This is going to sound stupid

in previous games, if i have problems with performance, i turn my resolution down to say something like 800x600 (i know thats friggen small but it helps) and i get a HUGE performance increase. When i do this the screen usually gets smaller and the game is surrounded by a black Border

In Bad Company 2 when i turn the resolution lower, even custom resolutions, the game never seems to actually "get smaller"

Can someone explain to me why it doesn't and if there is a fix or a way to turn down the resolution so that i can get a black border around teh game for a performance increase?

Thanks!

 

Im not sure on Battlefield but on L4D2 you have to change the settings from full screen to windowed mode. Try that, I have battlefield also but I have never messed around with it since I have yet to play it on my external monitor/TV.

 

Yeah I am pretty sure BC2 disabled fullscreen for anything below 1024x768. They even removed it so you can't make a custom profile in nVIDIA CP

 

there is scaling options in the nvidia control panel witch may help

 

Right on the money. What is happening is it is using physical pixels for your screen resolution instead of scaling them. Thus the black boarder around the screen.

 

yep all you have to do is change that so it scales to full screen, i think its called "nvidia scaling"

 

Thanks Guys!, but in the Nvidia Control panel, i can't find anything about Nvidia Scaling

 

its called, adjust desktop size and position. 3rd option under the display tab

 

Nope. He can't see it if he has 260 series drivers. They removed that feature. Its automatic in the new releases.

 

um i see it in mine and im on 260.99? i even saw this in the 267 drivers, might be couse he has an r2