320x200 Full-Screen Problems

[MusicallyInspired]

Since I've formatted I've been having problems with AGS games. I've got the latest DirectX...I think. I installed it and it seemed all to quick and said it was finished.

Anyway, every 320x240/200 AGS game I play in full screen shows up as a small little box surrounded by black. As if it's playing in 800x600 but the game is in 320x240/200. The only way to fix it is to run the game in 640x480/400 mode which sucks. I want my full-screen 320x240/200!

I do not own a laptop. WinXP SP2.

EDIT: Actually I've found out this happens with anything that runs in 320x240/200. Including DOSBox.

My video card is an ATI Radeon X1650 Pro. Like I said, never happened before the recent format.

[pass]

What directx are you running? maybe AGS doesn't support the new directx 10 (I use 9, and it works fine for me).
Did you upgrade your copy of ags to the latest version (3.0)?

If all else fails, try changing your desktop to 320*240 (or whatever the lowest option is), and then try running it.

[MusicallyInspired]

Like I said, it's not just happening to AGS, it's also happening to DOSBox and any other program that runs at 320x200 full-screen so it's not program specific, but I think anything that runs with DirectX-specific. And DirectX 10 isn't compatible with Windows XP, which I stated I have. I have DirectX 9.0c.

It's really bugging me.

[Pidgeot]

Check your video card configuration to see if it has an option to not scale lower resolutions. I'm afraid I only have experience with NVidia's control panel, so I can't help you much as to where you'll find it.

[MusicallyInspired]

I think the problem is I don't have the latest DirectX. And it won't let me install it. I just checked my graphics software information and it says I have DirectX 6.14 or something. I tried installing DX9c 3 times and every time it finishes all too quickly and says it's installed. I don't get it...

EDIT: Ok, something odd here....I ran DXDIAG.EXE and it says I have DX9c....but my ATI control panel says otherwise....what's going on?

[Broomie]

Okay, this might seem odd but try this. Goto Display Properties and change your resolution to 16-bit (presuming it's on 32) and then try it. I had the exact same problem and this worked for me. Although that was running Windows on my Mac through an emulator so I don't think it will get the same desired effect but it's worth a try.

If not, you'll just have the settle with running it in 640x480 which does indeed suck.

[MusicallyInspired]

Unfortunately that had no effect. It just bugs me because before the format this all worked fine...I don't get it.....sigh...

[Pidgeot]

Maybe there's a known some kind of issue with the video card driver version you're running? Try upgrading to the latest one. If you already have the latest, try downgrading.

[Darxide]

I'm suspicious of Catalyst... try uninstalling Catalyst and then manually uninstall your video card completely (via device manager), reboot. Surf over to ATI's driver page and download the Driver Only (no Catalyst). Let me know if this solves the problem.

I've had interesting "issues" with the Catalyst. I no longer use it and use bare bones drivers only.

~Darxide

[MusicallyInspired]

Actually I've solved the problem by updating my graphics drivers. I forgot to post that here, I guess.

[cownip]

I've found another solution, at least for laptops. Right click on your desktop, click properties, then the tab called settings, then advanced, then displays, then panel, then look at the "panel attributes. Check the only box that says scale images to panel size. And bingo, all games are now full screen. This works for any game (or at least this and Grim Fandango haha).

[daventry]

All i did was set it to 640x480, even though i have a 22inch Monitor with a Size of 1680x1050 and the Game works very well.