Hi, I wonder whether you can get rid of the ugly black borders around the mainscreen when setting up a DirectX-screen in res 680x400 (16bpp). I display a screen in fullscreen-mode and get black borders around it, what should I do? Is it a problem caused by my 17" monitor? Subquestion: I''m trying to develop an adventure game like ''phantasmagoria'' where every scene is an AVI-file. Does anyone have any recommendation on what resolution to use for acceptable appearance for such a game? Any other useful hints/tricks/considerations/views on such a game-project is more than welcome. Newbie

I have a 17 inch monitor. I get those black borders too. My monitor allows me to adjust the width and height of the displayed area, which makes those borders thicker, or narrower. I can adjust to the point where there is no border. The controls on mine at least are directly on the monitor.

The "black borders" are where there is no image projected on the screen and it appears on all screens, except lcd-screens.
I don''t think you can change the color of them. If they are big you should have trim functions on you''re monitor to "get rid of them".

Those black areas are called "overscan" I believe. There is a way of setting that color, if memory serves me correctly. I remember once writing a game that had a really annoying bug of rotating through the pallete in the overscan area. Causes quite a headache. However, I haven''t heard of, or seen this happen in years, so I''m not sure where you can find the information on programming that. Honestly, though, the best color is black... and you can adjust the monitor settings to make the effect as small as possible.


*oof*

Hmm... DDnewbie, check to see what resolution your desktop is set to. I have a feeling that if it is set to any resolution higher than 640x480 that this black border will appear.
. Try setting your desktop to 640x480 (if it isn''t already) and running your Direct-X app. If it goes away, then the black border is the unused part of the screen and the graphics mode isn''t being changed. If the app still runs the same way (and consequently you desktop gains this attribute) then you monitor probably is underscanning and you''ll either get a different monitor or live with it.