Hi, when I run Priv 2 the video has black lines running across the video, making it hard to see what's happening. Is there any video options for the game in it? I found Alt O but that doesn't affect any video settings that I could find.

Help! :) Please. Anyone else have that problem?

Thanks for your insights

bcasner

It's not a problem, unfortunately. That's the way it's always been. Squinting helps ;-)

It can apparently be improved by changing the dosbox output settings. No idea what settings should be changed to though.

One thing to make sure: the video's *should* be interlaced with a regular pattern, one row of pixels video, one row of pixels black, one row of pixels video, etc.) that should not be too distracting. I noticed that on my monitor at least (16:10 widescreen) with default settings it looked like ... a complete mess. This is fixable by tweaking the DOSBox config. Exact settings differ depending on which result you'd want to end up with and where you'd want upscaling to take place.

Can you copy and paste the section/s that need to be tweaked? So I have a better idea what to look for?

Sure, but first of all this is probably only relevant if you have a widescreen monitor, second it depends on personal preference. I like my 'old school' games as close to 1:1 pixel mapped as possible, no stretching, no antialiasing. But here are my settings for that (only the relevant parts), for a 1920x1200 monitor. Let me know how they work out:

[sdl]
fullscreen=true
fullresolution=desktop
output=overlay

[render]
aspect=false
scaler=none

If your desktop resolution is not set to your monitor resolution you could have also used:

fullresolution=1920x1200

This will run the video's full screen(ish) and planet scenes and spaceflight 'pillarboxed' (black bars on the sides) If you don't mind stretching the screen to fill up your full monitor, use:

fullresolution=1600x1200

Which is a 4:3 resolution using my monitor's full height, where in my case the monitor will do the horizontal stretching. You could also let DOSBox (or perhaps your graphics card) do that at a minor performance cost and possible slightly different effect.

Thanks I just need to set this up for a 1366x768.

Been trying to do the same thing with Tomb Raider 1 as well, with no luck so far.

Doesn't Tomb Raider use a Glide/3Dfx-patched version of DOSBox? Because in that case resolution is set elsewhere. Are you running the 3Dfx version?

Ya its the 3dfx. I've tried modifying the glide.ini. But for whatever reason it doesn't seem to be changing anything at all. Still looks like stretched 640x480 blurry pixels.

Ok, for 1366x768 in privateer 2.

It seems setting aspect to 'false', scaler to none. Full resolution to 1366x768.

Seems to offer mostly full screen for the movies, and about 4:3 pillared box for the game itself. Seems like a good balance.

The interlace looks spaced correctly.

One last post about TR as it's off-topic (you should ask in the other forum), but I believe you cannot change anything about the game's output resolution; that will always remain 640x480 (or similar). The only thing you can influence is where the upscaling takes place. I would advise setting 1024x768 in glide.ini and trying to set either your monitor to 1:1 pixel mapped or in-aspect scaled for that resolution or the same with your graphics cards settings (I believe Nvidia cards can do this).But it will alwaysbe either stretched or pillar boxed, no way around it unless there is a 3rd party patch or trick to change Tomb Raider's output.

Found a fix for it ... Go into the directory till you find the file dosbox_privateer2 and then to the render section and change aspect=true to aspect=false. Gets rid of the black lines completely!

Hey bcasner!

I'm having the same issue as yourself, and it's driving me nuts!
I followed your suggestions and have found three dosbox_privateer2 files in the "Privateer 2 - The Darkening" directory..
dosbox_privateer2.conf
dosbox_privateer2_settings.conf, and;
dosbox_privateer2_single.conf

Few queries:
1) Did you have all three of these?
2) If so, which one did you edit?

I've found [sdl], [ipx] etc. sections in "dosbox_privateer2_settings.conf" file but there was no [render] section.
I added the following text to the file

[render]
aspect=false

but it did not work. I even tried "aspect=true" which also did not work!

Thanks! :)

"dosbox_privateer2.conf "

I believe this is the one you'll need to edit. It's the main dosbox settings I think.

http://www.wcnews.com/chatzone/threads/breaking-news-the-darkening-on-gog-september-19-2013.27083/#post-384880

This looks promising, apparently some WC fans are working on a de-interlace patch. I wonder if they'll go to the possibility of adding high quality videos in the future as well?

How is the sound quality on those videos? Seeing as they were apparently on VHS?