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Hi
For some reason, games that use DOSBox or SCUMMVM suddenly run at lower resolution, they don't 'stretch' to resolution of my screen (1920x1080). I've included a pic of how it looks like when I run LSL6.
Any idea of what's causing this or how to make the game run at 1920x1080 resolution. Appreciate any help.
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MetaDeepo: Hi
For some reason, games that use DOSBox or SCUMMVM suddenly run at lower resolution, they don't 'stretch' to resolution of my screen (1920x1080). I've included a pic of how it looks like when I run LSL6.
Any idea of what's causing this or how to make the game run at 1920x1080 resolution. Appreciate any help.
If it happened in both, could be a GPU issue. Go to your graphic's card control panel and see if you can find a Scaling option. Change to Maintain Aspect Ratio.

EDIT:
Note this will not stretch all the way horizontally in order to keep the old 4:3 screen ratio. If you want you can switch on full scaling for sttetching but that will distort the image.

Or you could just edit the config file and manually put 1920x1080 for full resolution in the first section at Dosbox. ScummVM also has a config file but the options can be changed by pressing Ctrl+F5 if I'm not mistaken.
Post edited April 22, 2017 by ZFR
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MetaDeepo: For some reason, games that use DOSBox or SCUMMVM suddenly run at lower resolution,...
This could also be connected to your monitor settings. Monitors have a native resolution, usually the highest resolution you can choose in your graphic card settings. They also often offer different full screen modes. If you are running an application full screen or your operating system with a resolution lower than the native res of your monitor, it can handle it in three ways:
1. Keep the resolution and centre the picture (would look like your screen shot)
2. Expand the picture but keep the aspect ratio (on wide screen monitors you would get black bars left and right with many old games)
3. Stretch the picture to fill the screen (no black bars, but a stretched picture if the aspect ratio is different from your monitor's native resolution)

Check the monitors On Screen Display menu for such a setting, maybe you've recently changed it.
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MetaDeepo: Hi
For some reason, games that use DOSBox or SCUMMVM suddenly run at lower resolution, they don't 'stretch' to resolution of my screen (1920x1080). I've included a pic of how it looks like when I run LSL6.
Any idea of what's causing this or how to make the game run at 1920x1080 resolution. Appreciate any help.
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ZFR: If it happened in both, could be a GPU issue. Go to your graphic's card control panel and see if you can find a Scaling option. Change to Maintain Aspect Ratio.

EDIT:
Note this will not stretch all the way horizontally in order to keep the old 4:3 screen ratio. If you want you can switch on full scaling for sttetching but that will distort the image.

Or you could just edit the config file and manually put 1920x1080 for full resolution in the first section at Dosbox. ScummVM also has a config file but the options can be changed by pressing Ctrl+F5 if I'm not mistaken.
Thank you, changing scaling option to Preserve aspect ratio returned it to how it was before.