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Hello,

I remmember playing Dink Smallwood before on 15" monitor and I don't recall two black bars (left and right), but now on same 15" monitor on Windows 7 i don't have fullscreen Dink Smallwood game but 2 black bars on both side of screen.

Is this normal and if it is, how to make Dink Smallwood fullscreen?

Thanks.

Black bars...Your screen is a little too big if it does that

Maybe it's about resoultion. Any way to modify Dink's resoulution then or any other way to solve this problem to make it fullscreen?

Feel free to search through the source code... Nobody (that I know of) has managed to change the screen resolution for Dink.

Hm... my monitor is LCD one, and I don't belive anyone other didn't have this issue before so it must be a fix for fullscreen or something to resize the screen so it fits fully.

LCD monitors tend to have issues resizing the screen... CRT monitors are much more flexible in this respect.

What aspect ratio is your screen? 4:3, 16:10 or something else? Dink is a game that runs in a 4:3 so you'll see black bars on the sides if you run it on a widescreen monitor (unless you set up said monitor to stretch everything over the entire area, which plenty of monitors are capable of doing).

Do you get these black bars on every screen? Because on most indoor screens, there will be black area down the sides, because there's nothing there.

My Dell laptop is indeed widescreen.

But the image should be pulled a little wider to fill the screen...at least my computer does this.
Maybe you can play in windowed mode.

> But the image should be pulled a little wider to fill the screen...at least my computer does this.
This is nonstandard behaviour. Some video cards or screens may do this, but it's completely dependent on those.

My monitor has the capability of stretching things horizontally fully. Everything will look stretched out and wide in the game, but if you prefer or are used to that, try looking for that option (in the monitor's control panel, not your PC's, mind you).