Screen Resolution in game is unplayable

[suchender]

When I launch Hocus Pocus, I get a screen that is less than full size, making it impossible to play. I have laptop running Windows 8.1. I've tried monkeying with the config file, but nothing seems to help. Any ideas? I have a screenshot, which I was going to include here, but don't see how. I will see if I can post it under the Screenshots tab.

Thanks!

[GaNoo]

yea, none of the solutions works for me either. Not sure why it worked for Shodan, but this is frustrating.

[mindle35]

Originally posted by shodan2020:

Here is my solution:
1. Download DOSBOX
2. drag hocus.exe from it's directory
3. drop onto DOSBOX
4. ?????????
5. Play.

great!!!

[Spoony Viking]

I have a possible solution. Open the game's DOSbox config file (Hocus.conf, it can be found in the game's folder inside the Steam folder) and, underneath "scaler=none" (that's the default option, I changed mine to "scaler=hq2x"), add "autofit=false"; that should correct the issue.

[suchender]

Rats! I hoped this would work for me, but it doesn't. I went into all the options on the DOSbox command menu and tried every combination I could find, but it still doesn't work. I'm starting to think it's the graphic card in my laptop, but all of the other games in the game pack work just fine, so I still think it's something with Hocus Pocus. Will keep trying "stuff". Thanks for the possible solution.

[ThreeSon]

I have the problem as well, on a Windows 7 desktop, with a GTX 680 graphics card.

[suchender]

I have a Windows 10 laptop with an Intel graphics card. I know the game works for some people, so there's got to be something causing the problem, not the game itself.

[Falconerd]

Originally posted by julioleostos and ThreeSons
"I replaced the Dosbox folder bundled with Hocus Pocus (which is DosBox SVN-Daum [ xkhwong.x-y.net], updated in Jan 25th, 2015) with the one I have (same DosBox, but an earlier build - updated in July 25th, 2013). THIS build works perfectly with Hocus Pocus."

"Actually it looks like you only need to go backwards a single build - to DOSBox Daum 2014-01-27 - and that is enough to fix it.
- Go to the "older builds" section of the Daum developer site, here:
http://ykhwong.x-y.net/subpages/old.php
- Download the "20140127" build for your specific OS. You don't need the DLL files.
- Go to the DOSBox folder for Hocus Pocus in Steam (steamapps\common\Hocus Pocus\Hocus Pocus\Dosbox) and overwrite the "dosbox.exe" and "dosbox.conf" files there with the ones from the downloaded archive."

[ThreeSon]

Originally posted by Falconerd:

- Go to the "older builds" section of the Daum developer site, here:
http://ykhwong.x-y.net/subpages/old.php

- Download the "20140127" build for your specific OS. You don't need the DLL files.

- Go to the DOSBox folder for Hocus Pocus in Steam (steamapps\common\Hocus Pocus\Hocus Pocus\Dosbox) and overwrite the "dosbox.exe" and "dosbox.conf" files there with the ones from the downloaded archive."

- That should do it.

Thanks I forgot about this separate thread. The above procedure should work for everyone who is still having the stretched screen problem in Hocus Pocus.

[suchender]

This did indeed take care of the issue. Thank you!!

[Devlyiik]

Thank you ThreeSon, your last post has solved my screen resolution as well.

I would suggest you write a short guide about it for other Steam users.

[ThreeSon]

Originally posted by Devlyiik:

Thank you ThreeSon, your last post has solved my screen resolution as well.

I would suggest you write a short guide about it for other Steam users.

Good suggestion. Here it is:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=594625800

[Unlimited]

Has anyone else tried just clearing the doublescan value?
So that you have "doublescan="
I've tried it on many different configurations and they've worked where nothing else has.

[Katsuni]

Yay thanks, thanks, this fixed it for me first try =3

Originally posted by Falconerd:

Originally posted by julioleostos and ThreeSons
"I replaced the Dosbox folder bundled with Hocus Pocus (which is DosBox SVN-Daum [ xkhwong.x-y.net], updated in Jan 25th, 2015) with the one I have (same DosBox, but an earlier build - updated in July 25th, 2013). THIS build works perfectly with Hocus Pocus."

"Actually it looks like you only need to go backwards a single build - to DOSBox Daum 2014-01-27 - and that is enough to fix it.
- Go to the "older builds" section of the Daum developer site, here:
http://ykhwong.x-y.net/subpages/old.php
- Download the "20140127" build for your specific OS. You don't need the DLL files.
- Go to the DOSBox folder for Hocus Pocus in Steam (steamapps\common\Hocus Pocus\Hocus Pocus\Dosbox) and overwrite the "dosbox.exe" and "dosbox.conf" files there with the ones from the downloaded archive."

[pred]

or you can use dosbox ece or dosbox-x for different (maybe better for you) results.