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First post, by anatomyhorror

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Hi, I'm new tot his DOSBox thing but I can't seem to get any of the options that change in the conf file to apply.

For instance, if I double click on DOSBox 0.74 Options in the main directory of DOSBox it opens up a notepad file. (Yes I save changes after applying)

Say I change

fullscreen=false
to
fullscreen=true

When I start dosbox it will not start in fullscreen.

If I change aspect=false
to aspect=true, the aspect ratio will not be maintained when I go fullscreen, it will stretch the 4:3 game to 16:10.

The same could be said for changing windowresolution=original to say windowresolution=1024x768. Dosbox will keep this game running in window mode @ 640x480 even though I specified 1024x768.

I've also checked to see if these commands are applying and I've tried changing them at the command prompt via the dosbox application and it doesn't matter what I do nothing actually applies.

Thanks for reading.

All I was trying to do was maintain the games aspect ratio while playing in fullscreen. I'm sure something would work but not being able to get any changes to apply sort of hampers what I'm trying to do.

Thanks agian.

Reply 1 of 1, by VileR

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Set "fullresolution=" to your monitor's native resolution, even if it's widescreen. This will ensure that your monitor isn't doing any stretching of its own, and make aspect correction work more reliably.

"windowresolution=1024x768" won't work for a 640x480 game - if you want to scale up, you need an an exact double (or triple) of the original resolution. This would be a good opportunity to try out the various "scaler=" options.

if DOSBox flat out refuses to start in fullscreen, try other "output=" values.

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