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    Can someone help my stepmother

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by AppleUsr, Mar 3, 2011.

  1. AppleUsr

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    My stepmother has an 14 inch acer 4820TG i think it is. It has the ATI 5650 graphics card. My question is can someone tell us step by step how to make games play full screen. In all her gamehouse games the games are set to full screen but showing up with black borders. Her old computer utilized the whole screen. this one is 5x better yet it wont use the whole screen. anyone know where that setting might be. i went into graphics properties and didnt see anything apparent that i missed. I updated to the latest drivers already.
     
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    Have you tried: Alt + Enter
     
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    MrDJ Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    hi
    i found the same thing on a couple of occasions but with nvidia card.
    it turned out it was auto set scaling with fixed aspect ratio and i had to change it manually in the nvidia control panel.
    so what you need to look for in the ati control panel is scaling with fixed aspect ratio and change the setting in there.

    edit: the alt + enter didnt work for me back then.
     
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    I forgot what the feature is called again. You have to force the game to run with the screen scaled to full screen by using the graphic card driver.
     
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    i finally found the scaling options in the ati control panel. its most certainly not obvious. its not directly accessible you have to jump through hoops just to get there. i updated my driver but the only scaling option im getting is full screen and set aspect ratio. both did nothing to change the full screen. i did some googling and this is a known issue. i actually need to hunt down a different driver install that. then lower my resolution. change scaling to gpu scaling. put resolution back snd then it should work. I havent done it yet i was able to get full screen to work using optimus running intel graphics. that should be fine for big fish games. i just want to ask her first if she wants me to change drivers the last time i updated the graphics driver it screwed up sleep mode. so i want to talk to her about it first.
     
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    Yes, the scaling options in catalyst control center are abysmal and WAY too hard to use. In the nvidia control panel all you do is select which type of scaling you want; they don't make you jump through completely unecessary hoops like ATI (like having to lower the resolution to set it, which makes very little sense).
     
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