How can I get "true" 720p windowed resolution?

[Lodey]

As some of you know, when you set a windowed resolution, there is no option to select a particular size. What I ended up with is 1216x684, which is pretty irregular and not ideal for what I use Dolphin for. Ideally, I'd like to have it in 1280x720 windowed so I can stream at a widely accepted resolution and not have to worry about letterboxing.

Is there any way to do this? Maybe in the GUI? I have the option of 720p in fullscreen, just not windowed. Also, is there any way to remove the vertical pillar boxes n Dolphin itself?

[Garteal]

To setup Dolphin to a specific resolution in windowed mode do the following:

Go to your Dolphin configuration folder. This is in My Documents/Dolphin Emulator by default if you haven't changed it.
Enter the Config directory and open up Dolphin.ini.

Search for the following and set the resolution you want.

Code:

RenderWindowWidth = 1280
RenderWindowHeight = 720

[Lodey]

I don't know if it worked, despite me changing it. I still get borders which make the inner window smaller than 720p.

1296x758 was recommended to get around it, but it still doesn't extend wide enough. My monitor is 1280 in width, and PC games will not scale the game to fit my screen, so I can fit games on my screen perfectly with no pixels missing. Dolphin's resolution apparently includes the border for some reason. I don't like this behavior.

Any potential fixes for this? I've tried dragging the window so that it fills up the screen horizontally, but I still get 3-4 pixels on each side and there seems to be a "lock" on how far I can drag it...even if I drag the window to the left and try to extend the right side of the window so that it's bigger. It won't let me stretch it beyond what it believes is my maximum screen width.

[mbc07]

I may be wrong, but as far as I know, GC/Wii doesn't use standard resolutions, that's why you don't get exact values.

EDIT: have you tried "Auto adjust window size" option?

[Lodey]

I may be wrong, but as far as I know, GC/Wii doesn't use standard resolutions, that's why you don't get exact values.

EDIT: have you tried "Auto adjust window size" option?

Yeah I have, it sets it to the internal resolution (too big).

[RachelB]

Did you try using auto adjust window size, starting at the IR you want, then turning it off, and changing the IR?

[JobeStroud]

If changing it manually actually affected something. I am running 720p myself. You will want to change it so 1360 x 768. Sounds weird but this is how I have to run "720p" on my LG though my computer.

[pauldacheez]

>Also, is there any way to remove the vertical pillar boxes n Dolphin itself?

You'd have to set "Aspect Ratio" to "16:9" or "Stretch to Window", optionally enabling the honestly-pretty-awful Widescreen Hack for 4:3-only games.

Apart from that, I'm pretty sure you can't get around the window size issue too easily with that monitor. Why the flying fuck is your monitor only 1280x{800,960,1024}, anyway? You can afford a bigger one, and if you can't you should find something more productive to do than stream games.

[RachelB]

Why the flying fuck is your monitor only 1280x{800,960,1024}, anyway? You can afford a bigger one, and if you can't you should find something more productive to do than stream games.

You probably shouldn't make assumptions about people like that. I use a 1600x900 monitor because i can't afford to replace it, and there's not a single more productive thing i could do than play games all day.

[pauldacheez]

Aww, the "Basically Hitler" thing doesn't allow me to be completely unreasonable and insensitive to people? :<

Also, no, you could probably be doing something more productive, at least from what little I know. With your skill you should easily be able to land a programming job or a video game QA job (try Bethesda, you're probably smarter than their whole QA team) (also, hint, don't report bugs that might be useful for TAS). If there's anything blocking you, try and see if you can get that out of the way!