when i play the sims 2 it doesnt take up the whole screen :(

does anyone know how to get the game to take up the entire screen? i have an acer aspire 5672.

 

....helllo
unless its in the display settings of the game u cant change to widescreen 16:10 (its thats wat u r on about). not too many games support widescreen unless u have a hack for it. the borders are only marginal and u dont nitice when youre involved in the game anyway?...well i dont
goodbye.....

 

Oh, it's coz your notebook is widescreen, and unless you set your video resolution to Widescreen (16:10 or 16:9) in the Video Options menu, you won't get it to take the whole screen.

EDIT: Dang, g33 why o why did you post just bare seconds before me? Lol, I don't care - just wanted to complain

 

hack it. I play NFS MW, Quake 4and BF2. all are in widescreen aspect.
Just go to uncle google.

 

NFS MW has got some cracking graphics! however ive herd that the hack for that when viewing from behind the car, the car doesnt actually move/steer! its soo funny it reminded me of one of those really old skool games where u the map moves and the car stays still lol

 

every game ive played takes up entire screen and i never had to change any settings. games like CS 1.6, GTA3 San Andreas, Sims 2, Tycoon games, etc.

 

oh right, what graphics card have u got? some stretch it so it is full screen but looks distorted, i always have to go to in game settings to switch to widescreen if the game supports it, including CS Source or Half Life 2

 

You likely will have to find the option for switching between center, stretch, or maintain aspect ratio. I don't know why I can't remember where this way..I think it's in the bios. Check there, press F2 on startup, I would check for you, but I gotta run lol.

 

I have a ATI Mobility Radeon X1400.

 

this works for me in the movies dont know if it can help you with games do this:
go to the Arcade software,then settings and there you see screen ratio and chose if it doesnt work with widescreen then chose the other option,that helped me with the black bars in movies

 

I looked in the bios and i didnt find it there..i also tried the acer arcade thing but that doesnt work either..

 

Okay...try this. I'm not sure which drivers you are currently are using (I suspect the ones supplied by Acer) however it may work with those too. I'm using the omega drivers. If you right click on your desktop and go to display properties, then settings, and then advanced, it will bring up a bunch of tabs. Click displays, and then click, "Panel." Click "Scale image." and then expand to full panel size. that should fix it.

 

Are you saying that Sims 2 didn't give you the option of widescreen? I don't know - I just lost track of where this thread is going