Moonfruit

Greetings all

After a significant break from the world of BG, I have decided to replay the entire saga from beginning to end in an attempt to relive those glory days However, while I am very experienced in BG2 (having finished it more than a dozen times and creating a few mods for it), I never managed to make it all the way through the first game. This is due in large part to having played BG2 first, and then hating the inability to pause on the inventory screen in the original.

So my question to the community is this: when playing the original BG1 and expansion (not the enhanced edition, I've heard it's crap) what mods would you strongly recommend? Bear in mind I am not interested in adding "new features" to the game, but would prefer to play as close to the original as possible. All I want are mods that can do the following:

1 - Fix bugs

2 - Increase graphics quality to an acceptable level on 1920x1080/1200 resolutions

3 - Add the ability to pause on the inventory menu

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

P.S. What would you guys recommend as the "essential" first time good BG1 party. Based on the BG2 storyline, I'm guessing its Imoen, Jahiera, Khalid, Minsc and Dynaheir? Should I dual class Imeon to a mage? And what would be a good class for myself to round out the group? I'm leaning towards a paladin, but feel we may be fighter heavy and thief/healer light.

Thanks