Re: Games are only being show in half screen

Hey, I tried fn+t and have not had any success yet. I also looked through
the manual and found nothing to help me out. When I tried to enter full
screen mode in one of the game that I was able to before I get the message:
"Direct Draw: Error setting display mode." Any ideas? Thanks, Kevin

"Jimmy S." wrote:

Hi snakevin,

Try Fn+T on your Compaq laptop! :-)

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snakevin Wrote:
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| Hey, I have a compaq laptop. Just curious if I should go into BIOS [and if
| so what to look for] or when I should try the fn+t. Thanks for the help,
| Kevin
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi snakevin,
||
|| Is your computer a laptop model?
||
|| Check your manual and see if they list instructions there as to
|| which BIOS setting or keyboard Fn key you can use to setup
|| "Fit to Screen" video mode. That's a common laptop feature.
||
|| Examples:
|| Fn+T works for some HP / Compaq's
|| Fn+F7 works for some DELL's
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
|| snakevin Wrote:
|| =================
||| Recently I had to upgrade my operating system and games that I had previously
||| run which used to show up in full screen now only show up in a screen about
||| half the size of full screen. I have tinkered with all of the game options
||| and since it happens to all of them now, I am assuming I have a setting on my
||| computer that is restricting the size now. Any ideas? Thanks, Kevin



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