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    Games not playing in full screen?

    Hi All,

    Hopefully someone can help with a problem I'm having. All my games on steam are opening at 1280 * 720, but not scaling to full screen. Instead they have a black border all the way around. Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing to make them go full screen? I can't play them at 1920 * 1080 because my laptop doesn't have enough grunt, but if I set the resolution to this then the games are full screen.

    Hopefully someone can help

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    Re: Games not playing in full screen?

    hmm, might be a problem with the resolution on my laptop, if I change it down to 1280 * 720 in windows it does the same thing, instead of filling the screen

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    Re: Games not playing in full screen?

    Ignore me, it was a setting in catalyst control centre. I had to change the resolution down to 1280 * 720 then go into catalyst control centre and make it go full screen instead of centred in the middle. I should have waited five minutes and tried harder to sort this out instead of making a thread

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    Re: Games not playing in full screen?

    I was just about to reply that... Its for people who might want to run at 1:1 pixels so retain sharpness, but only gain some border, rather than have scaling, which depending on your monitor, might be a bit rubbish... Well done on finding the option. Good luck getting the aspect ratio to stick in games though. If I'm on the desktop, everything is fine, but in games (ok, some Ive tried recnetly) it just fills. Not a massive thing, as I play at native, but it bugs me as I know its wrong.

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    Re: Games not playing in full screen?

    I was about to suggest pressing alt+enter but I see you fixed it anyway lol.

    My games sometimes open up windowed, different problem I guess.

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    Re: Games not playing in full screen?

    Quote Originally Posted by BeeP View Post
    I was about to suggest pressing alt+enter but I see you fixed it anyway lol.

    My games sometimes open up windowed, different problem I guess.
    Surely thats to fix windowed games. Not a full screen game at the wrong res.

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