I run battlefield vietnam at the (800x600) because otherwise it lags, and it lags HARD. I might have to do some tweaking but this issue is really starting to tick me, as it affects all games I play (Halo, CounterStrike, DOD, Desert Combat, BFVietnam, Medal Of Honor, even AOE2). I will try pressing the fn combo but if anyone else has more helpful advice I would appreciate it!

I had the exact same thing happen to me.  Here's how I fixed it.

Right click background------>Properties/Settings/Advanced/Displays/Panel.  Make sure that there is a check in the blue circle next to the "scale image" and a black dot in the radio button spot for "expand to full panel size".  The blue spot may appear grayed out.  Click inside of it to select it.

With me this does solve the problem. Games where always stretched over the full panel size. I closed the lid and the 9100 went to standby mode. Since then the screens are not stretched anymore. I configured it as described by you (it was not ticked BTW).

Are you using the drivers supplied by Dell? 

Thanks, I will try that and let you know.

Sorry, does not solve the problem.

That is exactly what I did and then had to find out the cure.  I pressed the small button near the power switch to put the unit into standby, then when I released it it came back but games no longer played in full stretched mode.  It took me some time to find the setting to fix it.  I hope the original poster reads this and it fixes his problem too.

I was using the original ATI drivers supplied by Dell, dated last December I believe.  Then my son got Doom 3 and that would crash at the same spot in the game all the time.  We read the forums here and have since put on the omega drivers and they work great.  Try them if you want.  Remember to do the uninstall of the ATI control panel as they state before you put the omega drivers on.  Read about this several threads below this one in topics called Doom3, 9100 game problems, or something of that sort.

Yesterday I also faced the same problem. In the middle of game I put my Inspiron 9100 in standby mode. When I reactivated it game was not coming in full mode. All the games were facing the same problem. I thought may be it's display driver got corrupted. So I removed the graphics card from "Device Manager" and restarted the system. After reboot game started working fine but after another restart same problem surfaced. I repeated this process 3 times and results were same.

Then I decided to reinstall the drivers, for that I removed ATI driver from the control panel and reinstalled the latest ATI driver available from Dell. Now I started facing one more problem, display was not stretching to full screen for resolutions other then native resolution (WUXGA).

Now I had left with one option, thanks to Windows Restore facility. I restored windows configuration to last good configuration and it worked.

Can anyone tell me why this thing happened? If video drivers were corrupted then this problem should got solved after reinstalling the video driver.

Just follow the solution as written by dgerard above, this works. My laptop can go in standby mode now and when it comes out of it my games are still running in full screen mode. Of course a resolution of 1600 x 1200 will not be stretched over the full panel size (1920 x 1200) since the height fits exactly. That is what I noticed.

Thanks Chris, It worked for me. I simulated the same problem and fixed it using steps specified in "dgerard" message.

 

Message Edited by Anil Garg on 08-17-2004 10:45 PM