Hi,

I am using a widescreen monitor. When I play Lands of Lore, the game does not stay in its original dimensions, it stretches to fit my widescreen. I'm wondering if I can turn this off, or is there any way to fix this?

Hi,

Thanks for such a thorough response! I managed the get the aspect ratio correct, but the image is still stretched and pixelated across the screen. I suspect I'm going to have to lower my desktop resolution, or my only other option will be to play in a window. Any suggestions on this? When I tried lowering my desktop resolution to 800x600 it still stretched to play across the screen. I need a native resolution that will work with this game, I am gonna try 1280x720 next, keep this thread posted.

I am having a little issue switching between cutscenes and gameplay now, where the sound skip and/or the frame stutters and artifacting occurs. I don't know if there is a fix for this, but I'm going to try to get this game as playable as possible on my PC, then plough through it. I was an avid fan of LoLII, and it's nice to revisit this universe. May I say the game has aged charmingly, as well?

Thanks,

AXIV

Hmmm. It's weird that your aspect ratio is correct but the image is still stretched and pixalated across the screen. I'm assuming since you mentioned graphical glitches you're still using the gog dosbox method? Running it in Scummvm, as per the previous post, did fix several graphical glitches for me, including the switching between cutscenes and gameplay.

You shouldn't need to change your desktop resolution if you want to try and continue with dosbox, however.
In the dosboxLOL1.conf file. the fullresolution=desktop can be modified to try different resolutions. For example: fullresolution=1920x1080. The configuration file does specify that you should set it to your monitors native resolution for best results with aspect=true.

Another setting to play with in the dosboxLOL1.conf is output=overlay. You may want to try one of the other outputs like ddraw or openglnb.

Trying a newer version of DOSBox may also help (better filtering options). I like DOSBox ECE. https://blog.yesterplay80.net/dosbox-ece-en/ Make a copy of the DOSBOX folder in the Lands of Lore directory, and then replace the files in the original DOSBOX folder with these. With this, you can now enable output=surfacepp (with scaler=none)in the dosboxLOL1.conf. A pixel perfect scaling option!

At the end of the day though, Scummvm will likely be the better option for a graphics bug free run.

I somehow missed these games when i was younger, but had quite a bit of fun finishing LOL2 for the first time this year. I will likely go through LOL3 next, and then head back to finally try LOL1, as (like you said) it's aged fairly gracefully compared to the others.

Good Luck!

I managed to get it running with Scummvm as suggested. Seems to have fixed the video issue. For some reason the "aspect correction" is grayed out, but I assume it is in proper aspect ratio as there are black bars to each side of the game screen. It still looks very pixelated and stretched compared to YouTube videos of the game. Maybe something is wrong with the resolution, I'll play around and see if I can get the graphics looking cleaner.

Just to check. In ScummVM if you click on "Edit Game" while on Lands of Lore, and choose "Override global graphic setiings" can you now choose "Aspect ratio correction"?

I also have my "Graphics mode" set to 3x, which works well for my TV setup while keeping the more natural look. You may prefer HQ2x or HQ3x however, as these tend to smooth out the pixels a bit more

I was able to override the global graphics settings and choose aspect ratio correction. That fixed most of the problem. Thank you!

On closer inspection, it seems that the game is still stretched, this time vertically. I have "aspect ratio correction" selected in ScummVM, but it doesn't look like the graphics as they appear in YouTube videos. Maybe there is some way to play this game in its original resolution, even if there are black bars around the game? Sorry to request help, this problem has been ongoing, and I really want to play this game without graphical distortion.

More than likely those YouTube videos were recorded in windowed mode (alt-enter or change the option in the GUI). Have you tried that yet to see if it's more correct in aspect than fullscreen?

Otherwise as I mentioned in an earlier post: DOSBox ECE has a pixel perfect fullscreen mode if enabled correctly. However, You will likely get the graphical artifacts when it switches between the gameplay and playing movies again.