[Tex/LaTex] Combine a grid of images into a single figure WITHOUT subfigures and labels, captions, etc

subcaptionsubfloats

MWE:

\begin{figure*}
\subfloat[\label{fig:test1}]
  {\includegraphics[width=.45\linewidth]{one}}\hfill
\subfloat[unwanted caption\label{fig:test2}]
  {\includegraphics[width=.45\linewidth]{two}}\hfill
\caption{Something something, etc. a desired overall caption}
\end{figure*}

This will produce a figure with an overall (desired) caption, and two subfigures, oriented left and right. The left figure will have a "caption" which just says 

(a)

and the right figure will have caption

(b) unwanted caption

1. How do I remove these captions entirely so that the two images appear to be simply part of one overall figure?

2. How can I generalize this simply to allow for a 2×2 grid of 4 images, combined with just one overall caption and no individual (a),(b), (c), (d) or captions?

Also, generically, the subcaption package doesn't work for me, so I really hope you can suggest a way to accomplish this without that…

Best Answer

The comments above basically gave me the answer, and here it is

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure*}
 \includegraphics[width=.48\linewidth]{example-image-a} \hfill
 \includegraphics[width=.48\linewidth]{example-image-b} \\
 \vspace{5mm}

 \includegraphics[width=.48\linewidth]{example-image-c}\hfill
 \includegraphics[width=.48\linewidth]{example-image}
\caption{Something something, overall}
\end{figure*}
\end{document}
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