How to configure DOSBox to use a window bigger than 640x400 for Dark Forces?

[Skjarden]

Hello,

I love Dark Forces at for me, it is one of the best oldschool FPS out there.

I recently bought Dark Forces here on Steam at it works fine.

But since I have a rather big screen, I would like to play Dark Forces in a window instead of fullscreen. I changed the file "SteamApps\common\Dark Forces\Dosbox.conf" at Dark Forces runs in windowed mode - but I can't get the window to be bigger, it is always 640x400 pixels big. I had the hope to increase the window size, let's say to 1024x768, so DOSBox would scale up the game image.

My "Dosbox.conf" file:

[sdl]
fullscreen=false
windowresolution=1024x768
output=opengl

[cpu]
core=auto
cycles=auto

[render]
scaler = super2xsai

[autoexec]
mount c "game"
c:\
dark.exe
exit

But even with the "windowresolution" set, the Dark Forces window is always 640x400 (yes 400, I don't know why it's not 480, probably because of aspect ratio).


Is it possible to increase the size of the window?


Thanks a lot for your help!

[Ibitato]

Check my guides might help

[Skjarden]

Ok I solved it - if anyone has the same problem:

For me it was the "output" setting, I have to use "output=ddraw" instead of "output=opengl".

[Skjarden]

Originally posted by Ibitato:

Check my guides might help

Thanks Ibitato for your answer - the moment you wrote that, I solved the problem :) But thank you nevertheless.

[JediDudeLSHC]

yo this is sweet

[Boardgame Heaven (Ray)]

works great with the ddraw setting! thanks!

[SedrynTyros]

A much better way to do this:

[sdl]
output=openglnb

[render]
aspect=true
scaler=none

The scaler is what was screwing you up. You'd need to have an UltraHD monitor to double 1024x768; the upscaling was failing because your current monitor couldn't draw a vertical resolution of 1536.

ddraw (DirectDraw) output looks like garbage compared to openglnb, in my opinion. But I suppose a lot of this comes down to personal preference ... I never use the scaler filtering so .... *shrugs*