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[aatu]

... These are really old point and click games going back to 2005 that I've been meaning to play for years...

Man, now I feel like an old man (which I'm not!). It was around 2005 that I played a really old point-and-click game (Simon the Sorcerer II, from 1995), that I hadn't played in years.

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Speaking of old games, I'd recommend trying God of Thunder. It's from 1993, and nowadays freeware (probably need DosBox to play it). Hilarious puzzle-adventure in Nordic myth world.

 

[asim18]

Hey asim, I sorted out the old games on my laptop based on what you were suggesting earlier. I have dual graphic switching on it, both intel HD3000 and a discreet AMD card. Through the intel control panel I was able to change from 'maintain aspect ratio' to 'scale full screen' and now those two old games of mine fill the screen. Stretched, but look fine. So, I'm happy. These are really old point and click games going back to 2005 that I've been meaning to play for years, so after these, I don't think I'll need to scale any others. But it's more immersive this way. I hate playing with borders so even slightly stretched looking suits me better.

Nice one mate

 

[Merlin5]

Man, now I feel like an old man (which I'm not!). It was around 2005 that I played a really old point-and-click game (Simon the Sorcerer II, from 1995), that I hadn't played in years.

edit:
Speaking of old games, I'd recommend trying God of Thunder. It's from 1993, and nowadays freeware (probably need DosBox to play it). Hilarious puzzle-adventure in Nordic myth world.

Shall check that game out, thanks.

Nice one mate

Interestingly, after posting that, I loaded the game again and the black borders were back. I was like "huh, what happened?".

I noticed that those scaling options disappeared from the laptops intel control panel when I disconnected the laptop HDMI from my samsung TV. Reconnected to TV, re-enabled duplicate or projector only, and they reappeared. So by itself, the laptop doesn't stretch it, but connected to the TV, it does.

 

[asim18]

I noticed that those scaling options disappeared from the laptops intel control panel when I disconnected the laptop HDMI from my samsung TV. Reconnected to TV, re-enabled duplicate or projector only, and they reappeared. So by itself, the laptop doesn't stretch it, but connected to the TV, it does.

Hmm..

You said your laptop has two GPUs? One integrated Intel one and a dedicated ATI one?

It could be that the HDMI socket is dedicated to the Intel GPU, so when you plug that in it uses the settings on the Intel drivers, and when you unplug it and launch a game, it switches to the ATI GPU for better gaming performance.

Do you also have the ATI control panel installed also? Might have to set the scaling options in there also.