Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi John, > Though I cited Edit, and the mode suggestion might improve that, I > imagine that the improvement would be lost if I started a game or > anything else that runs in a graphical mode. As long as the game lets you make a CHOICE between several resolutions, you will again have the possi

Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-07 Thread John Hupp
Thanks, Eric. Though I cited Edit, and the mode suggestion might improve that, I imagine that the improvement would be lost if I started a game or anything else that runs in a graphical mode. In the meantime, I found this very dense thread on vogons.org: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=9

Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! If you are sure that this is not an issue of your VGA or HDMI or DVI cable to the monitor, then I assume that what you are seeing is an artifact of your screen trying to zoom from the default resolution of DOS text mode to the native resolution of the screen. You could use the MODE tool of DOS

[Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-07 Thread John Hupp
With FreeDOS 1.1 installed directly on real hardware, and testing with two different LCD monitors and at least half a dozen different video cards, I find that in every case there are vertical bands or fat lines across the screen, visible as fuzziness on the black & white display during boot, an