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Sentient weird resolution

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First post, by Crowley

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This game seems to have some kind of configuration utility named uvconfig which automatically tries to find the "optimal" resolution for the game. Unfortunately at least on my DosBox 0.72 it results in the game running at 320x480 (screenshot attached) which is hardly an ideal resolution. Here's the text output uvconfig gives:

UVBELib(tm) - High Performance SuperVGA Device Support Library Release 5.3a (Jan 27 1997 - Build 116) […]
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UVBELib(tm) - High Performance SuperVGA Device Support Library
Release 5.3a (Jan 27 1997 - Build 116)

Copyright (C) 1993-1997 SciTech Software Inc, All Rights Reserved

Video Card: S3 SuperVGA (Trio64) with 2 Mb
RAM DAC: S3 Trio Internal 24 bit DAC
Clock Chip: S3 Trio Internal Clock

. Configuring VBE 2.0 32 bit protected mode extensions
. Configuring linear framebuffer located at 32 mb

My computer specs:

AMD Athlon 3,8 GHz
2 Gb RAM
Soundblaster Live 5.1
GeForce 8600 GT with latest drivers
Windows XP with Service Pack 3

Reply 1 of 6, by Dominus

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First rule in this place is to report problems with the newest version of Dosbox. Also 0.73 offers more emulated graphic cards to try out.

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Reply 2 of 6, by Crowley

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To be honest I had completely managed to miss that there was a new version out. Those new graphics modes fix precisely this issue. Sorry to be of trouble then.

Reply 3 of 6, by robertmo

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did you have to change machine=svga_s3 to something else? Or it just works without any changes?

Reply 4 of 6, by exofreeze

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I am running dosbox 0.74 and I have the exact same issue as described here. Anyone have a solution?

edit: deleting the UNIVBE.DRV and UVCONFIG.DAT and re-running the UVCONFIG file generated new vesa files for me. I then loaded the NOLFB TSR patch and started sentient which gave me full screen. yay =)

Reply 5 of 6, by wd

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As Dominus and robertmo already mentioned above, choose a different
chipset/vesa emulation style and re-run univbe (or get rid of the latter
completely if the game allows it).

Reply 6 of 6, by ripa

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By the way, with aspect=true the picture should be 4:3 even at 320x480.

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