[Virtualbox] Launched Old Game, Resolution Permanently Lowered

Hi all, I recently downloaded and installed a relatively older game called Anachronox off of GOG's website. I accidentally launched the .exe without using wine, and a black screen came up. My Virtualbox window became incredibly smaller (from 1920x976 to 640x80). After the resolution was lowered, I quit out of my window manager and restarted. To my disdain, my resolution was still at 640x480 despite having "xrandr --outout VBOX0 --mode 1920x1080" in my .xinitrc file.
I used the "xrandr -q" command to show my available resolution, but none of them were anything close to as big as 1920x976. The highest resolution was about 1280x720 or something.
I have had installed the "virtualbox-guest-" packages.

ewaller wrote:I am really confused.   What operating system is on the host?  What operating system is on the guest?  Where did we fail to run the exe under wine?  How did it run without wine?  The window manager on the host, or on the guest?
Host: Windows 7 64 bit
Guest: Arch Linux x86_64
On GOG's game downloader, when you finish downloading the game, you can launch the game via the downloader, how this managed to "launch" (just a black screen, unlike when launching via WINE) I don't know.
As I am on W7, I was referring to the WM on my guest system, which is BSPWM. I suspect that the WM is irrelevant because the resolution problem was prevalent on Openbox, BSPWM, FVWM, and DWM.

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