sure it isn't the monitor or lcd my lcd maintains the aspect ratio on older games like starcraft and what nit and puts black bars on the side wich i don't even notice.

hawks1282 wrote:

My question is this . . . When I enter full screen mode on my wide screen monitor, the screen is stretched so that it completely fills the screen from right to left, with black bars on the top and bottom. I would like to get it to either fill the entire screen, or maintain a 4:3 aspect ratio and stretch from top to bottom with black bars on the sides. I've tried changing the machine type, and also adjusting the full screen resolution settings, but haven't had any luck.

Tried aspect=true ?
Tried different output methods?

hawks1282 wrote:

When playing with the full screen setting, I've found that many times if I enter certain sizes, when I go into full screen mode, the DOSBox screen rotates itself 90 degrees counter-clockwise. Is there any way to prevent this?

Don't use those sizes?
Only use what size is really supported by your montor (and your graphics card).

Sounds like the gfx drivers or the disply is stretching the picture.

Check for monitor/aspect ratio options in your video drivers control panel and your monitor's on-screen controls.

I have this exact same problem with Dungeon Keeper, has anyone come up with a fix? Mind you, mine's not stretched - there's just annoying black spaces above and below the game, like a frame.

As noted above:

Play around with dosbox.conf
Play around with your video card control panel.

Play around with dosbox.conf

Specifically, set output=opengl (or ddraw, openglnb or overlay), aspect=true, and fullresolution=0x0 or whatever your display's native resolution is.