I've noticed recently that on my set-up certain games will not run in fullscreen mode. By this I mean the game is fully functional however I am presented with a black screen with the game running in the background, sound and all. It's just I have no image rendered.
It seems to be the one's which give me the option of running them in windowed mode - which incidentally works fine and is hence the only way I am able to play them. It annoys me though! TrackMania Nations is one example of a game which will not work fullscreen, but for example Source games will. but I don't know enough about the technical side of things to work out why this might be.
Is this likely to be a hardware issue, or a software one? I updated my drivers (running newest CATs on an X800) and made sure my DirectX was the newest (9.0c). My monitor is a Samsung 913N.
Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
It seems to be the one's which give me the option of running them in windowed mode - which incidentally works fine and is hence the only way I am able to play them. It annoys me though! TrackMania Nations is one example of a game which will not work fullscreen, but for example Source games will. but I don't know enough about the technical side of things to work out why this might be.
Is this likely to be a hardware issue, or a software one? I updated my drivers (running newest CATs on an X800) and made sure my DirectX was the newest (9.0c). My monitor is a Samsung 913N.
Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
