How to make windows 95/98 games full screen on windows xp?

[_FN10_]

Its hard to play doom95 while straining my eyes.

 

[tech3475]

For games like Doom, there are newer ways to play the game.

Otherwise maybe try something like alt+enter.

 

[Kazesama]

could try running doom in retroarch

 

[Jokey_Carrot]

are you running it at 640x480? should be an option for it somewhere.

 

[BigOnYa]

You could also look at your Scaling options in your video card advanced settings.

 

[_FN10_]

Im running it in virtual box and it sets the resolution very small.

 

[ILuvGames]

Im running it in virtual box and it sets the resolution very small.

Maybe an old version of GZDoom would be better for you (I think CrispyDoom supports XP as well). The last versions of GZDoom that ran on Windows XP (4-1-2b or older) are here :-

https://zdoom.org/files/gzdoom/bin/

 

[_FN10_]

Heres what happens, oh and sim city 2000 works because its a window based game, and you can see theme hospital also does it.

Maybe an old version of GZDoom would be better for you (I think CrispyDoom supports XP as well). The last versions of GZDoom that ran on Windows XP (4-1-2b or older) are here :-

https://zdoom.org/files/gzdoom/bin/

i dont just care about doom, im talking about most windows 95 games in virtual box.

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Here is what happens with doom and theme hospital. Simcity2000 works because it is a windowed game.

 

[ILuvGames]

Heres what happens, oh and sim city 2000 works because its a window based game, and you can see theme hospital also does it.

i dont just care about doom, im talking about most windows 95 games in virtual box.

Post automatically merged: Apr 9, 2023

Here is what happens with doom and theme hospital. Simcity2000 works because it is a windowed game.

Ok. Now I understand. Sorry I can't help.

 

[Hayato213]

did you install guest additions?

 

[_FN10_]

did you install guest additions?

yes

 

[Hayato213]

yes

You should be able to resize vm resolution.

 

[_FN10_]

You should be able to resize vm resolution.

yes i can, it is in the video, it sets the resilotion to be that small, idk why.

 

[Hayato213]

yes i can, it is in the video, it sets the resilotion to be that small, idk why.

You should able to change it if it give you something like 640x480

 

[_FN10_]

You should able to change it if it give you something like 640x480

i updated the res in the game, but it tucks it self in the corner, and theme hospital doesnt even show up at all!

 

[ILuvGames]

i updated the res in the game, but it tucks it self in the corner, and theme hospital doesnt even show up at all!

In the view menu there are scaling settings. I used those myself just now and got Doom95 to go almost full screen with a resolution scaling of 175% once it started running. Doom95 won't go above 640x480 anyway. The only other thing I did was to disable visual themes in the compatibility section of doom95's properties.