Which OS are you running?
game.exe
start game.exe
start /w game.exe
since you mentioned this way, it got me thinking
a lot of time, XP simply ran with game.exe. SFW resizings happened quite often
under win8.1, it needed a pricise emulator that works, i had to have it tailormade the parameters with the batch files.
emulator extracting.exe produces a bunch of DLL files. then finally
these two were used (but under XP, the batch auto-deletes these DLLs).
start game.exe or
start /w game.exe
at the moment, i can not reproduce the SFW resizing games, i forgot which game did it recently. come to think of it, SFW resizing under Win8.1 did not happen as often as it did with XP
when i find the games, i will check the conditions you said, until then i want to put a lid on it to save your time