I would be more than grateful if someone could tell me why, when I try to play a game on my laptop, only the top left quarter of the screen is used - the remaining three quarters of the screen is black, and therefore all of this section of the imagery is lost in the blackness too! I did 'try' to update my vid driver last week and since then, this has happened..... would it be a fault there? I had the evaluation version of Winzip - which has expired - so perhaps the answer lies there. My hair is well and truly being pulled out! Help.
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Jump to PostThis will happen when a game has a hard time with the video card, or the CD is not being read properly. When a game starts, it runs a little program called a "screen blanker", this lays a black field over your desktop so that the game can essentially take …
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