Zoom in on a game with small resolution?

[Kdar]

So, I am playing Eschalon Book 1 in a windowed mode, it have small resolution (not widescreen too) and playing it on my 24" monitor sometimes not very comfortable.
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I also can't play it on fullscreen, since it stretches from letterbox to widescreen, so the game doesn't look right this way.

Can I zoom in somehow on this window?
Or how can I play this game fullscreen without stretching and distortion?

[Simian Man]

If you have compiz, you can zoom in on any window with one of the zoom plugins.

[Kdar]

How I could forgot about this!
Thanks.

But do you know it possible to have a 4:3 fullscreen with a widescreen monitor? Kind of like when you watch 4:3 movie on Widescreen.

[Simian Man]

You can probably set your monitor to a 4:3 resolution, but you will likely lose a lot of pixels. My laptop's 1440x900 monitor can go down to 1024x768 which is 4:3.

Unless I misunderstand you?

[violence.of.the.clams]

So, I am playing Eschalon Book 1 in a windowed mode, it have small resolution (not widescreen too) and playing it on my 24" monitor sometimes not very comfortable.
.
I also can't play it on fullscreen, since it stretches from letterbox to widescreen, so the game doesn't look right this way.

Can I zoom in somehow on this window?
Or how can I play this game fullscreen without stretching and distortion?

move ur face closer 2 the monitor?

[Kdar]

move ur face closer 2 the monitor?

ever heard that it's not good for eye's health? lol

[2Karl]

I personally prefer having the black bars either side when playing 4:3 games on a wide screen monitor. Stretching the pixels out never looks right. Check your monitor, there may be a "4:3 stretch mode" or something similar.

[Kdar]

I personally prefer having the black bars either side when playing 4:3 games on a wide screen monitor. Stretching the pixels out never looks right. Check your monitor, there may be a "4:3 stretch mode" or something similar.

yes, I am looking for something like this. I will check if I have this mode.

[Kdar]

Just found an option in Nvidia settings that allows to do this.

Under GPU Scaling Method, I choose "Aspect Ratio Scaled" from "Stretched", which was by default