Why are some games not full screen for me?

[shipinabottle]

Hi guys, I am playing games on Steam, and I see that some games fill out the entire screen on 1920x1080 resolution, but some do not. Like the game Crysis 2, I get full screen when I use my nVidia 550 Ti card, but it only shows up at about 80% of full-screen on my Radeon 7770 card. Do I have to adjust something or is that normal with Radeon cards?

(I already checked the scaling on the Radeon card. It plays AC: Brotherhood on full-screen; just not Crysis 2 though.)

 

[corkyg]

You might have to change the resolution for that game. It may not be programmed for 1920x1080.

 

[shipinabottle]

Thanks for responding. So, you're saying that it depends on the resolution that the game was originally programmed for? That gives me something to think about; I'm not a hardcore gamer by any means.

 

[denis280]

So, you're saying that it depends on the resolution that the game was originally programmed for

Yes it could.for exemple i run a game call after dark.old game from win 98 and the game runs 800x600.my screen is 1920x1080 and the game runs very small.

 

[MTDEW]

This is actually a very well known issue with Crysis and Crysis 2 on AMD cards when using a 1080p monitor with HDMI hookup.
A quick google search will find several solutions.

The one i remember that worked easiest/best for me was disable full-screen in the game menu, restart the game and as soon as a big eye appears in the game window press alt+enter. I remember sometimes it took a few tries but it worked.

The other solutions involve creating a custom resolution, or a border-less window mod.