Author Topic: Stretching FF8 (Read 3480 times)

trickstar66 · « **on:** 2004-07-09 18:07:10 »

I was playing FF8 on my old PC and wanted to know if it is possbile to stretch the quarter screen mode to full screen. I don't care if it's pixelated. I'm used to using CVGS so it doesn't matter. I just don't like using CVGS because I don't like what my CD-RW drive has been doing to the disks recently. My PC works better with the PC version as well. I could really use some help on this. Thanks!

Yare · « **Reply #1 on:** 2004-07-09 18:52:29 »

Well, you could try to hex-edit the calls the game makes when setting the window size and replace the values with something you like more. There's no telling how the game would respond to it. Sometimes games are coded in relation to an exact window size, and sometimes they're written in relation to current window width/height.

Somebody might have already written a tool for what you're trying to do, though.

Alhexx · « **Reply #2 on:** 2004-07-09 20:49:33 »

Better don't touch it... I think some of us have already tried that, and I even remember myself trying exactly that ... however, I can't remember if it was FF7 or FF8...

- Alhexx

- edit -
Now I remember ... it was FF7. However, I had no success. I remember SaiNt told that this is not that easy at all, since you would have to resize all the menus, fonts etc. to fit the new screen size... :isee:

The SaiNt · « **Reply #3 on:** 2004-07-10 10:34:09 »

Quarter screen?
I thought FF8PC can be played in Full Screen Mode already?

Messiah99 · « **Reply #4 on:** 2004-07-10 11:37:25 »

Quote from: The SaiNt

Quarter screen?
I thought FF8PC can be played in Full Screen Mode already?

It does. As for why this is even an issue, I kinda wondered myself. :erm:

Aaron · « **Reply #5 on:** 2004-07-10 15:34:02 »

You can set it to play in quarter-screen mode. While this may seem silly to some people, when you're playing on an older computer that doesn't have 3D accelleration (or has crappy 3D accelleration), this may be to only way to get reasonable speeds.

When I first got FF8, I played it on my 400 MHz laptop that didn't have 3D accelleration, and playing in quarter-screen mode was fine but it was real slow full-screen. I also looked into the possibility of using pixel doubling to get the image to full-screen but keep the good performance, but never found a way to do it.