Graphical issues with some Pinball games

[Kappa971]

Are you using the latest Dosbox-Staging Version?

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Different version than latest?

0.79.0-alpha-220-ga2df5

What Operating System are you using?

Windows 11

Whats your question and how can we help?

Hi, I would like to show you some graphical issues I have encountered with Pinball Dreams Deluxe, Pinball Fantasies Deluxe and Pinball Illusions. I haven't marked it as a "bug" as I don't know if all the problems are due to DOSBox or the games themselves. I used the latest alpha version from the main branch, to make sure those problems were still present.

Pinball Dreams Deluxe Pinball Dreams Deluxe uses two video modes: low-res 320x200 and high-res 320x350 (which DOSBox indicates as VGA 640x350 8-bit (mode 13h)). Let's start with the first: With aspect = true, low-res mode is displayed incorrectly, everything is stretched vertically

In this case the solution is simple, set aspect = false

Unfortunately the same solution doesn't work for the 320x350 high-res mode, as the image is extremely stretched horizontally, occupying the entire viewing area of the 16:9 screen. The image will be stretched horizontally even with aspect = true:

Pinball Fantasies Deluxe Pinball Fantasies Deluxe uses two video modes: low-res 320x240 and high-res 320x350. It contains two games: Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Mania.

In Pinball Fantasies, setting machine = svga_s3, the colors in the main menu are wrong

With machine = vgaonly the correct colors will be shown.

Low-res mode is displayed correctly with both aspect = true and aspect = false

High-res mode is displayed stretched horizontally (aspect = true) like Pinball Dreams Deluxe:

Pinball Mania behaves the same way: Low-res

High-res

Pinball Illusions Pinball Illusion supports 320x240, 360x350, 640x480, 800x600 video modes. 320x240 mode displays correctly (right side is slightly cropped, but I think that's intended):

360x350 mode is stretched horizontally:

The 640x480 and 800x600 modes, setting machine = svga_s3, are completely broken: 640x480 800x600

However, if you set machine = svga_et3000, they are displayed correctly: 640x480 800x600

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[petran79]

Exiting Psycho Pinball forces Dosbox Staging to close too. This on a W10 machine with a new monitor. On Linux though I have a CRT monitor connected with full screen and switch res enabled. There when exiting the game Dosbox Staging does not exit but switches resolution back to before launching the game. In-game it switches to 640x480 in menus and low res tables and 800x600 for high res tables. But this is not happening on the WIndows machine where the newer monitor does not switch res natively like the CRT monitor.

[johnnovak]

Exiting Psycho Pinball forces Dosbox Staging to close too. This on a W10 machine with a new monitor. On Linux though I have a CRT monitor connected with full screen and switch res enabled. There when exiting the game Dosbox Staging does not exit but switches resolution back to before launching the game. In-game it switches to 640x480 in menus and low res tables and 800x600 for high res tables. But this is not happening on the WIndows machine where the newer monitor does not switch res natively like the CRT monitor.

@petran79 Raise a new ticket please and fill out the issue template.