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Force a resolution on older Windows programs?
Name: Scoilt (by scoilt) Date: July 16, 2009 at 07:20:04 Pacific OS: Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 CPU/Ram: Core 2 Duo E7400 2.8GHz / 3GB DDR2 800MHZ Subcategory: Software Problems
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I just purchased a Dell Studio Slim for use as an HTPC. I have an ATI Radeon HD 4350 512MB attached to my Viewsonic HD LCD TV (can't remember the model number) via HDMI. My TV appears to only support certain resolutions over HDMI (1920x1080, 1366x768, etc.). The TV will display other resolutions (800x600, 1024x768, etc.) but the screen will be completely magenta and shades of magenta. Here's my question: Is there a way to force older Windows programs (games) to run at a certain resolution not supported by that program? Some way to force hardware scaling? The problem is that older games will force the screen resolution to an unsupported resolution on the TV. Alternately, is there a way to force a full screen program to run in a window then? Alternately, what about being able to resize a window when a program does support running in windowed mode? Hacks, programs, etc. would be great. I can run a 25 year old DOS game in DOSBOX and apply hardware scaling to display the game at 1080P, but I can't get a five year old Windows game to run (unless I want the screen to be an unreadable magenta - possibly damaging the TV? - or in window that is way too small to view on a TV...
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