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    Games are no longer running in full screen

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by jesusdlagarza, Jan 11, 2011.

  1. jesusdlagarza

    jesusdlagarza Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi and thanks for reading.

    I have the M11x R2, the problem is that something weird happens when you run a game on my laptop. When I run, the game looks in a window at the center of the screen, looks around a black background.

    For example, my laptop screen is 1366 x 768 and if the game has a resolution of 800 x 600 looks like a frame in the middle, and not expanded to full screen.

    When I run the games, most played at the beginning a couple of low-resolution videos are also "focused" when once occupied the entire screen. This is happening with all sorts of games that run "down " the resolution of my laptop screen.

    For example playing Warcraft 3 in resolution of 1024 X 768, the game looks in a box in the center, and does not spread across the screen, this happens to me in games like this or Company of Heroes or Battlefield 1942 or FIFA 11 ...

    But in games like Starcraft II or MW2 I can see it in full screen without problems.

    This is a driver problem? Please if anyone can help me fix this

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    totorohui Notebook Enthusiast

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    Go to Nvidia control panel. Then click 'adjust desktop size and position', from there choose 'use Nvidia scaling'. Should be ok after this. However I would prefer the scaling with fixed aspect ratio.
     
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    Rjdeli Notebook Geek

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    or if its in window mode I don't think is your prob. but if it is hit alt+enter in game.
     
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    ak120691 Notebook Enthusiast

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    are you using the intel driver? I only get that whenever I'm playing games on the intel driver.
     
  5. jesusdlagarza

    jesusdlagarza Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have the 260.99 driver and can't find the option 'adjust desktop size and position' , where it is? which is the driver that you have?
     
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    totorohui Notebook Enthusiast

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    Eh... I'm using the 197.72 from Dell, so I'm not sure how's the UI for the new driver. Still I believe there's a setting inside the Nvidia control panel to set this.

    I'm R1 user BTW.

    Edit: This picture i got from the net. look at under display.

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