Have a chat with your local milliner (hat maker). They should have the skill and equipment to stretch it safely. Eg, Liza Steadman if you're in Victoria Australia.
Death during restraint is a common and well documented issue. There is training on how to appropriately restrain someone whilst offering minimal risk to all parties involved. A huge part of it is not squashing the person being restrained - positional asphyxia.
Stupid computer game needs secure boot with requires re-doing the partition or upgrading to windows 11, which probably requires re-doing the partition anyway.
Even without mtx, cod6 was the most expensive boring game I've purchased.