How do I enlarge a game but not make it full screen?

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How to stretch or scale a windows to fit resolution height and width sizes?

I'm playing a game in windowed mode, unfortunately my screen is huge 2560x1440 or something and the game window is tiny. If I use fullscreen it blows up and looks atrocious. I just want to enlarge the window by 2x or 3x.

I'm using the windows magnifier option but moving my mouse around makes the screen zoom around unusably. Is there a way to just magnify one program/window and fix it?

Mark

Posted 2011-10-12T21:32:02.033

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Question was closed 2011-10-18T04:02:12.343

@TomWijsman - IMO, Same question: "I need some software to stretch or scale a windows to fit resolution sizes." vs. "Is there a way to just magnify one program/window and fix it?", even if the accepted answer doesn't quite match this case 100%, there are others to check and consider. But hey, that's why it takes 5 to close. :) – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2011-10-12T21:43:14.100

It might help if you're more specific about the game - certain rendering engines will choke and die even if you have some other way of doing this. I know Diablo II is impossible to enlarge without modifying it, for example - you can't scale it internally any other way and I'm under the impression zooming it causes the 2D drawing mechanisms to act weird. – Shinrai – 2011-10-12T21:46:20.693

@Shinrai : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELF_Corporation#YU-NO

– Mark – 2011-10-12T21:50:13.047

@Mark - Well that explains the lack of resolution-shifting support. Something that simple you can probably get by with a zoom app (I unfortunately don't know of a universal one for Windows that behaves as desired, but I see you have a neat workaround at least) – Shinrai – 2011-10-12T22:54:38.763

So, now it is a duplicate... – Tamara Wijsman – 2011-10-12T23:03:12.393

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Mark mentioned:

I set 'magnify follow' to follow text insertion.

Since my game doesn't have any text insertion the screen doesn't move around. Yay.

Tamara Wijsman

Posted 2011-10-12T21:32:02.033

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The game is from 1996, it has a resolution of really tiny. I want to make it bigger. – Mark – 2011-10-12T21:37:47.393

1Thanks, but that's not a good solution for me at the moment, I need the rest of my computer. – Mark – 2011-10-12T21:44:18.947

Well I call it a game, but it's more like a book... It's a visual novel. Thanks for your help though. – Mark – 2011-10-12T21:49:58.257

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