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First post, by micmic

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By searching I found a few threads about this but no definitive answer. I'm running the Watcom debugger under DOSBox and it works just fine in a window. I currently adjust the windowed resolution and I don't have a real problem, so the following are just minor quirks which I mention out of curiosity:

1) In both windowed and fullscreen modes, the mouse cursor is confined to the upper half of the screen when I use a 50 lines text mode. With 25 lines it's OK.

2) In the TFT monitor there appear the well-known black bars at the top and bottom of the screen and the image is compressed. In the CRT of course it's fine. I've seen this discussed in a few other threads but found no workaround. Is there any ?

Thanks

Reply 1 of 7, by wd

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1) no workaround
2) set aspect=true in dosbox.conf and/or try a different output= setting

Reply 2 of 7, by micmic

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2) I tried all output settings (surface,overlay,opengl,openglnb,ddraw) with both aspect=true and aspect=false, but got no love.

Reply 3 of 7, by `Moe`

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What is your TFTs native resolution? Could it be 1280x1024 by any chance? In that case, black bars may be correct, because 1280x1024 TFTs are taller than a CRT (simply speaking).

Apart from that, you should check out the "fullresolution" setting, maybe playing with that gets you further.

Reply 4 of 7, by micmic

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It's 1024x768, an ordinary 17" TFT.

I tried various "fullresolution" values to no avail. Eg, when I set it to 1024x768, the image appears with black bars all around, not scaled at all. With lower resolutions, it still has top and bottom black bars.

Reply 5 of 7, by wd

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Try upgrading your graphics card drivers and directx,
and use the latest dosbox version.

Reply 6 of 7, by micmic

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DirectX 9.0c (no problems found by dxdiag), latest nVidia drivers for a 8500GT, WinXP Pro with all updates, DOSBox 0.72. Still, it doesn't work 😕

Reply 7 of 7, by `Moe`

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fullresolution needs output=<anything except surface> to work satisfactorily

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