DOOM at its original resolution without any scaling or enlarging.Īs I mentioned, these settings are my personal preference, so you may want to experiment to find settings that look good to you and give you the performance you want. It’s amazing how much information game artists were able to cram into so few pixels. Just for comparison, here is DOOM at its original resolution. DOOM enlarged with no enhancement or scaling. The results vary depending on what’s being displayed on the screen, but something is better than nothing. Notice how the large red numbers in the screenshots below are pixellated in the first image but smoothed out in the second image with hq3x scaling. hq3x scales the image up 300%, but it can make things look a bit “cartoon-ish” because it smooths pixellated edges. This will depend on your personal preference and the speed of your hardware. Right after that I like to change scaler=normal2x to scaler=hq3x. To do this I change the aspect=false line to aspect=true. Once the output is set to ddraw, we can enable aspect correction and scaling. Some DOS resolutions do not use square pixels, so aspect ratio correction keeps these games from looking “squished” on the screen (old CRT monitors did not have a fixed number of pixels, so this was not an issue back in the day).
Next I change output=surface to output=ddraw to allow for scaling and aspect ratio correction. If your monitor is different, be sure to use its resolution (e.g. Open the nf file via the Start menu.įirst, I change the line that says fullresolution=original to fullresolution=1920x1080, which is my monitor’s native resolution. These settings can be changed by opening the DOSBox Options from the Start menu. The nf file controls how DOSBox displays old games and software. The editting of "Target:" was to tell DOSBox to use that specific configuration file instead of the default one, thus, running those specific commandlines when opened.Compared to today’s high-definition games, DOS games used low resolutions, so playing old games in DOSBox on a modern LCD monitor or HDTV is not an optimal experience without some configuration. I never touched the default configuration file that DOSBox uses. With this, I can have multiple shortcuts that only launch games and another shortcut just for the DOSBox prompt.įor example, I have a configuration file for Wolfenstein 3D and Daggerfall seperetly. What I did different is making a seperate configuration file ONLY for Daggerfall (You can do this with any game) so that I can still make other shortcuts for other games. I myself play multiple games using DOSBox, so this was an issue. I found this to be annoying because it pretty much limits DOSBox to only that one game and purpose. ThePilgrim used the default configuration file for all of DOSBox, meaning that if you opened DOSBox at all, those commands would run automatically. Where it starts to differ is how he makes his commandlines. We used different directories n all that but it's pretty much the same thing but in my own words. The installation process is the same thing. If it does, good, if it doesn't, read this again carefully to find your mistake. Then you must choose midi-device manually. Choose auto-detect digital device and then choose test to find out if it worked. If you havent tried this yet, you should do it: go to Dagegrfall folder and run SETUP.
To make sure it works, type in "DAGGER" to make sure the game boots up. My Daggerfall is running properly on xp, I used a special installer to istall it. It'll ask you for another yes or no question after this, type in "y"
Once it boots you back to the DOSBox prompt, type in "dag213", then type in "y".
Press enter until you get booted back into the DOSBox prompt (Use Arrow keys for this) Go into "Select Midi" and look for "SoundBlaster 16". It should ask you to configure your soundcard once it's done.
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Now the game's install screen should appear. (No, you can't Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V this, you gotta type it) Mount d c:\DOS\Daggerfall\dfcd -t cdrom -label Daggerfall Make sure to spell it right or else it won't work: Open the DOSBox shortcut you made to the desktop and type these commands into it.