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Increase Doom's screen resolution using Dosbox? No sourceports.

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First post, by signofzeta

Posted on 2009-07-23, 05:16

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I increased the resolution to 1024x768 using dosbox, but when I run doom, the only things that are 1024x768 is the stationary graphics, like the title screen, the status bar, and the end screen text, and the intermission screen.

The play area remains 320x200. So how do I change that to 1024x768? I know how it looks like because I used zdoom, and I want to play the original doom without any changes from the original formula, barring the change in resolution because the grainy graphics hurts my eyes, especially when I haven't been playing games with grainy graphics in a long while.

Reply 1 of 4, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2009-07-23, 07:00

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I think you cannot do that without a sourceport because resolution is hardcoded inside DOOM code.

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Reply 2 of 4, by leileilol

Posted on 2009-07-23, 07:34

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eL_PuSHeR wrote:
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I think you cannot do that without a sourceport because resolution is hardcoded inside DOOM code.

This is true.

I think you may be intrested in Boom, Prboom or Prboom+ or even Eternity.

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Reply 3 of 4, by DosFreak

Posted on 2009-07-23, 10:08

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There are ports for Doom that work in DOSBox. Can't remember the name tho.

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Reply 4 of 4, by HunterZ

Posted on 2009-07-23, 14:21

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The resolution in the original Doom engine is fixed at 320x2?? and cannot be increased. Even Heretic and Hexen were the same. You *have* to use a source port if you want a higher resolution, so you may as well get one that is native to your OS.

There are a lot of good source ports out there, and a lot of them can be configured to be very true to the original - including DEHacked support and whatnot.

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