SO I can get the game working fine but I cant work out how to get it to run at a 4:3 ration on my widescreen monitor.

I tried editing the dxwrapper.ini but that just made the game crash.

I am not that bothered about increasing the resolution or AA/AF but I do want it in the correct ratio on screen

Also, save starting a new topic, has there been a definitive way to get Jane's F/A-18 to run well on Win10? Ive tried different methods to no avail

PC Gaming Wiki suggests the game is only playable in 640x480 resolution, which is 4:3.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Jane%27s_F-15

Or do you mean that your monitor is stretching the image somehow to fill the entire screen?

Have you tried using dgvoodoo2 instead of the dxwrapper that you're already using? dgvoodoo2 is pretty easy to configure to prevent stretching. Also, as mistycoven suggests, your graphics driver might be defaulting to stretch to fit rather than maintaining scaling.

Depending on whether you using nVidia, AMD or Intel graphics solutions, the way to fix this will be different.

If only is a problem for this game, Probably the dxwrapper is stretching the game.

Try dgvoodoo or ddrawcompat or ddwrapper for testing.

Or nglide. I remember the game recomended glide, but you had option for directx and software mode

The matter is that the game was tricky because you need glide wrapper for the game and a dx wrapper for the proper menu rendering. Dgvoodoo alone should solve both problems, in theory

About f18 f/a it is the same engine. It was also tricky but this game do not use glide but only directx 6 or similar

There was a fan patch for the game. Patch superhornet or so but who know if it is still a valid solution. It did let you run the F15 campaign with the F18 engine.

He's saying that it's stretching the native 4:3 picture to fit the screen. It's like watching a 4:3 TV show stretched to fit - everyone and everything looks fat.

Most people prefer to play with in native aspect ratio with black bars; although I know there are a minority who prefer to fill the complete screen instead.

And for those I´d recommend they purchase the most wide ultrawide monitor they can find and run a 4:3 game stretched to see how pretty it looks and how accurate the circles are shown :)

Anyways if someone is happy with such visual distortions, well, each to their own

For Direct stuff, GOG sometimes brute forces widescreen, no matter what. Recently encountered it in Soulbringer. If I picked a 4:3 resolution, the game still stretched to widescreen. If I changed my desktop resolution to 1920x1440 (largest 4:3 I can fit), the game occupied only the 4:3 space but was still in widescreen (black bars on top and bottom).

Had to make it work with dgVoodoo to get the proper aspect ratio. No idea why GOG does it, especially for games made for 4:3, but yeah, something like Voodoo is your best bet.. Or suffer through it with elipses instead of circles and everyone being morbidly obese :P

Ok I'll try dgvoodoo...and I'll try changing the desktop.

Cheers for all the replies