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Any way to prevent game scaling to full screen?

Intel probably recently did some changes in their graphics driver settings and now if your laptop resolution is set to 1920x1080, there's only one option available - Maintain Display Scaling.

You can't select "Maintain Aspect Ratio" or any other option like you could do 1 or 2 years ago.

Same is described under this thread.

Now problem is, whenever I play any game in full screen with 1024x768 resolution, it stretches to full screen. What I want is black bars on left and right so game doesn't stretch.

The only solution is to first set desktop resolution to 1024x768 and then change scaling option to Maintain Aspect Ratio.

But it is tedious. You have to change desktop resolutions every time you play and exit the game.

So is there any other solution or workaround to somehow override what this Intel's new feature is doing?

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Hello vikaskumar2299, welcome to the Microsoft community, I'll be happy to help you today;

Interestingly, most users want to remove the black edges of the screen;

You can change resolution settings only in the Intel Graphics application;

Open Intel Graphics;
Click Screen;
Change the resolution to the desired one;
Under Scale, set "Keep Aspect Ratio";
Start the game;

However if you use another screen resolution for the desktop you will have to change these settings every time you play;

Hope this helps, see you soon!

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I think you did not understand my problem. I don't want to change screen resolution to my desired resolution. It is tedious. Just think about it. You have to change screen resolution every time you play game and when you exit you have to revert to default.

Instead I need some solution to stop the display scaling to the edges on left and right irrespective of what my acreen resolution is. In my case it is 1920x1080 and Intel app doesnt have Maintain Aspect ratio option. They removed that option and it is available only in lower resolutioms.

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Dear vikaskumar2299,what exactly is your intel graphics card model?

Have you tried updating your video card drivers?

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Intel UHD Graphics 620

Yes, I have the latest drivers.

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Dear vikaskumar2299,I understand that you already have the latest drivers;

In that case you can try the method provided in the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t4UyuUMkVM


Hope it works, see you soon!

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But it gives the opposite of what I want? I mean he is showing a solution to remove the bars? In my case I need the bars i.e., stop the scaling.

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Dear vikaskumar2299,as in the video changing the value to 3 removes the slashes;
If you change the value to 4 the black bars will be back;

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Oh. But is it safe to do? Could there be any harmful 'side effect' of this?

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Dear vikaskumar2299,I believe you will have no problems;

However you can back up the registry before changing the values;
Open regedit;
Click File > Export;
Select a location and save the file;

If you have problems after changing the values, just double-click on the saved registry file and the backup will be restored;

Hope it works, see you soon!

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The video told to do this in all 5-6 configurations found. But I noticed these resolutions: I think each config is for different resolution. So I can do this only for one config (1920x1080) only right?

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Last updated January 19, 2023 Views 1,826 Applies to: