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Star Wars™: X-Wing and TIE Fighter seriesHow do you play X-Wing on a widescreen monitor?(8 posts)(8 posts)
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Posted April 29, 2015
I purchased the bundle yesterday, and installed the X-Wing special edition last night. Great trip down memory lane, and things ran fine, but I don't understand how to setup the video to play on a widescreen monitor. In full screen, it stretched to fit the screen, which didn't look bad, but I would definitely prefer to see it in the original aspect ration (preferably with black on the sides to fill the widescreen). When I went to windowed mode (alt-enter, don't know if there's another way to do that), the window was too small. What are the tools I need to explore to adjust this? What is your preferred way to play these games on a modern widescreen monitor?

For what it's worth, I'm using an AMD graphics card (7850) if that makes a difference.

Thanks for any help.
Posted April 29, 2015
DOSBox has an option called "aspect correction", with which you can play DOS-games in their original aspect ratio.
Posted April 30, 2015
The aspect=true function of dosbox just vertically stretches screenmodes with non-square pixels (such as this here 320x200, which is meant to be shown in 4:3). If by "window was too small" you mean that it looked vertically squished, this should help you there. If you mean that the window was just too small, you could try scaler=normal3x to make it a bit bigger.

I don't think I can help you with your widescreen problem. Perhaps your monitor has a 4:3 mode? Perhaps your graphics cards settings has an aspect-preserving GPU scaling option?
Posted April 30, 2015
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Rixasha: The aspect=true function of dosbox just vertically stretches screenmodes with non-square pixels (such as this here 320x200, which is meant to be shown in 4:3). If by "window was too small" you mean that it looked vertically squished, this should help you there. If you mean that the window was just too small, you could try scaler=normal3x to make it a bit bigger.

I don't think I can help you with your widescreen problem. Perhaps your monitor has a 4:3 mode? Perhaps your graphics cards settings has an aspect-preserving GPU scaling option?
I'll check both the graphic card and monitor settings tonight. On the windowed mode, I meant that it was just too small, so I'll check out the scaler option as well and see if it can get big enough to be playable.

For people with widescreen monitors, how are you playing games like this? Stretched? Windowed? Another setting?

Thanks to both of you for the ideas.
Posted April 30, 2015
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skywalker1138: For people with widescreen monitors, how are you playing games like this? Stretched? Windowed? Another setting?
Fullscreen: GPU scaling with maintain aspect ratio set (pillar boxed); other machine I can switch the monitor from 16:9 to 4:3 with a button press (also pillar boxed).
Post edited April 30, 2015 by Gydion
Posted April 30, 2015
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skywalker1138: I purchased the bundle yesterday, and installed the X-Wing special edition last night. Great trip down memory lane, and things ran fine, but I don't understand how to setup the video to play on a widescreen monitor. In full screen, it stretched to fit the screen, which didn't look bad, but I would definitely prefer to see it in the original aspect ration (preferably with black on the sides to fill the widescreen). When I went to windowed mode (alt-enter, don't know if there's another way to do that), the window was too small. What are the tools I need to explore to adjust this? What is your preferred way to play these games on a modern widescreen monitor?

For what it's worth, I'm using an AMD graphics card (7850) if that makes a difference.

Thanks for any help.
I had the exact same issue. This website proved very useful...
http://joshmccarty.com/2013/08/optimize-dosbox-for-modern-screens/
Posted April 30, 2015
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skywalker1138: I purchased the bundle yesterday, and installed the X-Wing special edition last night. Great trip down memory lane, and things ran fine, but I don't understand how to setup the video to play on a widescreen monitor. In full screen, it stretched to fit the screen, which didn't look bad, but I would definitely prefer to see it in the original aspect ration (preferably with black on the sides to fill the widescreen). When I went to windowed mode (alt-enter, don't know if there's another way to do that), the window was too small. What are the tools I need to explore to adjust this? What is your preferred way to play these games on a modern widescreen monitor?

For what it's worth, I'm using an AMD graphics card (7850) if that makes a difference.

Thanks for any help.
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VoodooMonkey: I had the exact same issue. This website proved very useful...
http://joshmccarty.com/2013/08/optimize-dosbox-for-modern-screens/
I did locate a setting on my monitor that could be changed to pillarbox instead of stretched. This solved it, and the link above gave some good ideas for settings for the graphics.

Thanks for the help all. Great trip down memory lane. The first time my A-wing was blown up right at the end of a mission, the memories came flooding back!
Posted May 03, 2015
My 16:9 monitor has a 4:3 mode but it needs to be turned on and off manually, which annoys me. My own solution is to play 320x200 games pillar boxed in a custom display mode of 856x400. It has almost the correct pixel aspect (854x400 would be even closer), and the monitor does the scaling work. Result is pretty good.
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