![]() ![]() ![]() You might just need to increase the amount of memory the laptop allocates to graphics but this is unlikely. It seems as though you are getting the equivalent of no scaling - The windows control panel doesn't show these scaling options in most versions of windows so you need to use the graphics chipset manufacturer's utility, which may not be installed but should be available, or the laptops hardware settings which can be a separate utility provided by the laptop manufacturer. The settings for Nvidia graphics card in the Nvidia control panel for my PC has 3 scaling modes Aspect ratio, full screen or no scaling. Sometimes a monitor may have different settings for different inputs - some monitors have VGA, HDMI, DVI etc inputs so did your XP PC connect to a different input on your monitor from your laptop and could this have affected your settings? There is usually a special set of function keys on laptops to tell it to use the internal screen, external screen or both. (If you want to use the laptop screen then there may be a utility on your laptop change these settings for your built in screen or graphics chipset.) One additional thought here is if you use an external monitor then you may need to make sure ONLY this is in use as using the laptop screen and the monitor together may cause problems and show a smaller image on the external screen to match the built in screen for example, and also make sure the laptop detects the monitor's capabilities correctly as it may not know what the external monitor is capable of. ![]() From what you say I'm presuming that you are using an external monitor and not the laptop's screen. ![]() These settings vary from monitor to monitor. Auto keeps the aspect ratio the PC tells it to display whereas wide always stretches it. I use a windows 7 desktop and monitor for games (32 bit) and my monitor has monitor image size settings of Auto or Wide. You may need to search the full manuals for your monitor and laptop for the equivalents of the following. I don't run games on the windows 10 machine I have so can't help directly. A scaling issue is the likeliest culprit as you have already identified, but there are several places where scaling is set other than in the default generic windows settings. ![]()
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