helps the screen size of games I play

Hello... I have two games I play on my laptop; DIABLO 2 and HALO...
When I run these games the screen that is displayed is "cut" on the sides... in other words it does not use the mode FULL screen...

I looked through the control panel and tried to change it in the "PROPERTIES" of the game, but nothing helps... "

Two of my girls have the same laptop and same and their games use the mode FULL screen...

any suggestions...?

Thank you
Reverend Rob Roy

You'd probably your monitor or different graphics settings.
I cannot use Nvidia as a reference for the forcing of fullscreen, but you should be able to extrapolate to any graphics you use - you use the control panel to the graphic drivers
Go to-(Nvidia Control Panel)
Select the option - 'adjust the position and size of office.
There are three options-
Aspect Ratio - retains the proportions of the software/game origin
Full screen - as it is said. Everything will be shown full screen regardless of the resolution.
No scaling - not sure how this affects on as I have not used.

There is also an option for "' perform the scaling on: monitor - or gpu '."
Here, you would use "gpu" If you want to use the options above.
Use "monitor" If you want your screen calibration to override the settings in the Nvidia Control Panel.
With the help of "monitor" will do everything full-screen unless your monitor has a specific framework to allow the 4:3 aspect ratio.

More about aspect ratios:
These games were not designed for wide screen monitors. They use a 4:3 format.
While you can force on the big screen the results is not desirable.
Two different things can happen when forcing screen wide according to the
game.
(1) the image is stretched on the side which distorts the image
(2) top and bottom of the image is cut to make the image to fit on the screen without stretching it.
It also has effect of reduction of the depth of field.
This option isn't so bad for some games. Personally, I prefer to stay with the many old games 4:3 aspect ratio, but also use (on a 24 "monitor) 1600 x 1024 which has small black bars than the 4:3 aspect ratio, but also retains the original close perspective.

Aspect ratios relate to the shape/size of the screen and it's native resolution.
EG - 4:3 = 1024 x 768 / 5:4 = 1280xx1024 / 16 x 10 = 1920 x 1200 / 16:9 = 1920 x 1080
Once again-, this is only a sample and relates to a 24 "monitor. Your laptop monitor
would use some different resolutions.

16:9 is an unfortunate aspect ratio for a large number of older games as you are limited to a maximum of 1280 x 1024, because often, these games have an option of 1600 x 1200, which cannot be done on a monitor with a vertical resolution of 1080 (24 "monitor) max with these games 1600 x 1024 is therefore a good option if the game allows.
1680 x 1050 can be good with games as well.
BTW - I use 1280 x 1024 with Diablo 2 and the sides and the top of the black bars.

If you don't already have it, the mod in the link below is very convenient for Diablo 2-

Glide3 to OpenGL Wrapper

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