Pillar Box Disabling
Ok, ever since I got this laptop, I immediately noticed a major problem with the screen...
Pillar box. Nearly everything I launch or open in fullscreen has a pillar box format that takes up almost all the screen. The only things that don't are things of Steam, or cd's. Also, Oblivion had this problem, but I fixed it by changing the game's resolution to the highest. The screen on this isn't very big at all, and computers with much larger screens have never done this.
I don't know if any of this will help, but Google certainly didn't - Info.
Changing the resolution through the right click menu on Desktop doesn't help either.
Pillar box. Nearly everything I launch or open in fullscreen has a pillar box format that takes up almost all the screen. The only things that don't are things of Steam, or cd's. Also, Oblivion had this problem, but I fixed it by changing the game's resolution to the highest. The screen on this isn't very big at all, and computers with much larger screens have never done this.
I don't know if any of this will help, but Google certainly didn't - Info.
Changing the resolution through the right click menu on Desktop doesn't help either.
You just need to change the resolution in any full screen program to the native resolution for your laptop..
Find the resolution you changed Oblivion to, and change everything else to that
Find the resolution you changed Oblivion to, and change everything else to that
The thing is I shouldn't have to do that at all. Every other computer I have ever used has just done stretch for everything to fit the whole screen, not add horrible boxes to keep things at its normal resolution. There has to be a way to set it to default everything to stretch, but my struggle is to no avail.
Why? Your laptop probably has a 16:9 aspect ratio while most standard computer resolutions are 4:3..
Because things were always stretched on every other computer or tv I have ever used. Just because something's resolution is 4:3, doesn't mean it shouldn't stretch to fit monitors.
My widescreen TV actually does stretch itself automatically, resulting in some automatically stretched people. 
I wouldn't mind this computer defaulting to stretch for every thing's resolution because 1: It wouldn't stretch much and 2: Because I ducking hate pillarboxes.
On my laptop I can cycle between stretch modes with a hotkey. But I had to poke around in the display settings a bit to enable that feature.
I've gone through those settings a dozen times but cannot find anything to change a hot key.
Well; I guess it's either that or the rough way *hands a hammer*
...anyone know where the hotkey options are then?
If you told us exactly what kind of laptop and/or graphics card you'd using someone might have better shot at helping. Alternatively you could nag the manufacturer about it.
That's why I posted my information as a whole - I didn't know what information would be useful, and what would be completely pointless.
I'm using an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 graphics card, and using Catalyst Control Center version 2009.1217.1710.30775.The setting I apparently need is called GPU scaling, but in my Catalyst control center window it was turned on but grayed out.
If 2009 is the year of the version, update asap.
...how?
>knows nothing of anything
>knows nothing of anything
Something about this sounds expensive...maybe the fact that it says to uninstall a driver and install a new one. <_<
I think I'll go about doing this.
I think I'll go about doing this.
Yes, you have to download new drivers from AMD's website. You can use the auto-detect.
I used the auto detect, installed 2 things and...nothing. It didn't update.
