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In game screen size

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redghostonc

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Hello.

I have recently upgraded my computer to a 2400xp and an MSI Nforce2 Motherboard. I have also got a Geforce4 4200 (64mb RAM) and a iiyama 1451 19" CRT monitor.

Only on this new setup I am havign problems with in game screen size. I have my desktop at 1024x768 in 32bit and for the games I set it to the same. however when I'm in a game and It goes into a 3d mode (like D3D) the screen size shrinks. I have set up the game res to match the desktop 1024, but its still missing a good inch or two from the screen size. I have the computer running at 85hz and the drivers for the monitor from the site, but alas it makes no difference.

When I had my old hardware in the compouter, same drivers, same graphics card it would give me a full screen dipsplay with the same settings. Is there anywat I can adjust the size, because obvioulsy if i manually make the screen fit to the monitor in games, it will then be too big for the desktop.

Strange. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
 
You probably have done this but I'll ask anyway...

Did you recently upgrade to XP or did you reformat and forget to get a refresh rate locking program?

And by the way how do you like that monitor?
 
I reformatted the computer but I never had a refresh rate locking program, and mine is set to 85Hz anyway, ply the games run higher than 60Hz, but would this effect the size of the screen in game?
 
Originally posted by: redghostonc
I reformatted the computer but I never had a refresh rate locking program, and mine is set to 85Hz anyway, ply the games run higher than 60Hz, but would this effect the size of the screen in game?
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Yes it would... adjust the screen size with the on screen controls while you're in the game. Also, the only thing I've found that fixes the XP Refresh Rate bug is a program called ReForce. If you can't find it, let me know. I'll provide a place for you to download it from.
 
The screen size will be different for each refresh rate. You should be able to just set the screen size to fit the screen while in the game, then the monitor should remember that setting for the next time 🙂

Welcome to Anandtech forums, by the way 🙂 :beer:

Confused
 
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