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Trying to play an old Windows XP-compatible game on a newer OS but the game keeps opening in a low resolution mode where only 1/4 of the game is visible on the screen

Sorry if this is not technically on topic, but it IS related to Windows XP because I am trying to play an old Windows XP-compatible game on a newer OS (Windows 11, bleh) but the game keeps opening in a low resolution mode where only 1/4 of the game is visible on the screen.

This game would play fine on a Windows XP machine, if I had one of those right now, but for now I just need to figure out what kind of shortcut arguments I need to use to force the game to open in such a way that it's not mostly off the screen.

I have already tried:

- Run in 640 x 840 screen resolution

- Disable fullscreen optimizations

- Change high DPI settings > Use this setting to prevent scaling problems

An argument in the Target path after the file path of -screen-width 1920 -screen-height 1080

Any ideas?

Posted Jun 4, 2026, 12:48 AM UTC

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