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Funny thing is, after all that discussion, my system decided it for me. Turns out I'm using one of the nvidia 8000 series cards where apparantly there is an issue causing graphic corription like black boxes appearing around things in place of the transparency. The only way I could fix this running BG1 itself was to either turn on the software renderings and use 16bit but this caused performance lag bigtime, or to turn down my system's hardware acceleration. Which really isn't an option since I am a professional developer so turning hardware acceleration up and down all the time really isn't a good option. So easytutu and BG2 it is as there are no graphic issues using it, well other than the green water and forgetting to install the degreenifier before installing BG1NPC.

Also having to get use to the way AC works in this game, in NWN higher Armor class the better, this, lower is better which really caught me off for a bit.

Hehe, this is getting kind of good, seems I've started a good topic, mods or no mods on first play.

First things first, playing a game first time without mods might hold true usually, as it is great to play a game as it was meant to be but I wouldn't call it a must. One exception I remember was a game called Grand Prix Legends, made in 1998, graphic power though was way dated much like this game, we are talking about when VGA and SVGA graphics were still gaming terms. This game while great underneath, was appauling to look at, so noone plays that game without mods, a mod made it use DX7, poof then it had shading and depth to it's 3d graphics, texture update to tracks, wow no single matte colors for grass, add to that updated visual for cars and the game suddenly looked as good as 2004 games, and I still wouldn't ever recommend anyone play it without those mods at least. Just for the pure purpose of compatibility for newer machines as well as those mods just made the original better.

So situation now, is Tutu really hurting BG1? I'm not typically a cheating type player, if there is an obvious exploit that would basically ruin the game, I'm not going to use it for just that reason. On other hand I definatly would like graphics to be as good as I can get them I don't mind playing an old game but even then if graphics can be improved why not do it, and if there were bugs in the BG1 that may of turned people away or hampered its enjoyment I would definatly want them fixed. It's like most recent game I was playing, Oblivion, I played the game a bit stock to get a feel for it but my first playthrough I used a mod to stop the NPC equipment leveling because I knew going in that if 100 hours into the game every bandit had glass armor and weapons or better that I wouldn't like that. I think more so that other games RPG's have to be researched as far as modding goes before hand because they are long games and you don't want to find yourself wishing you were using a certain mod to improve something 50 hours in that you can't use till your next play.

Not sure how much I'm making sense here. However guess no one can force me to play any specific way so it is still my choice and I thank you for your suggestions and links to things. I will likely be playing Tutu, with the BG1NPC and the old Gui for it, and will just leave BG2 with the fixpack probably. BG1 I likely won't use a kit, NWN didn't really have things like this but reading about them, not sure if I wouldn't really like many of them as the bonuses have sacrifices so playing a customized normal class character without a kit sounds more my style.

Thanks for the suggestions

I've played the NWN series games so I'm pretty familiar with the play style and classes, I'm likely going to go the paladin route as it's the one I'm most familiar with.