In casual or indie games, as well as in older low-resolution games, the question of how to make a full screen is difficult even for experienced users.
Sometimes it is quite easy to expand the game to full screen, you just need to change the resolution, press a key combination on the keyboard or uncheck the “windowed mode” item in the game settings, but this does not always work.
In order to run the game in full screen mode, you must first of all update the drivers for the video card. Outdated or built-in VGA drivers may be causing the game to fail to run at normal resolution.
There are several ways to launch the game in full screen. Below we will describe, step by step, all the known ways to run games in full screen mode.
With a keyboard shortcut
In many applications, you can try pressing Alt + Enter on your keyboard. This can put the game in full screen mode.
Through game settings
In many games, full screen mode can be done through the graphics settings menu. You just need to select the desired mode: windowed or full-screen.
Launch without additional parameters
Launching in windowed mode can be triggered by opening the program with the “-window” parameter. You can read more about this in the article “How to start the game in windowed mode”.
In order to start the game without additional parameters, you must do the following:
- Right click on the game icon and select “Properties”.
- Make sure that there is no -window parameter in the “Object” line of the game address. If it is, delete it.
Setting via the video card driver
The first thing you need to do if you are having problems with the graphical display of the game is to update or reinstall the video card drivers. Then go to the graphics settings menu and adjust the image scaling. Depending on the manufacturer of the card, the menu will look different.
- For NVIDIA cards, go to the Adjust Desktop Size and Position menu and enable scaling.
- For ATI cards: select “Properties” from the “Display Properties” menu and adjust the scaling there.
- For kart Integral Intel Graphics: in the “Display” menu, select “Basic Settings” and set the scaling options. If they are not available, lower the screen resolution, adjust the scaling and return the original resolution.
Adjusting the screen resolution
Sometimes old games simply cannot open in full screen mode due to too low resolution, and even if they are deployed in full screen mode, black bars appear on the sides or the picture looks very bad.
If all the previous methods did not help, you should do the following:
- Look in the game settings for the maximum resolution.
- Set the same resolution through the computer settings.
Of course, the desktop and all programs after that will look worse, will visually increase, and other games created for a higher resolution will not allow you to fully enjoy the graphics, therefore, after finishing the work with the old game, the screen resolution must be returned to its original value.
Now you know how to make full screen in different ways. It’s easy enough if you follow the instructions above.
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