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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!!!
>
> -
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.
--
BBBastet
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!!!
>
> -
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.
--
BBBastet
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