Hi all, i've not used mame for a year or two, got the latest version and i cant seem to get perfectly square pixels in certain games unless i use the Directdraw mode but i cant get this mode to work without a border most of the time.
I realize the huge amount of differing resolutions means you cant get true fullscreen with some games.
To simplify the situation, i can run Ghouls & Ghosts full screen in Direct3d or the GDI mode and it looks fine at first glance but you can see some pixels are slightly oblong, its not such a bad problem when the screen is static but when you start to move you can see the pixels sliding between squares and oblongs.
Running in DirectDraw mode solves all the pixel scaling problems but the game runs in a window with a large black border and i cant find any option which stretches this any further.
I've tried the auto modes, Pixel Aspect mode and i've tried manually setting the aspect ratio of my lcd to 5:4 but for certain games i just cant get square pixels without the border.
Some people will never notice this but i've always been fussy about clean scrolling and nice square pixels
Hope someone more informed can help.
Cheers
WD
I realize the huge amount of differing resolutions means you cant get true fullscreen with some games.
To simplify the situation, i can run Ghouls & Ghosts full screen in Direct3d or the GDI mode and it looks fine at first glance but you can see some pixels are slightly oblong, its not such a bad problem when the screen is static but when you start to move you can see the pixels sliding between squares and oblongs.
Running in DirectDraw mode solves all the pixel scaling problems but the game runs in a window with a large black border and i cant find any option which stretches this any further.
I've tried the auto modes, Pixel Aspect mode and i've tried manually setting the aspect ratio of my lcd to 5:4 but for certain games i just cant get square pixels without the border.
Some people will never notice this but i've always been fussy about clean scrolling and nice square pixels
Hope someone more informed can help.
Cheers
WD
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