Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family

[Clanky]

I recently updated my video driver (above card), and tried to play some games, I think it kinda lost its aspect ratio... I can't play most of my games any more (because it doesn't take up the whole screen, it has a huge black boarder.

I was wondering whether it will be because of the driver... or if some setting is broken!?

[Clyde]

This might be of use to you dude. Maybe it's the refresh rate / hertz. Or you might need to re-adjust your monitor settings for the screen width and height.

[Clanky]

Well, its a laptop, and the Graphic Properties through INTEL only has 60Hz, and the best resolution I can get is 1280x800and 32 Bit. Hmmm... it's a 224Mb card...

[Jim]

1280x800 sounds right - on laptops the cards only ever do resolutions up to the physical resolution of the screen.  There's probably a setting in the driver somewhere that says whether to stretch 640x480 up to 1280x800 or whether to letterbox it.

Jim

[Clanky]

There was a setting for Aspect Ratio, saying: Centre Desktop (with border), and Full Screen (no border)... the first one was selected... so! I'm guessing that it was producing a border when the resolution set by the game changed the resolution of the video aspect property... hmm, I'll try it out, as I am in class at the moment haha, so... if it works, I guess this will be the last you hear of this lol... if not! Expect a reply! LOL.

Thanks guys!!!

[Clanky]

OK! Worked. Nice. But, one of my games is still saying (Cannot convert resolution to 1640x780 (or something) and 16...(something) colour. Please change your desktop settings.)
Hmmm.... it was working when I first installed it. Then I was playing and it crashed... should I reinstall it?

[Jim]

That res is probably too high for your laptop, or just plain weird enough that the video scaler can't handle it.  You might need to delete the game's configuration file - if you can find it - or try cleaning it off and reinstalling.

Jim