Can't set old 800 x 600 game to Fullscreen, Stretched to 1920 x 1080 \ VOGONS

Can't set old 800 x 600 game to Fullscreen, Stretched to 1920 x 1080

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First post, by Magnakai

Posted on 2025-07-24, 06:19

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Hi, i am having problem forcing an old game to fullscreen stretched mode (i don't want original aspect ratio), but i can't seem to do so. The game remains as a normal 800x600 screen.
My monitor & gpu native res are 1920 x 1080, and i have set it as such under DirectX, with "FullScreen Scaling Mode, Stretched" checked under 'General' tab, and "App Controlled FullScreen" unchecked under 'DirectX' tab.
I can set it to any other specific res, such as eg 1440 x 900, 1280 x 720, 1760 x 990 and it works. just 1920 x 1080 won't work.

I've included screenshots of my general & DirectX tabs to show you my settings.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

Reply 1 of 3, by Darkstorm

Posted on 2025-07-24, 09:05

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I've downloaded "Ruins of Myth Drannor". Not sure if that is the game RoMD stands for, I dropped 4 .dll files for dgvoodoo and booted the game up, the intro does get stretched a little bit (comparing to how it looked like when running it without dgvoodoo), but it's not full screen, then after skipping it the main menu was stretched to full screen. I didn't even try to use dgvoodoo up to set some basic config, so it's running in default configuration.

Reply 2 of 3, by myne

Posted on 2025-07-24, 12:07

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Check out the settings a few posts down in the mechwarrior installer in my sig.
I did manage 4:3 1080p.

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Reply 3 of 3, by Dege

Posted on 2025-12-29, 17:11

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The game might be a windowed fullscreen one and dgVoodoo won't help because resolution cannot be forced for windowed applications.

Someone reported this problem with Metin2(?) IIRC and that was the solution. You can check it out by using the _dbg version and see the log entries for the D3D device creation.

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