I've tried Beneath a Steel Sky and Theme Hospital in full-screen DOSBOX and both games cut off a little bit of the edges. Text or menus, stuff like that. When I switch my computer resolution from 720p down to 800x600, the problem is resolved. The thing is I'd really rather not do this every time I want to play an older game. I tried many different combinations of settings through both GOG's provided config settings and also Window's compatibility mode (256 colors, 640 x 480 res) and still the only solution seems to be changing the resolution on my own each time. Can someone please tell me there is another way out of this?

Yeah if your monitor is actually a TV it will have overscan issues. Consoles adapt to this natively but PC games are used to real monitors. Some TVs, like mine, have a "native" option that should eliminate overscan.

If his doesn't have an option like yours, the DOSBox settings should do the trick for those games. I've just remembered Beneath a Steel Sky is ScummVM though and that doesn't have fancy scaling options like DOSBox, just integer scaling.

If his monitor honestly can't cope properly with 640x480 then he's going to be screwed when playing a lot of Windows GOGs...

OK, I'm still a bit of a newbie when it comes to PC gaming. Where can I find 0x0 fullresolution? Is the .conf file the same thing as the thing called Graphic mode setup? Also, again sounding like an idiot but where should the "native" option be on my TV if it has one?

It's different on every TV, but it should be a button on the remote that changes screen size. It allows you to stretch 4:3 content and such, and mine has a native option as well.

It should be the same thing as the config file you were looking in earlier - called dosbox(game_name).conf. fullresolution and output are together with fullscreen, dulldouble, etc ... under the [sdl] set of options while you should see aspect under the [render] set of options in the GOG config file. If you don't you can type them in yourself giving them the values SirPrimalForm suggested (I defer to his expertise in this regard).

They can be all over the place. I had a Panasonic that had HD mode 1 and HD mode 2, with 1 having overscan and 2 not having it. I just recently got a Samsung, and it only removed the overscan after I named that HDMI port "PC" in the input select screen, which is completely bizarre. Just play around in the menus, you should be able to find it.

Honestly, I can't find a file with this name nor will it allow me to type in things manually. It's just drop-down menus. Where is this file located? I try typing dosbox into my Windows search bar and that doesn't help.

Yeah, it took me quite a while and a lot of googling to find the correct setting for my Samsung TV too. It's in the folder where you installed the game.

OK, after looking around in another thread I've realized this .conf file is found not through the start menu, but through the C drive directory. However, now I' m not sure how to open this file because it says I don't have the necessary program. :( At least I'm getting closer to solving this, maybe.

EDIT: Got the file opened in Notepad and edited as needed, but it won't let me save back as a .conf file, only as a .txt, will this still work

EDIT 2: Says "Access is denied" what the fuck

hmmm ... it should allow you to save as .conf but regardless after you save you can probably just change the extension back to .conf.

That's probably Windows UAC (user account control) stopping you from saving - it does that for the Program Files directory and is kind of annoying. You can move the file out of the Program Files Directory to somewhere else temporarily, save the file, move the folder back or do "save as" for the file and save the modified file in a different directory (like say to Desktop) and then move the modified config file back to the game folder and replace the old one. Either the save file has to be moved outside of Program Files.

OK, I installed the game on another computer connected to a real monitor. This time, no matter which resolution I choose, the game always looks the same. Granted, it's finally showing all of the game, but I don't think this game is meant to be stretched out across an entire widescreen monitor?

Regarding the "it won't let me save the .conf file" problem, that sounds like UAC problems as crazy_dave suggests.

One way around it is to run notepad as an admin, go to File->Open and open the .conf file, edit it and then save it.

As for the stretching problem, the fix I gave in my first post should sort that as well. Setting fullresolution to 0x0 makes DOSBox run at whatever your desktop resolution is (which I assume to be correct). As long as DOSBox is running at the resolution of your monitor, there should be no overscan or widescreen stretching.

FINALLY got this to work, thanks to moving around the file to the desktop and replacing it. Thanks everyone. :)