When ever i play PC games on my laptop the screen gose small?

Question

please help it dose it with Halo the trail version and Age of Empires 3 Asian Dynasties i haven't tried other games i try ed every thing to fix it i have windows Xp please hook me up with answer

Answer 1

The games have their own cursors and it might be because of your video settings in the game. The higher the resolution the smaller the cursor, the smaller the resolution the bigger the cursor. But beware tampering with the resolution makes the game look great or fuzzy.

Answer 2

Its a bios option, it puts the games at the native resolution of your screen, so if you're playing a game thats only 800x600 and your screens native resolution is 1280x1024 it will appear small.  The option in the bios is to "stretch" the image to fill the screen, and should be in the "display" part of the bios.  Bios key is usually delete or F2 at bootup.

Answer 3

Chances are, the game is running in a different resolution than Windows. To check Windows' resolution, right click the desktop>Properties>Settings and look there.

then adjust the games' settings to match that.

Answer 4

This is not uncommon with games on laptops.  The game has changed the video resolution to something smaller than the native resolution of the laptop display.  Games do this to improve performance.  

To fix it you need to find the setting within the game that lets you change the size or resolution of the screen.  Change it to something higher.