Recently I've been having trouble playing certain older games. For example
- Eador: Genisis
- Disciples II

Because my laptop switches to 640x480, but then immediately switches back and won't stay in that resolution. When it switches back it tabs me out of the game.

Eador: Genisis will play windowed just fine, but I would much prefer it to play full screen.

I've played around with computability mode.

Any suggestions?

without knowing more about your setup, no, no suggestions.

Neither of those are DOS/Dosbox so scaling options on that won't do it.


At an off chance, create a shortcut to the program and add /? after the app. I've seen multiple programs recognize that as asking for parameters.

Course if you go to the command-line you can do the same thing.

Sorry for being Capt Obvious, but just to rule it out... I assume you tried the Compatibility tab??? There's a box to check there to run applications in 640X480 mode, and choosing Windows XP in the compatibility choices might have an impact.

EDIT: NEVERMIND. I just saw the last line in your post. My bad.

Could you post which graphics card your laptop has? (or it's just on board graphics), as with a graphics card there may be some settings in it's control panel that may help.

Try running your games in borderless window. You can use DxWnd, for example.

I vaguely remember that I was using on my laptop DxWnd for Eador: Genesis (despite its name, I used it to play in full screen) to deal with resolution problem and it worked absolutely fine. So I would recommend using it:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/

You could try it with Disciples 2, buut if it won't cooperate, I would try with dgvoodoo, helped me multiple times with games that by some reason didn't want to "keep" the resolution I wished to have (you need to set adequate settings to "force" the resolution):

http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/

There are also alternatives, such as DDrawCompat (I recommend this one as well, but there are big changes amongst versions - for example 0.4.0 was not too useful for me, in opposite to 0.3.2 which helped me with playing old Bust-a-Move style game from Raptisoft)