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This easily beats the jerryrigged script I was having to run to change toggle DPI settings, reset my graphics card to get them to apply before and after running BigBox. Plus this does everything even better. I am searching desperately how to donate as this is handsdown the best LaunchBox plugin. If you are using even one marquee, this will instantly fix all of your issues and not require coding nonsense. By the way, below is the nasty PowerShell script I wrote years ago to fix my marquee woes. Hat's off to the developer! # VARIABLES # You can find the registry setting we are targetting in regedit under HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\PerMonitorSettings # # - This is not in the registry until you have run it at least once already. # - It defines which monitor you are targeting if there is more than one. # - In versions of Windows prior to Windows 10, it appears that the DPI value is stored in HKCU:\Control Panel\Desktop with the value LogPixels. # - Versions of Windows prior to Windows 10 also require a restart. # - There is useful information here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Batch/comments/4665jq/how_to_change_windows_10_display_scaling_via/d03gt72/ # # To find the MonitorID for your primary display, go to Device Manager and under Monitors, right click the Monitor You Want to Change the DPI on. # Select "Properties" under the dropdown menu. Go the Details tab and under properties, select "Hardware Ids". Note the 7 digit alphanumeric code (e.g. # ROW00000). You will need this later on. # Now run regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\ScaleFactors. Under this section, find the key/folder # that begins with the same 7-digit alphanumeric code you noted earlier. Copy that entire MonitorID and replace it with the one below. $MonitorIDA = "SGT02800_32_07E2_09^AD0D99D1376DEF62E0BBC3A8321C7737" $MonitorIDB = "ROW00000_19_07E0_E1^9AEC406B952C6F1BB1AD2DC261E55418" # Location on your computer of BigBox.exe $EXEPath = "C:\LaunchBox\Core\BigBox.exe" # Restart the video driver function Restart-VideoDriver { param ( [Parameter(Mandatory)][string]$GPUID ) # Enables then disables GPU driver. Get-PnpDevice -FriendlyName $GPUID | Disable-PnpDevice -Confirm:$False Get-PnpDevice -FriendlyName $GPUID | Enable-PnpDevice -Confirm:$False } # Set the DPI scaling function Set-DPIScaling { param ( [Parameter(Mandatory)][string]$MonitorID, [Parameter(Mandatory)][int]$ScalingLevel ) <# Scaling levels: These change dependent on the screen. My Surface Pro 7's built-in screen has its default or recommended scaling level as 200%. 0 is the default or recommended setting. Whole number increments correspond with 25% increases in scaling level. In the case of my Surface, this would be some of the scaling levels: -4 = 100% -3 = 125% -2 = 150% -1 = 175% 0 = 200% 1 = 225% 2 = 250% 3 = 275% 4 = 300% This article has interesting information on DPI: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-8.1-and-8/dn528846(v=win.10)#Anchor_3 For a standard monitor with a default scaling factor of 100%, this would be some of the scaling levels: 0 = 100% 1 = 125% 2 = 150% 3 = 175% 4 = 200% #> Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:Control Panel\Desktop\PerMonitorSettings\$MonitorID" -Name "DpiValue" -Value $ScalingLevel } function Get-VideoCard { $videoDevices = Get-PnpDevice -Class Display if ($videoDevices.Count -gt 1) { # From my testing, additional GPU's show up first in the object return $videoDevices[1].Name } else { return $videoDevices.Name } } function Main { $GPUID = Get-VideoCard # Set scaling to 100%. Set-DPIScaling -MonitorID $MonitorIDA -ScalingLevel -2 Set-DPIScaling -MonitorID $MonitorIDB -ScalingLevel 0 # Restart device driver. Restart-VideoDriver -GPUID $GPUID # Added wait # Start-Sleep -Seconds 1 # Start-Sleep -Seconds 4 sleep -seconds 5 # Set scaling back to 250% and 175%. Set-DPIScaling -MonitorID $MonitorIDA -ScalingLevel 4 Set-DPIScaling -MonitorID $MonitorIDB -ScalingLevel 1 # Restart device driver. Restart-VideoDriver -GPUID $GPUID # Added wait # Start-Sleep -Seconds 1 # Start-Sleep -Seconds 4 sleep -seconds 5 # Set scaling to 100%. Set-DPIScaling -MonitorID $MonitorIDA -ScalingLevel -2 Set-DPIScaling -MonitorID $MonitorIDB -ScalingLevel 0 # Restart device driver. Restart-VideoDriver -GPUID $GPUID # Added wait # Start-Sleep -Seconds 1 # Start-Sleep -Seconds 4 sleep -seconds 5 # Launch game. Start-Process -FilePath $EXEPath -ArgumentList "oldschool" -Wait # Wait for game to exit. while(Get-Process -Name "BigBox" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) { Start-Sleep -Seconds 1 } # Set scaling back to 250% and 175%. Set-DPIScaling -MonitorID $MonitorIDA -ScalingLevel 4 Set-DPIScaling -MonitorID $MonitorIDB -ScalingLevel 1 # Restart device driver. Restart-VideoDriver -GPUID $GPUID } Main

Showroom professional grade. No other theme including these curated videos in any launcher to date comes close.

Excellent tool! I will add that Picodrive recently added support for .chd as well (I was the one who did the pull request to update their docs on GitHub). So for anyone who was holding out because of this obscure corner case (a whopping grand total of six games), that means Sega CD 32X games are finally playable in .chd format.