My computer isn't showing the whole game screen in 320x240 res

[rock_chick]

Been away from the forum for a very long time but I'm back and trying to actually finish one game!

Anyway I think my really old monitor is like only 15 inches or something and when I try to run my game that's set for 320x240 res in full screen mode bits of it are chopped off and the only way I can see the whole thing properly is to  stretch my screen smaller. I'm using 800x600 res for my desktop and can't even try to get it to 640x anything. So is this basically only a problem with my monitor or an AGS thing? Is there anything I can besides getting a new monitor(and yeah I'm hoping to get a bigger one next year!) or changing the res to be higher because my background is drawn in 320x240?

[Gilbert]

Just mess with the monitor's settings (those buttons/knobs/etc. on it) and see if it can be resolved.

[Khris]

So you mean after shrinking the screen to see the whole 320x240, then quitting the game and being back at the 800x600 desktop, you have to stretch the screen?
If your monitor isn't capable of storing separate settings for each res, I'd really recommend getting a new one.

In the meantime, why don't you play the game in windowed mode using the 2x filter?

[rock_chick]

So you mean after shrinking the screen to see the whole 320x240, then quitting the game and being back at the 800x600 desktop, you have to stretch the screen?
If your monitor isn't capable of storing separate settings for each res, I'd really recommend getting a new one.

In the meantime, why don't you play the game in windowed mode using the 2x filter?

Hey I'd love to get a new one but I'll settle for a second hand one that's bigger than mine. Thing is I'm on such a tight budget that upgrading my system just isn't a reality at the moment. However as I said before hopefully next year(when money becomes gets less tight) I'll be getting a bigger monitor, more RAM and a better graphics card.

I tried your suggestion and it works fine, thanks! I'm actually going to set this as the default for the game because I think it makes the graphics look better since they're more designed for a higher res anyway(I originally was going with a higher res but realised that many of the graphics I was using were too small and made rooms look too big and scaling those graphics up just made them not look as good.).