/vr/ - Retro Games

If anyone wants to try out Quake (or any other game where you can set a custom resolution) in Doom's 20% taller aspect ratio here's how:
>get a program called Lossless Scaling (it's paid software, but you can find it for free if you look hard enough)
>put the game in windowed mode
>set the game's vertical resolution to what you want x0.8 (i.e. instead of 1080 use 864)
>under scaling mode in Lossless Scaling, set it to fullscreen instead of aspect ratio
>optional: set scaling mode to nearest neighbor (seems to look best for this)
>activate scaling
I haven't tried other games, but it works pretty well in Quake, and you don't need a specific port like what that other anon was posting earlier. You can change vertical resolution in Ironwail and some other ports with vid_height followed by vid_restart.