Games Don't Fill Up My Screen

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I did some searching but can't find how to do something...

I know how to adjust my monitor (buttons on the front panel) for normal viewing, browsing the internet, typing documents, etc. Right now it fills up the screen. However, when I start playing a game (MechWarrior, Operation Flashpoint, etc.) it flips off the desktop and into another "mode" if you will. In this mode, the sides are all pulled in 1/2" to 1". If I use my front panel buttons to adjust it to fill up the screen, then later when I'm done playing and go back to the desktop, I've now got all that stuff spilling way off the screen.

I'd like to set it up so everything fills up the screen, games and the desktop both, but can't. I thought maybe I'd use the monitor's buttons to fill the games onto the screen, and then some kind of Windows software type settings to shrink the desktop and other applications down, but can't find anywhere to do it. My video properties allow me to move the image around, but not change the size of it.

I'm running Win2000, a GF3ti200, and a new HitachiCM721F monitor, if that helps. If anyone has figured this out, please explain!

 

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Its your refresh rate. Your games are probably defaulting to 60hz, to check, set your desktop to 800x600 at 60hz and adjust your monitor. Now play the games at 800x600, stay the same yes?

You need to look for a nVidia refresh fix for OpenGl and for DX, try: Start>run...>dxdiag>More help tab> press the "override" button>type the refresh rate you wish to force for all resolutions> adjust all display modes by setting the modes in the display properties and adjust your monitor to each mode.

Hope that helps.

 

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Well, you're totally on to something. I notice about "DirectDraw" and "Direct Play". Going through DXDiag, I see several games listed - AOE II, Crimson Skies, and Mech4. Well, with your override suggestion, all 3 of these games do fill up the screen now! That's great. (And it's interesting to think that while this vid card makes great fps, I was actually only watching it in 60Hz all this time.)

However, Op Flashpoint, Rogue Spear, and RTCWolfenstein are still shrunk way in and barrel shaped all the way around.

I'd like to take that idea a step further now and force the other games into 100hz. I don't see it as an option in their menus at all, is there another route to "fix" the rest of them? I'll search for this refresh fix thing here...

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I found it here, it's the 2000/XP refresh fix about half way down. I set everything across the board to hit 100Hz, from my desktop to the DXdiag override to the refresh fix itself, and everything goes beautifully! I have a few other people that I need to share this with now.

Thanks!