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Fullscreen clipped off?

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First post, by Chrisdudeman

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Hi,

It seems my new 0.62 Dosbox version is having a little trouble with where the screen is placed, because the top is clipped off a half inch, and the bottom has a half inch black bar.

Different resolutions seem to have the same problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot and thanks so much for Dosbox,
Chris

Reply 1 of 8, by mirekluza

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Try buttons on your monitor.

Mirek

Reply 2 of 8, by priestlyboy

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Or try using fullfixed=true and setting fullscreen=0x0 and output=overlay.
That should fix that. And some games respect aspect=true and use a little bit more of the screen but use it accurately in fullscreen so it doesn't look stretched (it looks a little odd in window form though).
By the way, do this in your DOSBox.conf.

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Reply 3 of 8, by Chrisdudeman

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Tank you berry much, gentlemen. Both solutions ended up working independently of one another.

Chris

Reply 4 of 8, by Guest

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dosbox settings arent really that clear..

# fullfixed -- Don't resize the screen when in fullscreen.

this is hard to understand - not resize it from what? to what?

(sorry)

Reply 5 of 8, by priestlyboy

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My thinking is that it stops your hardware from messing around with the size of the DOSBox screen while in fullscreen.

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Reply 6 of 8, by kjliew

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# fullfixed=false
DOSBox will try to switch the screen resolution to best match the resolution request by the apps in DOSBox. For example, if a game in DOSBox is requesting 320X240 while your desktop is 1280x1024, DOSBox will perform the switch or try other resolution that's closely match it. (Perhaps 400x300 if 320x240 is not available.)

# Fullfixed=true
DOSbox will not switch resolution. It maintains your current desktop resolution, but take over the entire screen and create a surface to for apps/games inside DOSBox and stretch/shrink it to fill up your screen.

If you're familiar with MAME, it has a similiar feature, too.

Reply 7 of 8, by Guest

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There are problems in fullscreen. Sometimes, game runs in 640x480, sometimes not.

Blackinch line - I have same problem.

Question: What exactly does Aspect Corection do?

Reply 8 of 8, by robertmo

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read "dosbox guides" - "how to speed up..."
it is explained there how to get rid off black lines