The character portraits that come with the game are the same resolution as in BG1, i.e. 210x330. Yes, sixteen years later we're still using the same resolution.
Therefore, despite my display being about 4 years old, the game still needs to upscale those portraits so that they become hideously blurry. They appear to be about 312x489 on my 2560x1600 screen. That's 48% upscale factor.
Seriously? It's 2014. Compatibility with old IE portraits is a great thing, but that doesn't mean the game shouldn't support high-res portraits as well (in fact it does - you can put high-res portraits in the portraits folder), and it doesn't mean that the built-in portraits should have such a low resolution.
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The character portraits that come with the game are the same resolution as in BG1, i.e. 210x330. Yes, sixteen years later we're still using the same resolution.
Therefore, despite my display being about 4 years old, the game still needs to upscale those portraits so that they become hideously blurry. They appear to be about 312x489 on my 2560x1600 screen. That's 48% upscale factor.
Seriously? It's 2014. Compatibility with old IE portraits is a great thing, but that doesn't mean the game shouldn't support high-res portraits as well (in fact it does - you can put high-res portraits in the portraits folder), and it doesn't mean that the built-in portraits should have such a low resolution.
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