Scale up resolution

Feb 12, 2009, 3:55 am

#1

skunk

Joined: Feb 12, 2009
Posts: 1

Any way to scale up the resolution of IVAN? I play mostly on a very pixel-dense screen and I can barely make out stuff most of the time.

Feb 12, 2009, 4:44 am

#2

The Imperialist

Joined: Dec 2, 2007
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Not that I'm aware of. what about setting your desktop resolution to 800x600 while you play? That will be a pain in the ass but it's better than not being able to see what you are doing

Feb 12, 2009, 5:06 am

#3

Ex-Tyrant of the IVANers

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You can always play fullscreen. I avoid it myself as it makes the game run much more quickly, which while not normally a problem makes it difficult to cancel mid-run.

"Put more stuff in the... thing where... more stuff goes in."

Feb 9, 2014, 2:42 pm

#4

skunk

Joined: Feb 9, 2014
Posts: 1

I made an account just to ask:

Is there any more news on higher game resolutions?

I have 2 monitors and need to switch between playing IVAN and other stuff. So fullscreen or reducing screen resolution won't work.

Only thing I can think of is running it in a VM...

Feb 25, 2014, 5:21 pm

#5

wolf

Joined: Feb 20, 2012
Posts: 231

AnannFay wrote

Only thing I can think of is running it in a VM...

Dedicating an entire VM to IVAN would certainly be overkill.

You can use DOSbox:

Get DOSbox and download the DOS version of IVAN from ivan.sourceforge.net
Open dosbox-0.74.conf (or click the DOSbox Options .bat which will open the .conf file)
In the [render] section of the dosbox .conf file, change
```
scaler = normal2x
```
to
```
scaler = normal2x forced
```
Run IVAN from DOSbox and it should upscale it 2x (or you could use the normal3x scaler if you have some sort of obscenely high resolution monitor)