How do you play the low resolution games of old?

[Jaesun]

I play them on LCD in full screen and don't care about the ugly upscaled looks.

same here.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

You're not hardcore enough if you don't play games on a shimmering, flickering CRT!

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Windowed Dosbox + Normal3x or Normal3x. It's a shame there's no Normal4x filter, though.

 

[kazgar]

like a real man.

 

[Jvegi]

I only have a 17' CRT monitor, so yeah, I play all games on this "prestigious" setup. :criesalittle:

It would be nice to have a 15' one though, so I could finally play Darklands fullscreen, with readable font.

 

[mondblut]

Windowed, typically in 3x-4x native resolution, like 1280x800. Usually without scalers/filters.

 

[J_C]

Original scaling through my graphics card settings. I couldnt give less of a fuck about the black bars on the sides. Probably because I came up playing stuff like WoW with 15 fps. Graphics are completely seconday to me as long as they are not stretched too badly.

Same here. The black bar on the sides never bothered me, and I choose this option if possible.

With HQx or xBRZ

What are those?

 

[A user named cat]

Windowed Dosbox + Normal3x or Normal3x. It's a shame there's no Normal4x filter, though.

 

[deuxhero]

Windowed, because copy protection among other things. Maybe a simple "each pixel is now 4/16/64 pixels" upscale.

 

[Fowyr]

I have maybe five or six 15" and 17" CRT displays. They should last for some time.

 

[anus_pounder]

I'd like to know how you guys and girls play the oldschool games regarding the monitors and resolutions. Some games can be hacked and modded, to make them look good on a high resolution widescreen display, but there are tons of others (like Might and Magic games or most old 2D games) which can't.

Do you have an old CRT monitor and play on that? Or you play them on an LCD monitor, full screen, and bear with the shitty, upscaled and blurry image. Or you play it on an LCD, but in windowed mode bearing with a small window in the centre of the screen?

I don't play old outdated technologically limited games.

 

[Metro]

Windowed. Seriously, I laugh at all the faggots who rage when these older games don't have X resolution. No shit there's no high resolution -- game was made in the 80's. It is what it is, you don't play these games for the graphics.

 

[Severian Silk]

I play in fullscreen, scaled by whatever feels best. Sometimes scaled smaller than my 1080p monitor. If 16:9 is possible, I do that too. For instance, I played BG1 at 1366x768. I haven't played a DOS-era game since I bought my new monitor, though.

 

[groke]

Give me integer scaling or give me death.

(1200p LCD is the only modern :monocle: option because it's the lowest res that allows pixel-perfect stretching from 8:5 (320x200) to 4:3 (320x240))

Windowed Dosbox + Normal3x or Normal3x. It's a shame there's no Normal4x filter, though.

Can't you just set the window res to 1280x960?

 

[newtmonkey]

Actually I'm also thinking of getting an old CRT next to my LCD, so I could play all my classic games on it.

Definitely worth it! I bought a cheapass used 17" IBM monitor for ~20USD shipped, and running games in original res with no scaling looks wonderful on it. Instead of a blocky awful mess, Ultima 7 looks just as beautiful as I remember it from back in the day.

 

[Agesilaus]

I don't have trouble with 2d games, it's the games with 3d engines that suck. I don't bother playing with ancient 3d games.

A 2d game like Tongue of the Fat Man is a beautiful treasure no matter how you look at it

 

[J_C]

I don't have trouble with 2d games, it's the games with 3d engines that suck. I don't bother playing with ancient 3d games.

A 2d game like Tongue of the Fat Man is a beautiful treasure no matter how you look at it

I don't have problem with 3D engines, because most of them has some high resolution, widescreen mod.

 

[Alchemist]

Give me integer scaling or give me death.

(1200p LCD is the only modern :monocle: option because it's the lowest res that allows pixel-perfect stretching from 8:5 (320x200) to 4:3 (320x240))

I hadn't thought about this before but that gives me a good reason to hold on to my aging 1920 x 1200 LCD monitor as long as I can!

 

[Curious_Tongue]

 

[St Antony of Padua]

I have an old CRT 17" that I played some games like Planescape, arx fatalis, and the wizardry games. This was 2010 by the way. It wasn't by choice. All I had was an old compaq with a nvidia voodoo card. Arx ran like shit some places. I didn't mind the monitor. Everything worked as it should. I have a 17" laptop that I play all my games on now. I'll upscale a dosbox game but no filter. No need to mess with that shit. MoO still looks good to this day.

 

[TripJack]

Or you play them on an LCD monitor, full screen, and bear with the shitty, upscaled and blurry image.

this except without the shitty or blurry parts

 

[J_C]

Or you play them on an LCD monitor, full screen, and bear with the shitty, upscaled and blurry image.

this except without the shitty or blurry parts

Well sometimes you can't avoid tht on an LCD.