Game Resolution

Im not 100 pct sure how to describe this problem, for a few weeks now, with EVERY game i play, no matter the resolution, it displays the game in a small box, i actually just tried taking a screenshot, what it looks like is in the middle of my screen i have my game, the game window takesup about 8/10 of the screen, the other 2/10 (1/10 on each side) is a black strip, you cannot move your mouse over this, its like that strip doesnt exist. This only happens when i open a game, and it applies for every game, even though my laptops resolution is 1024 x 768, every game i play i set to that resolution also. When not playing a game, my screen is fine, the full screen is used, but as soon as i open a game, it cuts the screen off like i mentioned before, weird thing is, it still retains the icons the same size and such like its 1024x768, but it just displays it in a smaller area.

 

btw, should mention my hardware, im running a HP intel dual core computer, windows 7 32 bit.

 

That sounds like some sort of scaling, although it's odd that it would happen at your native resolution. Check your graphics card control panel for anything like that.

 

If the screens are to the side (left/right) and your screen is a widescreen, this happens because W7 chooses to display resolution with the proper aspect ratio, rather than stretching the screen.

I am not sure how to solve it other than setting the resolution to a widescreen resolution (1280x800 or 1280x720 for example)

Try different resolutions and let us know how it works out.

 

im trying world of warcraft atm, i tried upping my resolution to the recomended 1366x768, still plays like i said before

 

okay fixed it, i cant play games in any resolution under 1366x768 without those problems showing up.

 

i still find it quite odd that with my screen resolution as 1024x768 i cant play games in that resolution right, most games i have dont have a 1366x768 option

 

I think your native resolution is 1366x768. 1024x768 is EXTREMELY low of a resolution and is only used on iPads and really small netbooks. Right click on your desktop and click screen resolution and the highest one is your native.

 

What kind of GPU do you have? It's probably a driver setting where it's trying to map pixels 1:1 instead of stretching to fill the screen. Either that or you have WoW set to play in windowed/borderless mode.

 

my native is 1366, but i played 1024 for all games since most ones i had only went that high and it never had problems like these before, and Syberia this happened with every game, not just wow. My graphics is just a inbuilt intel chipset. =.=