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First post, by Vladimir

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Hello there!

I write as I have a problem that seems to occur to widescreen users related with black stripes appearing when you play fullscren to correct the aspect ratio instead of filling the screen...

The problem is that I am a lucky non-widescreen user, and I would really love dosbox to just stretch the image and fill the screen, as it wouldn't disort it (pe: Simon the sorcerer on Scummvm will fill the screen and look fantastic on my 4:3 aspect ratio, while Dosbox keeps making a fake widescreen effect). All the previous google search I did directed me to widescreen users trying to stretch the game graphics, and to sum the solutions didn't seem to even work for me.

All games, and the dosbox prompt itself have two black stripes on the top and bottom of my screen while I go fullscreen. My native desktop respolution is 1024x768... I tried to change it to 800x600 and 640x480 but that doesn't seem to affect Dosbox in anyway.

--custom dosbox.conf
fullscreen=true
fulldouble=true
fullresolution=1024x768
windowresolution=1024x768
output=overlay
autolock=true

--general dosbox.conf--
fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=original
windowresolution=original
output=surface

I tried messing with the configuration file, and the different "machine=, output=" options, but I just can't make those damn stripes to go away: Sometimes I manage to have a tiny small box surrounded by black stripes in the four sides, but that is even worse...

What I am doing wrong? And thank you in advance for your time

Last edited by Vladimir on 2014-04-13, 13:28. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 2 of 3, by Vladimir

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

What model is your monitor?

Uff Hard to tell: I am using a laptop.

My laptop is an IBM Thinkpad T60
The graphics card is an ATI M53 (I think it is also called Radeon X1300). I am using Linux, so free drivers for this, at least they are the last version.

For what I can tell, dosbox is the only program doing this so I am assuming that everything is configured to work as I want at least driver-wise.

Thanks for the interest!

Reply 3 of 3, by Vladimir

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Well, by checking a tread on this same forum Dosbox, CRT 17", 320x200... please. I moticed that the guy uses 4:3 and has a nice fullscreen. Copied his config and it worked!

The problem was that I needed to set "aspect=true"

I actually tried that on the first place and didn't work (maybe incompatibility with the scaler or machine?). Anyway, I'll post my graphic configuration for further user, and as always: Thank you for the answer, luckily it was resolved before long!
fullscreen=true
fulldouble=true
#fullresolution=1024x768
fullresolution=original
windowresolution=original
#windowresolution=1024x768
output=surface
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper-0.74.map
usescancodes=true
frameskip=0
aspect=true
scaler=normal2x

(ignore the lines starting with #, it is just old tries being commented to save typing time)

Now I can enjoy my Alone in The dark and only worry about the incredibly bad voice acting, not the graphics! 😁