Alright, so I bought Baldur's Gate EE, and absolutely love it. Then later on I went to look at some reviews and noticed that the HUD and interface on mine looks exactly like the original version, not the EE; mine was all stretched looking and had a cramped HUD, while the EE screenshots looked a lot more optimized for the pc. Am I missing something? I have windows 8.1 if that helps. I've also included a screenshot.

Well, I seem to have been a bit confused. Thanks for the info though lol.

;-) I suspected that there's a little misunderstanding. For what it's worth, you've bought the better version, according to the majority of folks here. Cheers

If yours is all stretched, it sounds like you have a widescreen monitor -- BG is a 4:9 fixed asset game, so a widescreen monitor will have little choice but to stretch it by default. You can overcome this if you set your video control panel to set scaling on the GPU instead of the monitor. You will get a sideways letterbox effect (borders at left and right), but it won't be stretched.

@Hickory Is there a guide for this? I did a quick google on it but nothing relevant about scaling like that came up.

I don't know about guides, but I can link a couple of images (nVidia and ATI). Open up your graphics card control panel by right clicking on the desktop and selecting the control panel, then look at which one applies to you and set the appropriate options as shown:

nVidia scaling

ATI Catalyst scaling

Alternatively, you can install the widescreen mod. It is a bit heavy handed, and apparently can occasionally cause issues, just FYI. If you decide to install it, do so after installing any other mods you want to install, and don't change the resolution it's installed at after you've started playing. If you decide to go down that route, several of the stickied modding guides in this forum give instructions.

I have tried the widescreen mod several times. Every time, the screen goes into my normal desktop resolution with the game in a tiny window up in the top left. And I cannot find either of the screens mentioned to change the scaling. I have windows 8.1 which makes it nearly impossible for me to find anything relevant. I can get to the AMD Vision Engine Control Center easily enough, but that has no options about scaling at all. Any help on this is appreciated.

You can get helps and support from the official forums for Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition:
forum.baldursgate.com

Alt-Enter would make the active window fullscreen in previous versions of Windows - apparently it is now Ctrl-Alt-Break in Windows 8 to switch between fullscreen and window. Trying either may help.

If you're using a netbook, it may well have an Intel graphics chip. There should be a graphics option in the Control Panel that allows you to adjust scaling. If present, you will want to maintain aspect ratio to stop BG's default 4:3 display from being stretched.