A debug-enabled build of DOSBox should give you this information.

Thank you, that was fast! I'll see if I can get the debug thing running.

Jesus Christ almighty, this is going to be more complicated than I foresaw.

Wouldn't it be great to have said information (plus color depth) available from the status window? can't help but make it a feature request.

Regards.

Wouldn't it be great to have said information (plus color depth) available from the status window?

Nope. Just clutters the status window with useless information.

wd wrote:

Wouldn't it be great to have said information (plus color depth) available from the status window?

Nope. Just clutters the status window with useless information.

If it's useless, why does the debugger show it?

in the debugger it is not useless as the non average users uses that one.

You know that in the dev forum there is a precompiled debugger version available.

If it's useless, why does the debugger show it?

Because those people who use the debugger require it.

wd wrote:

If it's useless, why does the debugger show it?

Because those people who use the debugger require it.

So then it's useful. It's never a good thing to make such an assumption for everybody. Obviously some users don't care about being able to recreate a proper DOS experience, so they're perfectly ok with a piece of crap windowed, upscaled, de-syncing image, but that's them, not me, I favor using the original resolutions and refresh rates in fullscreen, which can be a lil tricky as you must usually add custom modelines for acceptable precision.

Anyways, how could something like "8-bit 320x200@69.8xxxxxx" clutter the window in any way?

@Qbix: yes, though I haven't found the debug-enabled binaries for 0.74. Guess I'll have to give 0.73 a try.

Maybe a 'report current res/depth/rate to console' hotkey would work.

Anyways, how could something like "8-bit 320x200@69.8xxxxxx" clutter the window in any way?

Displaying Color, resolution and refresh rate info is useless for most users. Don't know why you can't see that.

They just want it to "work".

Maybe a 'report current res/depth/rate to console' hotkey would work.

Overlay like what ScummVM does for scalers would likely be the best bet.

DosFreak wrote:

Anyways, how could something like "8-bit 320x200@69.8xxxxxx" clutter the window in any way?

Displaying Color, resolution and refresh rate info is useless for most users. Don't know why you can't see that.

They just want it to "work"

He said it would clutter the status window and that has absolutely nothing to do with your assumption that most users wouldn't find this information useful.

Too much work just to please a handful or nerds? I can live with that, but alleging cluttering? not convincing enough.

get the debugger version which is precompiled and be happy.
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