Laptop halfscreen in games?

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I didn't know were to put this, sorry if its in the wrong place.

Anyways, I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 with a "GeForce2 Go" video card.

After installing drivers for the video card, my desktop and anything in XP works fine full screen. Games however, will only run half screen even if I change resolution in game it will remain half screen. How do i fix this.

Any help is appreciated thanks.
 
Check with Dell, the card manufactuer usually leaves driver support up to the OEM. The latest release drivers are rarely laptop friendly.
 
This is what it does....

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goto graphics options and look for an option for Aspect Ratio controls. Change it from Centered timings to Maintain aspect ratio, or full screen. I dont have a Nvidia card so i cant tell you the exact locations. Just what to look for.
 
A lot of Dell laptops have a setting in the BIOS that will enable/disable centered timings. Not to familiar with the BIOS in the 8100, but it couldn't hurt to poke around there if you can't find the setting in the nVidia cp.
 
I had, an Inspiron 8100 for a looong time was a high school graduation present with that card. It did the same thing when I first got it. For the life of me I cannot remember exactly what I did to fix that. It was a setting though I don't think it was in the BIOS as it related to the card. I later sold my 8100 and my dad gave me his that had more ram and a better ATI card in it and it never had that issue. That said it could have been the bios so look there too.

If I remember right (and this has been a looong time) it was under video options, flat panel display, display adapter scaling option instead of centered output or something similar. Hope that helps.
 
I was looking at the bios sims for the inspiron 8100 series and saw no option to fix that. Try setting the bios to default settings press F2 or FN+F1 to get into bios and press [ALT+F] to reset to factory settings. I remember having that issue on a friends notebook but it had a display option to change to get the full screen/stretch it. One other thing...try toggling between external and internal displays...press FN+F8 and see if that works. Also if you have a twinview option in your nvidia display driver options,make sure it is set to "standard"
 
This should be a bios setting, generally on a laptop you want to run games in the native resolution. Getting everquest to accept 1680X1050 was a royal pita, older games will be a problem, if you are unable to get to native, check the bios for a 'stretch', or native option under the display.
 
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