for the past few hours i've been trying to figure out why when i played any game in full screen with a non native resolution the screen would shrink down to the resolution i set it to, but wouldn't scale up the image. it was just surrounded by black space. like this:
(i simulated this image in paint because when i take a screenshot, its the correct resolution with no black area)
the monitor is 1920x1080 but the game is 640x480
this is what it should look like:
(again another simulated image from paint)
this is my display settings in the intel hd graphics control panel:
as you can see the "maintain display scaling" option is selected but for some reason its acting like "centered" is selected instead whenever i go into full-screen. i suspected it was changing when i went into full-screen but changed back when i exited automatically. but that means i couldn't alt tab and check it. so i went into the compatibility settings on a program and forced it to run in 640x480 mode.
i ran the program and it shrunk the screen just like before BUT now i could alt tab without it changing back, i checked the Intel display settings again. here's what it looked like:
its hard to see because its all scrunched up due to the low screen resolution but it shows "centered" is now selected instead of "maintain display scaling". i can click on the other one, and it works, the image scales to fit the screen like it should, so i have determined that it IS switching between them when i go into full-screen, now this is my problem. i cant alt tab out of a full screen game to change it so i need it to stop automatically changing in the first place.
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