Windows 10: Is there a way to make fullscreen games occupy the entire screen?

I play an older game which works in full screen in a small resolution like 1366x768 or something similar. As it is right now, the game only takes up a small area in the center of the screen, where ideally I'd like it to be the whole height of the screen with black bars on the sides. Attached is a photo of what the game looks like right now, my monitor's resolution is 1920x1080.

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Black screen when playing games on fullscreen.

Hi Syrius,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



To have clarity on this issue and guide you accordingly, kindly help us with the following information.

• Is the issue specific to a game or does it occur on all the games?
  
• Is the issue specific to only games or does it occur while playing full screen videos?
  

If the issue occurs while playing videos in full screen, you may want to uninstall and reinstall the video card drivers to see if it helps.

• Right click the Windows icon on the taskbar and choose
  Device manager.
  
• Expand Display Adapters, right click on your video card driver and choose
  Uninstall.
  
• Check the box Delete the driver software for this device.
  
• Reboot the machine for Windows to automatically reinstall the drivers.
  

If the issue is specific to games, it could be a compatibility issue. I suggest you to refer to the article
Make older programs compatible with this version of Windows and run the games
in compatibility mode to see if it helps.



If the issue persists, it could be due to the full screen optimization. As you’ve already updated the drivers, I would suggest you to disable the same and check if it works.

• Open Settings and go to System > Display.
  
• On the right pane, click on the Advanced graphics settings
  hyperlink.
  
• Uncheck Enable fullscreen optimizations
  and exit Settings.
  
• Restart the machine and see if the issue persists.
  

Let us know how it goes.

Regards,

 

Record entire screen using Game Bar

Hello everyone, my challenge is how to make the game (screen) recorder to capture whatever/everything/anything that is being done on my screen. So far I have observed that the Win+G function only captures what is being done only on
the active window when the function was launched.

For instance, when screenshotting, there are two basic ways namely:

• Screenshot of active window only = Alt + PrtScr
• Screenshot of entire screen = PrtScr

I'm looking for the screen video recording equivalent of these two commands (if such exist). Does anyone know a command that will allow a user to record video of the entire screen, or do I have to rely on a third-party application to
do that?

***Modified title from: Issue with Screen Recording using "Win + G" (video game recorder) function***

 

PC games not in fullscreen in Windows 10

UPDATE

I shut down my computer last night and lost all previous settings.

I set size back to 125% and Display setting to 1440 x 900 and then restarted (not shutdown) my computer and was able to play games in fullscreen again after I turned the fullscreen option on, in the game.

In response to the following post, I have a Dell S2340M monitor and it's not getting any bars around it, the game is covering the entire screen. Hope you find a solution.