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    Hi guys. I'm new here and I was wondering if could get some help on serious problem. I LOVE emulators. I've being playing them for years now. My most reliable one is desmume. Everything was running great on my windows 7 tell I decided to upgrade to 8. Everything was running great tell I started up my desmume and every and I mean every rom come out hideously pixelated. I then choose to check my other emulators dolphin, visualboy ,ppsspp and nulldc, and everyone of them got hit with the same problem! I've tried changing the display settings on my computer, I've tried screen resolution on my computer and I've tried the display settings in the emulators themselves nothing works. At first I thought it was my computers fault but then I tested it on three other computers with windows 8 and the same problem shines through pixelated and ugly. Please tell me I don't have to downgrade a my computer back to windows 7 just to get that that crisp beautiful look (by emulation standards) back.Click image for larger version. 

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ID:	40340 Please HELP! This problem has being bugging me for several months now.

    BTW I see the pics I uploaded don't look as bad as made them out to be but it looks like they got compressed. Believe me when I say when scaled up on my computer it looks much much worst. Please help.
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    Your right they don't look bad at all even fully zoomed in on the images, but all you need to do is config the emu to use whatever filters it has

    Using Windows 8 has nothing to do with it, it will look exactly the same on the same setup in window 7 as it does in Windows 8 what you possibly have is a better screen now though that shows a crisper image making the pixcels more square as that is what they are, a lower quality screen though make make the squares appear more rounded

    If it has no filters of it's own most good graphics chip sets have filters you can add to certain programs or your desktop

    Again Windows 8 does not display any emulator any differently to Windows 7

    Not sure I would class Windows 8 as an upgrade though to 7, but if anything you are getting a higher quality image hence it looks more pixcelated or you are using a bigger screen that would make pixcels more visable

    PSP GBA and DS all use low Res that when expanded to full screen look kinda naff without filtering and are picelated even on Windows 7

    even 640x480 when on a bigger screen can start to show clear pixcels (Dreamcast runs at this mostly, with the odd game running at 320x240)

    basically you are making a small pixcel very big so you can see it easy

    I don't emulate much now but I do know that VGA at least has some nice filters that you can use

    Generally the HQx2 or HQx3 filters give off the best results for 2D emulation like PSX, GBA and some DS, not sure I would use that with 3D emulation though unless there is a option just to filter the textures
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    Wow I had no idea that the size of the screen of the computer effects the visual quality of the emulator. Now that I think about it the laptop I was using them on with the windows 7 did have a smaller screen then the one I use windows 8 on now, that computer is long gone now and I don't know anyone with a laptop with a screen around the size of the one I had so for now I have no way of testing your theory, but if it is true that would explain a lot.

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    You can still test that anything that runs in a window, just resize it to the apx size that you older screen was instead of making it fill the screen

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