so much attention on their Divinity series, now would really be the perfect time for them to devote some resources to some patching, yeah? For the most part, the issues plaguing the older games *seem* like they ought to be easy to fix, so I'd like to think this is at least theoretically very-feasible.
Divinity 2, for example, suffers from from really bad stuttering on modern GPUs. There's a fan-patch that fixes the problem, thankfully, but it'd sure be nice to see that fix incorporated into the game from the get-go. The bigger problem, and the one without any workaround, affects not only Div2 but also DD and BD: the lack of text scaling. Basically, the text is utterly unreadable on modern displays. Apparently at one point there was a mod that enlarged the text in Div2, but that mod seems to have vanished from the Internet about 10 years ago.
There also seem to be some issues w/ the aspect ratio of DD and BD, but that might require a little more work to fix.
Anyway, yeah, that's all I'm here to say. It's just... kinda/very frustrating to love these games, and see other people get excited about them (finally! after so many *years* of begging every person I meet to play DKS or Divine Divinity. a *receptive* audience!) only to smash into these not-insignificant roadblocks as soon as they start trying to get into them.
