Jul 23, 2010 hey, I was just wondering, since I don't own a 16:9 monitor, what will happen if you play wc games in dos box with that monitor. Since dosgames does not provide resolutions for 16:9 screens, you must end up with big black bars on the left and right side. Or does dosbox.
Yes, I know how to use the .conf file to set scaling higher. I've been trying to use the 'normal3x' scaler and it just doesn't cut it.It's setting me to a little 960x600 window in the middle of the screen. On a 4K monitor, this is barely even legible. I've been hurting my eyes and getting headaches trying to play Might and Magic, Albion, Oregon Trail Deluxe, etc on it. It's just so small I almost have to give up on DOSBox.
I looked in the .conf Wiki page, and apparently the highest I can go is 3x scaling with any scaler. HWSCALE has been purged from this page and there's no support for it apparently. It doesn't work on any renderer. How is this possible for a program that's been in development for so long to still only have support for a resolution that's 3x the size of 320x200? I'm pretty sure that there were resolutions larger than that when DOSBox development STARTED.
Has anyone else out there had ANY success getting the resolution to be, say, 4x or 5x even? That would help. I'm needing 12x 320x200 scaling just to fill up/fit a dimension of my monitor, just for perspective.
(please ignore, for Google crawlers) DOSBox hardware scaling 4k 1440p 1080p smallGeneral discussion (archive)Invite to friendsInvite to friendsAccept invitationAccept invitationPending invitation...User since {{ user.formattedDateUserJoined }} Friends since {{ user.formattedDateUserFriended }} Unblock chat User blocked This user's wishlist is not public.You can't chat with this user due to their or your privacy settings.You can't chat with this user because you have blocked him.You can't invite this user because you have blocked him.
From United States
Hello, I'm playing Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 and I'm wondering if anyone has figured out the ideal graphical settings for having the most screen area used in Dosbox when your monitor is a 1080p television. Thanks.
SirPrimalform
SirPrimalform Sorry, data for given user is currently unavailable. Please, try again later. View profileView wishlistStart conversationInvite to friendsInvite to friendsAccept invitationAccept invitationPending invitation...User since {{ user.formattedDateUserJoined }} Friends since {{ user.formattedDateUserFriended }} Unblock chat User blocked This user's wishlist is not public.You can't chat with this user due to their or your privacy settings.You can't chat with this user because you have blocked him.You can't invite this user because you have blocked him.From United Kingdom
discodavejohn: Hello, I'm playing Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 and I'm wondering if anyone has figured out the ideal graphical settings for having the most screen area used in Dosbox when your monitor is a 1080p television. Thanks.
fullresolution=0x0 and
output=ddraw
should do the trick. I'm assuming your windows desktop resolution is set to 1080p? If so, it should work. 0x0 tells DOSBox to use whatever your desktop is set to.
discodavejohn
discodavejohn Sorry, data for given user is currently unavailable. Please, try again later. View profileView wishlistStart conversationInvite to friendsInvite to friendsAccept invitationAccept invitationPending invitation...User since {{ user.formattedDateUserJoined }} Friends since {{ user.formattedDateUserFriended }} Unblock chat User blocked This user's wishlist is not public.You can't chat with this user due to their or your privacy settings.You can't chat with this user because you have blocked him.You can't invite this user because you have blocked him.From United States
discodavejohn: Hello, I'm playing Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 and I'm wondering if anyone has figured out the ideal graphical settings for having the most screen area used in Dosbox when your monitor is a 1080p television. Thanks.
SirPrimalform: fullresolution=0x0 and
output=ddraw
should do the trick. I'm assuming your windows desktop resolution is set to 1080p? If so, it should work. 0x0 tells DOSBox to use whatever your desktop is set to. Can you do that in the dosbox interface that GOG gives you? Or do you have to edit the configuration file directly?
KingofGnG
KingofGnG Sorry, data for given user is currently unavailable. Please, try again later. View profileView wishlistStart conversationInvite to friendsInvite to friendsAccept invitationAccept invitationPending invitation...User since {{ user.formattedDateUserJoined }} Friends since {{ user.formattedDateUserFriended }} Unblock chat User blocked This user's wishlist is not public.You can't chat with this user due to their or your privacy settings.You can't chat with this user because you have blocked him.You can't invite this user because you have blocked him.From Italy
My preferred settings (they work well either on my laptop's 1366x768 screen or on my Sony Full HD 40' TV-set):
fullresolution=0x0
output=opengl
aspect=true
scaler=normal2x
fullresolution=0x0
output=opengl
aspect=true
scaler=normal2x
StingingVelvet
StingingVelvet Sorry, data for given user is currently unavailable. Please, try again later. View profileView wishlistStart conversationInvite to friendsInvite to friendsAccept invitationAccept invitationPending invitation...User since {{ user.formattedDateUserJoined }} Friends since {{ user.formattedDateUserFriended }} Unblock chat User blocked This user's wishlist is not public.You can't chat with this user due to their or your privacy settings.You can't chat with this user because you have blocked him.You can't invite this user because you have blocked him.From United States
SirPrimalform
SirPrimalform Sorry, data for given user is currently unavailable. Please, try again later. View profileView wishlistStart conversationInvite to friendsInvite to friendsAccept invitationAccept invitationPending invitation...User since {{ user.formattedDateUserJoined }} Friends since {{ user.formattedDateUserFriended }} Unblock chat User blocked This user's wishlist is not public.You can't chat with this user due to their or your privacy settings.You can't chat with this user because you have blocked him.You can't invite this user because you have blocked him.From United Kingdom
SirPrimalform: fullresolution=0x0
and
output=ddraw
should do the trick. I'm assuming your windows desktop resolution is set to 1080p? If so, it should work. 0x0 tells DOSBox to use whatever your desktop is set to.
discodavejohn: Can you do that in the dosbox interface that GOG gives you? Or do you have to edit the configuration file directly? Directly, GOG's config program doesn't seem to have an option to edit the fullscreen resolution, just the windowed res. and
output=ddraw
should do the trick. I'm assuming your windows desktop resolution is set to 1080p? If so, it should work. 0x0 tells DOSBox to use whatever your desktop is set to.
While you've got the config file open, KingofGnG's suggestions are good:
aspect=true will make sure the game is 4:3 even if it used a non-square pixel mode.
As for the scaler setting, it's a pretty subjective thing, but given that your screen is 1080 pixels tall I'd go for one of the 3x scalers (e.g. normal3x, advmame3x, hq3x).
Pages:
This is my favourite topic
General discussion (archive)