Screen Resolution problem

[imnotagenius]

I am working with Xp Pro on a Thinkpad 600x laptop. The problem I have is whenever I try to play a game on my laptop the screen will get small, i.e I cant play in full screen mode. Even if I do 800x600 the game wont go in full screen mode. Also while not playing the game if I change my resultion from 1024x720 to 800x600 the display will get smaller on the screen leaving black display on the borders. Please help me out and tell me if anybody have solution for this problem. THank You..

 

[imnotagenius]

Basically I get full screen on 1024x768 but when I change it to 800x600 i dont get a full screen. It just opens in a window that is smaller than the full screen.

 

[SYAR2003]

Look in bios for something called "display stretch" and enable it .

SYAR

 

[imnotagenius]

I went into bios but couldn't find any option for display stretch. The only display options I had were to enable single screen or multiple screens. Thank you for your help though.

 

[SYAR2003]

Source:

http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-49TDVQ

TP General - Appearance of LCD at resolutions lower than default
Applicable countries and regions

Symptom
The ThinkPad display looks distorted, blurred, or appears in a window when run at lower resolutions.

Configuration
Any ThinkPad with an LCD capable of displaying a resolution of 800x600 or greater

Solution
The ThinkPad LCD display is behaving as designed.

Additional information
The Thinkpad display does not fill the entire LCD
Unlike conventional desktop monitors which can dynamically change the resolution displayed on the screen, LCD displays have a fixed resolution. If the LCD display is capable of displaying a resolution of 1024x768 then it has exactly 1024 rows and 768 columns in the display. This number cannot increase or decrease based on the resolution settings. As a result, when displaying something at a lower resolution the LCD displays the image in a smaller "window" of the larger display. This results in what appears to be a black border around the displayed image.



To stretch the image so that it fills the entire LCD display, you can enable Screen Expansion. To enable screen expansion you can either press the FN+F8 keys on the ThinkPad keyboard or type the following command from a MS-DOS prompt: C:\Thinkpad\PS2 HVEXP ON.

NOTE: You must have ThinkPad Utilities for DOS installed on the system to use the PS2 command.

The Thinkpad display appears distorted in lower resolutions
If Screen Expansion is enabled, it will stretch an image to fit the entire display. As a result of this, the image displayed may appear distorted. To disable screen expansion, press the FN+F8 keys on the ThinkPad keyboard or type the following from a MS-DOS prompt: C:\Thinkpad\PS2 HVEXP OFF.

NOTE: By disabling Screen Expansion, when displaying an image in a smaller resolution that what the display supports, the image will have a black border around it as described above.

 

[imnotagenius]

THanks a lot. It was a great help.