How to prevent Windows 10 from resizing screen
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:29 pm
Some old games only run in specific resolutions. Sometimes there are ways to force them to use resolutions that weren't even thought about at the time the games were developed through manipulation of an .ini file or something similar. My native resolution is 1920x1080 on this Dell laptop.
Others simply can only be run in one resolution (VGA is the most likely candidate, but 800x600 for games from the XP era are also common). Since running them in a window even at only a 1080p native resolution makes it incredibly difficult to click anything the only sensible solution is to play in full screen.
That works well enough, the game starts, the resolution changes, you play and Windows automatically changes back to the standard resolution when you finish the game and even when you ALT+TAB out. What Windows doesn't do however is return open windows to how they were before. On the contrary, it resizes them, so they fit the smaller resolution.
Is there a way to correct this behavior?
Others simply can only be run in one resolution (VGA is the most likely candidate, but 800x600 for games from the XP era are also common). Since running them in a window even at only a 1080p native resolution makes it incredibly difficult to click anything the only sensible solution is to play in full screen.
That works well enough, the game starts, the resolution changes, you play and Windows automatically changes back to the standard resolution when you finish the game and even when you ALT+TAB out. What Windows doesn't do however is return open windows to how they were before. On the contrary, it resizes them, so they fit the smaller resolution.
Is there a way to correct this behavior?