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While it technically works, having to choose between fucking up my resolution or playing with an enormous black border isn't what I'd call actually working. How can there not be some way to run it in a window?
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NovaStalker: While it technically works, having to choose between fucking up my resolution or playing with an enormous black border isn't what I'd call actually working. How can there not be some way to run it in a window?
I got part way there by adding a -w argument to the program. Unfortunately then it's a window inside a window and the inner window has a big black border, but you can move it and shrink the outer window. Still far from ideal. If you have linux you can play in wine with a virtual desktop window.
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NovaStalker: While it technically works, having to choose between fucking up my resolution or playing with an enormous black border isn't what I'd call actually working. How can there not be some way to run it in a window?
I haven't tried King of Dragon Pass yet myself, but usually you can fix resolution problems like this under your graphics card settings. Look for something related to "scaling options" and make sure that scaling is enabled. I personally like to use the option "preserve aspect ratio" which will use black bars on the sides rather than trying to "stretch" 4:3 games into a widescreen view, distorting the image.

Unfortunately, many old games were coded with 4:3 aspect ratios only, so it's not possible to extend them into "true" widescreen without stretching them. So black bars on the sides may be unavoidable, but you should be able to get the game to fill the full vertical space on your screen without any trouble.


EDIT: Just saw elsewhere on this forum that the graphics card scaling may not fix the issue. Try the suggestion in this thread insead:

http://www.gog.com/forum/king_of_dragon_pass/resolution_issues
Post edited June 23, 2013 by Waltorious
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NovaStalker: While it technically works, having to choose between fucking up my resolution or playing with an enormous black border isn't what I'd call actually working. How can there not be some way to run it in a window?
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Waltorious: I haven't tried King of Dragon Pass yet myself, but usually you can fix resolution problems like this under your graphics card settings. Look for something related to "scaling options" and make sure that scaling is enabled. I personally like to use the option "preserve aspect ratio" which will use black bars on the sides rather than trying to "stretch" 4:3 games into a widescreen view, distorting the image.

Unfortunately, many old games were coded with 4:3 aspect ratios only, so it's not possible to extend them into "true" widescreen without stretching them. So black bars on the sides may be unavoidable, but you should be able to get the game to fill the full vertical space on your screen without any trouble.

EDIT: Just saw elsewhere on this forum that the graphics card scaling may not fix the issue. Try the suggestion in this thread insead:

http://www.gog.com/forum/king_of_dragon_pass/resolution_issues
Unfortunately that guy is just saying he rathers have his resolution set to 640x480 which is what I was referring to as "fucked up" in my first post. The problem is if it's set to that you can't alt tab out and have your desktop at the normal resolution. I may be in the minority but I use alt tab a lot so while the game looks better when it's taking up most of your screen it also makes my computer unusable until I quit.
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NovaStalker: Unfortunately that guy is just saying he rathers have his resolution set to 640x480 which is what I was referring to as "fucked up" in my first post. The problem is if it's set to that you can't alt tab out and have your desktop at the normal resolution. I may be in the minority but I use alt tab a lot so while the game looks better when it's taking up most of your screen it also makes my computer unusable until I quit.
Ah, I understand now. Unfortunately, it's not possible to simply increase the resolution of an old game. It runs at 640x480, and apparently did not support windowed mode natively (which was not uncommon for games at that time).

There are some older games for which fans have made high-resolution patches (like Arcanum, for example) but these are basically hacks or mods and GOG does not have authority to include them with the games (except in rare cases when the mod is needed to get the game to work, like for the early Thief games). Also I do not know if anyone every made a high-res mod for King of Dragon Pass.
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NovaStalker: Unfortunately that guy is just saying he rathers have his resolution set to 640x480 which is what I was referring to as "fucked up" in my first post. The problem is if it's set to that you can't alt tab out and have your desktop at the normal resolution. I may be in the minority but I use alt tab a lot so while the game looks better when it's taking up most of your screen it also makes my computer unusable until I quit.
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Waltorious: Ah, I understand now. Unfortunately, it's not possible to simply increase the resolution of an old game. It runs at 640x480, and apparently did not support windowed mode natively (which was not uncommon for games at that time).

There are some older games for which fans have made high-resolution patches (like Arcanum, for example) but these are basically hacks or mods and GOG does not have authority to include them with the games (except in rare cases when the mod is needed to get the game to work, like for the early Thief games). Also I do not know if anyone every made a high-res mod for King of Dragon Pass.
Yeah, I don't know about anything involved in a high res mod or anything like that so I may be saying something stupid when I say I just want something that stretches the 640x480 out to any kind of larger 4:3 window. It's all artwork so it doesn't suffer the same way other games with old graphics would.
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NovaStalker: Yeah, I don't know about anything involved in a high res mod or anything like that so I may be saying something stupid when I say I just want something that stretches the 640x480 out to any kind of larger 4:3 window. It's all artwork so it doesn't suffer the same way other games with old graphics would.
That's beyond my knowledge unfortunately. I know that DOSBox can do that, using scalers, but I don't know of any way to apply scalers when you're not running an emulation program. Anyone else know?
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Waltorious: Ah, I understand now. Unfortunately, it's not possible to simply increase the resolution of an old game. It runs at 640x480, and apparently did not support windowed mode natively (which was not uncommon for games at that time).

There are some older games for which fans have made high-resolution patches (like Arcanum, for example) but these are basically hacks or mods and GOG does not have authority to include them with the games (except in rare cases when the mod is needed to get the game to work, like for the early Thief games). Also I do not know if anyone every made a high-res mod for King of Dragon Pass.
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NovaStalker: Yeah, I don't know about anything involved in a high res mod or anything like that so I may be saying something stupid when I say I just want something that stretches the 640x480 out to any kind of larger 4:3 window. It's all artwork so it doesn't suffer the same way other games with old graphics would.
As far as I know, that's the resolution the art was drawn at. You can't actually change the scale.