That hwscale= thing - what is that??

Try dropping that scaler= stuff, and instead use windowresolution=800x600, maybe with a change of output=.

MiniMax wrote:

That hwscale= thing - what is that??

Look not to bring the topic back to light, but THIS is exactly why people complain about the attitude of regulars here. The man just asked a question, you don't need to be crabby.

Surface=output does not scale. Use OpenGL.

but THIS is exactly why people complain about the attitude of regulars here

You're sure what you're talking about?

avatar_58 wrote:

MiniMax wrote:

That hwscale= thing - what is that??

Look not to bring the topic back to light, but THIS is exactly why people complain about the attitude of regulars here. The man just asked a question, you don't need to be crabby.

And he isn't crabby. Maybe he just doesn't remember that it's the old option that was dropped from dosbox.conf (perhaps you also don't remember). There are far "better" examples to brag about than this.

I *did* check that option, both in the standard 0.72 dosbox.conf, and on the DOSBox Wiki, but came up empty handed. So I knew it was no a valid option, which in all likelyhood will simply be ignored by DOSBox, and not cause any harm.

Asking about it was my way of prompting the original poster to go back to the documentation, read up on the SDL-options, and in the process learn a thing or two. That is part of my modus operandi - to encourage people to learn enough to solve the problems themselves instead of spoonfeeding them an answer.

please install dosbox 0.72

hwscale was used in very old versions of dosbox

And do generate a new dosbox.conf. Rename the old one, start Dosbox and type "config -wc dosbox.conf" and hit enter. Close Dosbox and use this new dosbox.conf for settings.

MiniMax wrote:

Asking about it was my way of prompting the original poster to go back to the documentation, read up on the SDL-options, and in the process learn a thing or two. That is part of my modus operandi - to encourage people to learn enough to solve the problems themselves instead of spoonfeeding them an answer.

Your intent did not come across to me. It probably did not make it to others either. A more direct statement would have been more useful.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

I understood you MiniMax.

Mabye DosBox should have a check for older versions? If the version # does not match in the comment section in DosBox.conf then it throws up an error?