Question Games don't play fullscreen when they should

[hpafonso]

Hey guys. I recently got a brand new laptop, with pretty acceptable specs for general college use, but I wanted one that I could also use for some light gaming, like league of legends, cs:go, and so on. It's an ASUS VivoBook, with a Ryzen 5 3500U (Vega 8 Graphics), with 8Gb of RAM and a 256Gb SSD + 1TB setup. The odd thing is, whenever I choose to play a game at a lower resolution than the laptop's screen (1080p), and I choose to stay fullscreen, it preserves the actual resolution, and plays the game in the top left corner. Like, if I choose for example, 800x600 fullscreen, it just plays a square on the top left corner. I uploaded a pic with the actual problem. Everything in my Radeon Settings is set to full panel. I'll leave some pics of what my screen looks like when I set CS:GO's res. to 800x600 fullscreen, and some print screens of my Radeon Settings. If anyone has any idea of what this might be I would be so, but so grateful. My laptop plays some games just fine, but they must be lower than 1080p to run at 60fps+, and not being able to play them fullscreen bugs me so much! Thanks again guys.

 

[dudio]

This may be obvious, but have you tried the keyboard shortcut to go to fullscreen... hold 'Alt' and press 'Enter' ?

 

[hpafonso]

This may be obvious, but have you tried the keyboard shortcut to go to fullscreen... hold 'Alt' and press 'Enter' ?

Yep, I sure did, and nothing happens. I know this is super weird but I don't know why the hell this is happening.

 

[divadoll]

I had the same problem. Games opened full screen in Windows 7 if I checked "fullscreen" in the game options. With Windows 10 however, I got a small windowed box. Go back to your game's options and make sure fullscreen is checked. Also see if there is a box for widesreen or aspect ratio. Check the widescreen box and if you see aspect ratio, make sure that box is unchecked. My games now work. Good luck.