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Posted May 05, 2011
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Foxhack: The control panel says something about using this on an HDTV. My monitor is an HD one, but it's not a TV.

Apparently it's because Asus DOES NOT PROVIDE DRIVERS FOR THIS THING. It makes us use the generic Windows ones, and as such, it thinks it's an HDTV. God damnit.
Try connecting it via VGA (or DVI), if you're currently using mini-HDMI or a DVI to HDMI cable.
I had a similar issue with an ASUS screen, and switching to the VGA cable fixed the problem.
Posted May 05, 2011
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DreadMoth: Try connecting it via VGA (or DVI), if you're currently using mini-HDMI or a DVI to HDMI cable.
I had a similar issue with an ASUS screen, and switching to the VGA cable fixed the problem.
I'll try the VGA cable (I'm using DVI.) Thanks.
Posted May 06, 2011
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DreadMoth: Try connecting it via VGA (or DVI), if you're currently using mini-HDMI or a DVI to HDMI cable.
I had a similar issue with an ASUS screen, and switching to the VGA cable fixed the problem.
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Foxhack: I'll try the VGA cable (I'm using DVI.) Thanks.
The VGA cable won't work. The Nvidia drivers disable fixed aspect ratio scaling when connected to an analog output. Scaling only works with a digital connection like DVI or HDMI.
Posted May 06, 2011
change the output=surface line
Posted May 06, 2011
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Qbix: change the output=surface line
I was going to say this earlier but I wasn't sure......yeah OP set output to ddraw or Direct3D.(case matters here I think)
Posted May 06, 2011
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StingingVelvet: That's actually how I like my old Dosbox games usually... full screen on a 28" LCD is absolutely revolting looking with old 2D games.
Dosbox games from GoG generally look just fine on my HD display though, its a 27" I think.

Fullscreen they look just fine and dandy to me. Sometimes the interfaces don't look the best, but its not as much to do with the old graphics as, well, the interface used.
Posted May 06, 2011
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StingingVelvet: That's actually how I like my old Dosbox games usually... full screen on a 28" LCD is absolutely revolting looking with old 2D games.
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thelovebat: Dosbox games from GoG generally look just fine on my HD display though, its a 27" I think.

Fullscreen they look just fine and dandy to me. Sometimes the interfaces don't look the best, but its not as much to do with the old graphics as, well, the interface used.
I wish I could afford 27" :P

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Suffice it to say I had a good 24 inch 1920x1080 max res. and that died(floor model no warranty) after 2 years so I ditched it for a 22 inch.(Same max res.)....but WITH warranty this time. I know some say store warranties are crap, but I could drop this thing "accidentally" any time within the next year and a half or os and they'd replace it for the warranty fee(20 bucks) which is good.
Posted May 06, 2011
If all of the games were running fine previously it's no good changing the conf files now as it would seem that the conf files were fine as they are and fixing whatever the problem is would fix all of the games at once.

Like someone in the thread mentioned earlier this could be the result of a video card driver update.
Posted May 06, 2011
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drummond13: Alas, changing to: aspect=true did nothing :(

My card is a Geforce GTX 260. I looked at the control panel for the card, but found no way to adjust anything called "flat panel scaling". Any suggestions on where this would be in its control panel?

What makes this so baffling is that all these games were working just fine even a week ago, and now all of a sudden all of them have the same problem. I haven't made any adjustments to my video card, or any major changes to my computer setup in general. I cannot for the life of me figure out why this is happening all of a sudden.
Damn, well I can't work out why it's doing this but I know a way around it.

People who've suggested changing output=surface to output=ddraw are on the right track.
As well as this, you need to change the 'original' in fullresolution=original to your monitor's native resolution.
As an example, mine would be fullscreen=1280x1024.

Keep aspect=true (it's because nearly all DOS games were designed with non-square pixels in mind).

If the fullscreen scaled picture is a bit blurry for your liking and you want sharper pixels, you can change scaler=normal2x to scaler=normal3x.
Posted May 06, 2011
Did you install a recently-released GOG before you started experiencing this issue? I recall skimming a thread about changes to doxbox configuration for recent GOG releases. Don't know if this would affect all of your dosbox games or just the new one, tho: It's been a while since I've tinkered with dosbox. Someone else here might recall the details.
Posted May 06, 2011
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carnival73: If all of the games were running fine previously it's no good changing the conf files now as it would seem that the conf files were fine as they are and fixing whatever the problem is would fix all of the games at once.

Like someone in the thread mentioned earlier this could be the result of a video card driver update.
Yeah. I know a way around the problem, but that's not as satisfying as solving the problem and it requires modifying all the .conf files. =(
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ddmuse: Did you install a recently-released GOG before you started experiencing this issue? I recall skimming a thread about changes to doxbox configuration for recent GOG releases. Don't know if this would affect all of your dosbox games or just the new one, tho: It's been a while since I've tinkered with dosbox. Someone else here might recall the details.
Nah, only the new one would be affected. Separate .conf files is the secret to how GOG sets them all up to run with just a desktop shortcut.
Post edited May 06, 2011 by eyeball226
Posted May 06, 2011
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DreadMoth: Select either "Use NVIDIA scaling" (stretched fullscreen) or "Use NVIDIA scaling with fixed-aspect ratio" (non-squished fullscreen with black bars on the sides).
In addition to that:
Some monitors let you choose how they should handle resolutions other than their native one (does not apply to CRTs).
Posted May 06, 2011
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cogadh: The VGA cable won't work. The Nvidia drivers disable fixed aspect ratio scaling when connected to an analog output. Scaling only works with a digital connection like DVI or HDMI.
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ThermioN: In addition to that:
Some monitors let you choose how they should handle resolutions other than their native one (does not apply to CRTs).
Actually, it seems my monitor has aspect ratio correction... if you use a VGA cable. It's disabled if you use HDMI or DVI.

Asus, you make nice monitors, but some of these design choices baffle me.
Post edited May 06, 2011 by Foxhack
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