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Posted June 22, 2020
At some point it seems like the "Graphic Mode Setup" option for all of GOG's DOS games has stopped working. I can go in and manually edit the DOSBox configuration files, but using the setup doesn't do anything except turn full-screen mode on and off. I've tried running the setup as an administrator and I've tried at least three different games (FTL, Master of Magic, and most recently Eye of the Beholder I) with the same results on two different Windows 10 machines.

What am I doing wrong here?
This question / problem has been solved by Gudadantzaimage
Posted June 22, 2020
If you try to run the GOGDOSConfig.exe from the game's subdirectory it won't run. It will tell you to run the link from the
Start Menu.
I don't know about FTL (Faster Than Light?), that is not a DOSBox Game.
Posted June 22, 2020
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Kobi-K: If you try to run the GOGDOSConfig.exe from the game's subdirectory it won't run. It will tell you to run the link from the
Start Menu.
I have been running it from the Start Menu.

I don't know about FTL (Faster Than Light?), that is not a DOSBox Game.
Sorry, you're right. Wizardry 6 is the other one I've tried.
Posted June 22, 2020
There are really not that much of options, scaling methods or output methods can change the way you look at the screen but is most of the time really unnessary unless you work with specific know how. The only options i ever change is to either add some joystick commands to a game in the dosbox.ini or change the amount of cycles dosbox is autoset on running if a game ( fantasy general ) runs to fast for my taste
Post edited June 22, 2020 by Radiance1979
Posted June 23, 2020
The scaling options do literally *nothing*. 2x scaling or 3x scaling still give me the exact same size window, and the next time I open Graphic Mode Setup everything is set to default except the full-screen checkbox.
Posted June 23, 2020
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MisterTim: At some point it seems like the "Graphic Mode Setup" option for all of GOG's DOS games has stopped working. I can go in and manually edit the DOSBox configuration files, but using the setup doesn't do anything except turn full-screen mode on and off. I've tried running the setup as an administrator and I've tried at least three different games (FTL, Master of Magic, and most recently Eye of the Beholder I) with the same results on two different Windows 10 machines.

What am I doing wrong here?
If you're having issues with DosBox, you can try running these games in Dosbox-Staging:

https://dosbox-staging.github.io/v0-75-0/
Posted June 23, 2020
I'm not having issues with DOSBox directly, I'm having issues with the Graphic Mode Setup program that GOG installs along with DOSBox software. Like I said, I can manually edit the DOSBox config file and it works fine.
Posted June 23, 2020
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MisterTim: The scaling options do literally *nothing*. 2x scaling or 3x scaling still give me the exact same size window, and the next time I open Graphic Mode Setup everything is set to default except the full-screen checkbox.
Change Overlay to DDraw e.g.
Posted June 23, 2020
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MisterTim: The scaling options do literally *nothing*. 2x scaling or 3x scaling still give me the exact same size window, and the next time I open Graphic Mode Setup everything is set to default except the full-screen checkbox.
scaling does work but then you need to adjust the resolution too

i did some extensive testing with fantasy general, all to find that in the end aspect ratio scaling or integer scaling provided the best result

and not all games will react to
Posted June 23, 2020
Probably if the resultant resolution is bigger than the screen monitor resolution, dosbox will choose the previous valid resolution.

And It has to do with the windowresolution selected, and the scaler selected (normal2x, normal3x hq3x etc) and of course the monitor resolution.

the scaler acts before any additional scaling done according to the Fullresolution and Windowresolution settings under [sdl]

I am really not Not sure but I guess that the resultant windowed sizes are based in steps or in specific valid resolutions. But obviously I can only test if with the limitations of my own monitor 1366x768.

For example If windowresolution=original and scaler=normal3x the ouput resolution will be 960x600 (three times the original vga 320x200)

Which is perfect in both fullscreen and windowed for me based in my monitor size. Fitting fine my height in windows mode and crispy enough in fullscreen.
Post edited June 23, 2020 by Gudadantza
Posted June 24, 2020
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Gudadantza: Probably if the resultant resolution is bigger than the screen monitor resolution, dosbox will choose the previous valid resolution.
Okay, setting the window size seems to work. I hadn't been touching the resolution - it wasn't even showing as "original," just a blank. Scaling without setting a window size apparently just gives me a high-resolution postage stamp.
Posted June 24, 2020
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Gudadantza: Probably if the resultant resolution is bigger than the screen monitor resolution, dosbox will choose the previous valid resolution.
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MisterTim: Okay, setting the window size seems to work. I hadn't been touching the resolution - it wasn't even showing as "original," just a blank. Scaling without setting a window size apparently just gives me a high-resolution postage stamp.
I am glad it worked.

I'd like to be give more specific instructions about setting the perfect windowed resolution to fit the bet every monitor but I always end using he one works best for my rig, this is, windows resolution=original. Except in some cases.

Tweaking with scalers and setting resolution manually gives different results in bigger monitors keeping in mind that the windowresolution option acts after the scaler options. So it needs experimentation for every user. As different ways to achieve the wanted image.

Anyway if it can be useful for others, in this official link/wiki there is more exhaustive info about those kind of options.

https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Dosbox.conf

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