Scale 640x480 image to full screen - games under Windows XP

[aeberbach]

Diablo III announced last week sparked some nostalgia and I pulled out Diablo to use in Windows XP full screen. When the game switches to 640x480 it's a postage stamp in the middle of a black 1600x1200 monitor.

- is scaling a function of the video adapter, i.e. VMWare SVGA II emulated adapter, can it be made to do this?

- is it a function of the monitor? The Dell 2007FP (A03) doesn't appear to support this. A CRT would do this by default.

Finally why doesn't ALT work - in Diablo it is used to bring up the names of things dropped in the game, doesn't work when the game is running in a Fusion XP session.

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- is scaling a function of the video adapter, i.e. VMWare SVGA II emulated adapter, can it be made to do this?

See : Fit Full Screen

- is it a function of the monitor? The Dell 2007FP (A03) doesn't appear to support this. A CRT would do this by default.

We're not actually changing the video mode, it's still in 1600x1200 (just with a 640x480 window in the middle of the screen). You could change the monitor resolution, but I think it would be better to use Fusion's scaling.

[aeberbach]

Great! It is noted that it doesn't work in 2.0b1 but I'm looking forward to trying this out in the next beta (or if I go back a version just for this feature).