Game Display Problems

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Then "stretch" it back as it was before.

BBBastet wrote:

> Bob I Wrote:
>
>>That because you are using a "non-standard" monitor as far as those
>>games are concerned any resolution outside a 3:4 doesn't exist. You
>>can
>>stretch the monitor to make the 3:4 size fill the screen if the
>>distortion bothers you less than the black stripes.
>>
>>BBBastet wrote:
>>-
>>Hi, I have a problem displaying all my games correctly. Each game that
>>I
>>start (and it could be an old dos game like arkanoid or cd man or a
>>new
>>one like The Sims) doesn't start full screen. It is a full screen
>>mode,
>>but around the actual game, there is a black space. It varies from
>>game
>>to game--e.g. with The Sims or the old dos games its a square in the
>>middle of the screen and then there is about 8 cm of just black. With
>>Pharaoh, there are only black stripes on the sides, not on the top or
>>the bottom. All the games run okay, it's just that they run in a
>>smaller portion of the screen. I don't know what to do about it
>>because
>>it is really irritating.
>>I have a widescreen display - 1280 by 800 px resolution, Compaq
>>Presario 3320 Pentium 4 3GHz, NVIDIA 9000. I also recently installed
>>DOS Box but then uninstalled it - I don't know if there is any
>>connection or not. Thanks so much for the help!!!
>>
>>-
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>
> Hi, thanks but that's not it. This has started only recently - like two
> or three days ago. It suddenly started displaying the games in a smaller
> size.
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