use ddraw. (direct draw)

I don't have direct draw, I'm using Linux. I only have surface, overlay, opengl and openglnb. None of them do what I want. OpenGL-nb comes close, but interpolates the resolution like a TFT screen does, the letters become all lumpy.

how did you achieve it under 0.63 ?
configsettings please

and what are your current config settings when using 0.65 ?

Here is what I did in 0.63.

1[sdl]
2fullscreen=true
3fulldouble=false
4fullfixed=false
5fullwidth=0
6fullheight=0
7fullresolution=1024x768
8output=surface
9hwscale=1.00
10autolock=true
11sensitivity=100
12waitonerror=true
13priority=highest,normal
14mapperfile=mapper.txt
15
16[dosbox]
17aspect=false
18scaler=none

This is what I do in 0.65 to let the game set the resolution:

1[sdl]
2fullscreen=true
3fulldouble=false
4fullresolution=original
5windowresolution=original
6output=surface
7autolock=true
8sensitivity=150
9waitonerror=true
10priority=highest,normal
11mapperfile=mapper.txt
12usescancodes=true
13
14[dosbox]
15aspect=false
16scaler=none

When I set full resolution to 1024x768, the monitor does switch to it, but the game is a small square in the middle. Playing Dune2 like this becomes brain-surgery 😀

Both config files were generated from scratch by the respective version, to make sure I based them on the correct template.

Try output=overlay or any other option.

As I said, they scale to full screen, but they do so with an undesired interpolation. I just want the pixels to appear 4 times bigger, for example. Not smoothed out. I did not have to go to any trouble for it with 0.63.

hmm the 2 configs appear to be identical for what the result should be.
weird that 0.63 scaled the image then as it should set the original resolution in that case (as fullfixed=false which corresponds in 0.65 with fullresolution=original)

Perhaps the fullresolution option overrode the fullfixed option?

But is it (officially) possible to scale the image up the way I want, without blurry interpolation?

It would seem a change in my system coincided with the upgrade to dosbox 0.65, I can't get it to work with 0.63 anymore either.

A while ago, when I upgraded to the new Linux NVidia driver, a lot of strange resolution and refreshrate problems began to appear. I thought the Dosbox problems happened seperatedly, but I guess they didn't

I have to idea where to start looking next. I'll try doublescan modes. Sorry for not asking questions the smart way...

I have the exact same problem, except i didn't upgrade dosbox. There are a few things to mention here...
before i used fullfixed=false and surface rendering to get perfect results.

Now, i get the exact same results as the other poster. If i use fullfixed=true, output=openglnb, then it scales the dos window all lumpy like bad tft scaling. HOWEVER, this appears to only happen on the dosbox window, and the games SCALE properly. if I look close at the lumpy letters in the dos window, some of them have pixel-sized speckles between them like cheap AA. Maybe a font issue / font engine with dosbox ? (shot in the dark).

Like the other poster, i have an NVIDIA card. I'll try installing the old nvidia driver. ALSO, since i tried it last time, I moved from XFree86 to Xorg. wonder if that was related.

Tomorrow, I'll try my machine at work which runs the identical setup as here except with an ATI card.

Jim

Fixed it. in my case, it was the NVIDIA drivers.

I had to back-install an old version. Just incase its useful, i'll post the old version on my machine for you to download, but it'll only be there a few days.

http://youngje.homelinux.net:8080/NVIDIA-Linu … 0-7676-pkg1.run

I also set dosbox back to surface and back to fullfixed = false

installation of the driver is a bit of a pain.. depending on kernel versions, etc, gcc versions, and xorg/xfree86.. this NVIDIA driver is not xorg path friendly:

be aware of /var/log/nvidia-installer.log this helps out very much

(paths dependent on installation)
manually delete /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx*
manually delete /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.*

in my case, i have gcc-4.1 installed but my kernel was compiled with gcc-4.0 so i had to do (in bash)

CC=gcc-4.0 CXX=gcc-4.0 ./NVIDIA-Linux-...run to compile the module correctly

it places things (on my machine) in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions and modules/drivers. Move these to the above-mentioned xorg locations.

start X

fix the dosbox config.. It should work fine

Hope this helps. if anything is unclear or my link doesn't work, respond and i'll see what I can do.

Jim

I only install software on my Linux box using the package manager (my distro is Gentoo, so the package manager is Portage). This makes sure everything is installed correctly, and can be upgraded/removed as well without problems. This is highly recommended behaviour for any Linux distro. But anyway, I can't install the old driver, as it's incompatible with my current kernel (2.6.16). You will run into that as well sometime, I would guess.

But, but problem is solved, albeit a bit differently. My plans for doublescan modes didn't work, but I used the dosbox alternative, the "normal2x" scaler. Most old low-res games run in 320x200 or 320x240. Especially the latter is convinient, because it fits exactly twice in 640x480. And as for 320x200, it results in a widescreen image in 640x480, because 320x200 is not 4:3. That means that I was always playing Warcraft with the wrong aspect ratio... Here I am making a fuzz about people running 1280x1024 on 4:3 CRTs, and all the while I play Warcraft in the wrong aspect ratio 😀

Summarized, my full solution was to set the fullresolution to "original" and the scaler to "normal2x". Dosbox picks the modes to apply this scaler to correctly (not for 640x480 for example). The fullresolution option is a 0.65 option, so for 0.63 you need to set fullfixed=false, if I understand correctly.

It's quite a simple solution actually, one that I should have tried before.

Hey, thanks for the input.

I'm not going to get into package-only installations.. 😀

the full-resolution option also exists in my version, and the settings that worked for you did not work for me.. I also tried the other scalers, with not-so-good results.

It works for now, but if i get the energy to (or have the requirement to) upgrade my NVIDIA driver, i'll try the new dosbox as well. Running debian unstable, and dosbox is 0.63 here at the newest..

Jim

complain to the debian devs about it (if you want to risk your life). Dosbox 0.65 is so much better.

Well I'm the debian dev for DOSbox. Which reminds me that I should update the package .

(off course I will port bugfixes into the debian version of DOSBox making it a bit more compatible to compensate for the wait).

Hey no complaints here. The rare time that something is out of date and I need to update it i can do so myself very easily.

Thanks for maintaining the debian package.

Jim