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VirtualBox Not Running Games in Full Screen.

Posted: 7. Jul 2014, 17:56
by FurqanHanif
i installed windows XP in Virtual box, windows Xp Screen is at full Resolution which is 1366x768 but when i game run the game run only 800x600 or 1024x768 which means game window size is Too Small... Why is that and how i solve this??? Also Windows starting Logo etc are also runs in Smaller Size but when windows Start the screen Become full and again running game the same problem... :( :( :(

Re: VirtualBox Not Running Games in Full Screen.

Posted: 7. Jul 2014, 18:14
by loukingjr
Early Windows games were written to use 4:3 ratio monitors. There is no mechanism in the game to fill 16:9 or 16:10 screens. Even if you could stretch the game out horizontally it would look terrible/distorted, stretched out like a 4:3 wallpaper applied to a wide screen.

Re: VirtualBox Not Running Games in Full Screen.

Posted: 8. Jul 2014, 01:17
by BillG
Much the same for the Windows logo on boot. Incidentally the same thing happens on a physical machine. The logo is displayed in a low resolution 4:3 mode.