Reply 20 of 23, by Kippesoep
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wrote:I will have to kindly disagree. I believe there is quite a bit of change in picture quality. If you want to call it a slightly more blurry picture then so be it. The graphics are not nearly as "pixelated" and therefore more appeasing to my eye.
As I said: depending on your settings. That is the only (intended) difference between the output modes: how the image is drawn to the screen. It's the same image and can be made to look virtually identical with most output modes. ddraw and opengl will have some blurriness (smoothing), once again dependent on your settings (screen resolution, mostly). Surface and openglnb will have no smoothing. Overlay can have either, depending on drivers. Personally, I don't call this a difference in image quality as the image itself is fundamentally unchanged, unlike what happens with the advmame/hq/sai etc. scalers. Fine by me if you call it that, but prepare to be misunderstood here. Many people here actually consider the pixellated version to be better than smoothed or other scaled versions. Hence the very existence of openglnb.
wrote:]I believe that this has to be something to do with the FE I am using. I don't know how but if I run dosbox on the wifes computer I can get the effects I am looking for. The quality is as I like and even the scan lines are VERY noticeable on it (tho thats not what I initially wanted). The only difference between the two is that I have defend reloaded on this machine. Just doesn't make any sense tho because its the exact same version of dosbox, same hardware, same o/s & same games on both machines and I'm not even using the FE to test. I guess I'm probably going to have to live with it 🙁
There's probably some conf file somewhere written by the front-end that gets picked up (hence the people here telling you not to use it) which likely has changed the resolution settings. If you haven't removed it, it's likely still there.
