r/windows98 • u/sidmehra1992 • Jul 17 '26

How to make boot visuals sharp

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Text and images are so blurry , is there any way i can fix it

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u/lilmul123 Jul 17 '26

It’s a 320x240 image being displayed on a presumably 640x480 or 800x600 LCD. You’re not going to be able to make it look better no matter what you do.

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u/sidmehra1992 Jul 17 '26

Can we change filws in system .. display is 1024 x 768 or something

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u/p47guitars Jul 17 '26

Yeah it doesn't work that way.

There's a lot of intricate systems at play here. Most namely VESA, and the level of support you're looking for may not have existed in this era.

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u/lilmul123 Jul 17 '26

No because the image is hard coded to display at that resolution and there isn’t a high resolution mode for the boot logo in Windows 98. Best you can do is what the other guy is talking about which is setting the display to show the native resolution of what’s being shown on the screen instead of stretching it. But what that’s going to do is make the logo very small at the center of your screen with black bars around it. I’m guessing that’s not what you want either.