Is there anytime of tweaks out there that makes Daggerfall actually playable on a 1920x1200 Widescreeen Monitor? I mean playable as in it is clear and everything is sharp, as I can already play it; it just burns my eyes.

NO!

Its a pixelated game, and there is no way it will look good at a resolution of 1920x1200. The best you ca ndo is have it at its maxium resolution, stretch it to the edges of the screen, and sit a bit further back.

So sad, seemed like a great game too.

"Seemed like"? A game doesn't need to have perfect graphics to be great.

For some ignorant fools, the graphic does count.

Deepnau, if you're genuinely interested in getting into Daggerfall, consider running the game in windowed mode using DosBox. The standard windowed dimensions will probably look too small on a 1900x1200 monitor, just as fullscreen appears too stretched, but playing with the scaler feature in DosBox to scale windowed mode up 2-4 times can yield the best compromise. With some patience and experimentation you will find the best way to use your display surface effectively.

I'm no expert in DosBox (I keep a few PCs from circa 1998 for my retro-gaming), but I'm sure some of the more experienced DosBoxers will be able to help if you show interest and patience.

As a few other people have indicated, graphics are the not main reason to play an old game. A game from 1996, or even earlier, is always going to be hard to run and harder to look at. Try to see past the huge texels stretched over low-poly models and find the heart beating inside. There's a reason people still rave about Daggerfall more than a decade later, despite massive flaws and technical challenges.

Actually, I have played this game in the past, I just wanted to go back to it. Back then I played it on a 1280x1024 resolution, and it was quite playable. Widescreen at such a high resolution is just too big to play this game Full-Screen, so I'll have a go at playing this game windowed.

Hopefully I do not sound like a "graphics [censored]", since at the moment I still play old games that are far below the modern graphics standards (like 1990's), and they are still fun. It's all about the gameplay really.

Yea, look into the scalers and resolution options in DOSbox. If you snag a CVS version of DOSbox, you can use antialiasing as well, to smooth out those rough edges. You can make it look "better" by some definition, but IMO it starts looking a bit cartoony, like it was cell shaded or something. Of course, that will also slow down the game significantly, so I hope you have a beast of a rig.

And for the record, this:

I can already play it; it just burns my eyes
So sad, seemed like a great game too.

and this:

Hopefully I do not sound like a "graphics [censored]", ... It's all about the gameplay really.

They don't mix

Well, if the game is just a blob of colors (That's what it looks like on a widescreen + fullscreen), then game play is nonexistent really...

I can't stand how Daggerfall was hard-coded at a 320x200 resolution but many of the sprites (if you look at them in the data files) are considerably higher resolution. You can't see them in their full glory from within the game.

Would it be better if the sprites were even more pixelated when you stand next to them in the game?

To have the same 1:1 size in the game, the player has to stand several meters away from the sprite, but what if they stand next to it?

Excellent point..

To have the same 1:1 size in the game, the player has to stand several meters away from the sprite, but what if they stand next to it?

When I take my glasses off, Daggerfall looks as good as Oblivion.

It does not enhance the graphics, but there's a way to hack your game to double the view distance. When taking a walk in the three unique cities, it can be nice to see the landmarks from a longer distance.

From http://www.uesp.net/dagger/daghack.shtml#view :



http://www.hexworkshop.com/ I haven't used an Hex Editor in a very long time. But I'm sure this one will do the work.

For some ignorant fools, the graphic does count.

Of course the graphics count, otherwise everything would be NetHack. But they're not everything.

Ah, where can I find that anti aliasing thingamabob? I recall reading about it a few months ago, but I've lost track of the thread (and all its links).

And, um, how beastly does my hardware need to be to run it? It can run Bioshock smoothly...

Bah, graphics [lady of ill repute].

Seriously, IMO, 320x200, 256-color is a fine resolution... Though admitedly, it was what was standard when I started gaming... And a lot of these older games are older than many people here. I RECALL there are some hacks that can raise the game's resolution, that I recall seeing, but I never bothered with it 'cuz well, 320x200 is fine for me for it, and if I went any higher, my mind would expect anisotropic texture filtering and true full-scene anti-aliasing, like I'm used to any of my 3D accelerated games getting.

I guess I really am a bit of a [lady of ill repute] when it comes to graphics, but grant a free pass to anything running traditional VGA's 320x200x8bpp, because of how close that is to my heart.

It's much more about the CPU than graphics card, since emulation is quite CPU intensive; that old, simpler code becomes a real problem when for every operation it'd normally have to do, it has to run another few dozen just to 'translate' it.