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Is it possible to do hardware scaling with a Geforce2 MX card?

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First post, by Leolo

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Hi people,

This is a call for help.

I have a Geforce2 MX card with the latest drivers from nvidia's page. I'm using Windows XP SP1 and DosBox 0.61.

Have you managed to enable hardware scaling?? I just want to play Prince of Persia 2 using a resolution of 640x400 pixels and hardware scaling to fill the entire screen in full screen.

How do I do it?!?!

These are the settings I'm using right now (which obviously aren't working for me):

[sdl] fullscreen=true fulldouble=false fullfixed=true fullwidth=640 fullheight=400 output=opengl hwscale=2.00 autolock=true sens […]
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[sdl]
fullscreen=true
fulldouble=false
fullfixed=true
fullwidth=640
fullheight=400
output=opengl
hwscale=2.00
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true

[render]
frameskip=0
snapdir=snaps
aspect=false
scaler=none

Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks a million.
Kind regards.

Reply 1 of 3, by mirekluza

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Hardware scaling works on GF2 MX (I tried it). But I think it does not guarantee filling of fullscreen. It just increases the size of DOSBOX Window.
Use normal full screen.

Mirek

Reply 2 of 3, by robertmo

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fullfixed=false
fullwidth=0
fullheight=0
output=surface

and higher your refresh rate for 640x400 and 320x200 in your card's driver options (60Hz and default are bad; anything else is good)

Reply 3 of 3, by Leolo

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Hi again,

Thanks for the replies. It turns out that I wasn't enabling aspect ratio correction in the config file, that's why I couldn't get a completely full screen 🙁

I've enabled aspect ratio correction and now hardware scaling works ok. Now I have to decide which scaler looks better, I don't know which one I like more! Argh!

Kind regards.

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