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Something I encountered over the weekend...

I was letting HoI run on my laptop on battery power (sorry; don't have the specs in front of me (I can provide them tonight) but it's a brand-new machine) and foolishly walked out of the room for a while.

Walked back in, and the computer had gone into "hibernate" mode due to a low battery.

Totally my fault, and got everything working again. But when I booted up HoI again, the game was running just fine, but it displayed in a small box in the center of a black screen, rather than filling up the whole screen. Apparently Windows XP had changed some setting or other when it had gone into hibernation, and the only change I could see was that HoI no longer displayed properly.

I finally did a system restore, and that fixed the problem, but for the life of me I couldn't figure out what was making HoI display like that. Any ideas?

I realize the answer may be something really obvious, but as you may be able to tell, computers aren't exactly my strong suit.
 
What is the resolution of your LCD panel and what res do you run HoI at? LCDs generally have an option when you run at a resolution that is smaller than their native one: expand image to fullscreen or show in a box. On my Inspiron 8200 there's a function key to change modes (Fn-F7); could also be a BIOS setting or controlled by software I suppose.
 
jdrou said:
What is the resolution of your LCD panel and what res do you run HoI at? LCDs generally have an option when you run at a resolution that is smaller than their native one: expand image to fullscreen or show in a box. On my Inspiron 8200 there's a function key to change modes (Fn-F7); could also be a BIOS setting or controlled by software I suppose.
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That's probably it; I know for a fact that HoI runs at a lower resolution than the screen likes. However, changing HoI's resolution to the top one didn't fix the problem.

It's probably like you said - the display mode changed somehow when the battery went low.

I guess I should read up on my monitor settings - this is the first laptop I've owned (in case you couldn't tell :)) and I'm still getting used to using Windows XP.
 
The key can vary; my Thinkpad 600X uses Fn-F8 for the same function (key can be disabled in BIOS).
 
hmm, owners manual, hmm! :D
leave it in the bathroom and eventually it will get read.
 
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