First post, by 7F20
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I'm having this issue where my screen brightness is super dark in DOSBox.
I use a VGA monitor with DOSBox, and it's so dark as compared to the Windows desktop that I can't even make up for it with the brightness knob on my monitor. I actually have to open up the case and tweak the SCREEN voltage up past the acceptable brightness level for the Windows environment. I tried to turn the brightness down in Windows settings, but it's absolutely no go; even cranking it all the way down in Nvidia control center it still lights up the background to grey.
I saw a couple suggestions out there and I tried them to no avail. They were to:
1) try setting the fullresolution to 0x0 (no change in brightness)
2) try different output methods
-I'm currently using opengl because it's the only output method that "sees" my desktop resolution as 640x400. All other methods seem to output at something higher and the wrong aspect ratio; if I had to guess it would be 1280x720.
So I guess my question is twofold. Is there a way to increase the brightness in DOSBox, and what's going on with the screen resolution being weird with output methods other than opengl/openglnb. Clearly it DOSBox can output the correct resolution, or it wouldn't work with any output method.