Hello!

Speaking about old games like the Ultima series .... in your opinion is better to play them Windowed or Full screen?

Thanks!

Roberto

PS. I'll ask the same question also in another forum, just to have more answers ...

Windowed is probably better unless you have a small/old monitor; even with scalers, unpleasant levels of pixellation occur at full screen resolutions. Something like hq2x windowed with Dosbox is usually much easier to look at.

Another option is to combine a non-stretched fullscreen mode with a scaler, so the game is displayed at a reasonable size with everything else black so it's not a distraction.

I usually like to play all games fullscreen, just to reduce distraction and to get the right atmosphere.

But in Ultima games, one needs to keep lots of notes - and I like to keep my notes on my laptop. So, Windowed with 2 x scaler is the usual option too.

I don't use a scaler and it works better if you want full screen.

Overlay causes a green screen and Surface doesn't allow scaling, so I use openGL and leave the scaler blank.

[sdl]
fullscreen=true
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=1920x1200
windowresolution=1920x1200
output=OpenGL
autolock=true
sensitivity=50
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper.txt
usescancodes=true

[render]
frameskip=0
aspect=true
scaler=


Works a treat for me.


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