how to make full screen games black borders disappear

alexhob123 · Feb 14, 2026

Winuser said:
They only way to do it is to stretch the game to fit the screen. By doing this all four sides would be streched. Because there's no room on the top and bottom of the screen the top and bottom would be cut off.

how do I do this anyway

Winuser · Feb 14, 2026

alexhob123 said:
how do I do this anyway

I'm not sure but you may be able to do it by going to your display settings and trying different display resolutions. If it works I have doubts you will like the results.

Winuser · Feb 14, 2026

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alexhob123 · Feb 15, 2026

Winuser said:
I'm not sure but you may be able to do it by going to your display settings and trying different display resolutions. If it works I have doubts you will like the results.

I'm not going to bother doing this because I have no idea what I am doing

Feuer · Feb 15, 2026

alexhob123 said:
i'm not going to use cnc-draw

Why not? It really handle most of hard-coded games without problem, even they have special versions for some of games.

Btw I saw your messages in DxWnd site, if you cannot handle that problem there, it is really hard to find a way to do it here.

And when I was in DxWnd site I realized that they handle Road Rash, now I play Road Rash in 1920*1080 without borders and bad resolution impacts.

So i have to thank you make me look at DxWnd site lol.

I have to find also way to make TerrorDrome and Cactus Bruce games fullscreen in 1920*1080 without borders, menu bars, bad resolution impacts.

alexhob123 · Feb 15, 2026

the only reason I won't use cnc-draw is because if I alt tab out of the game if I have chrome open it will always go to a small screen and I always have to maximise chrome to make it full screen again and i don't know how to set up the programme correctly for it to work for 1920*1080

Feuer · Feb 15, 2026

alexhob123 said:
if I alt tab out of the game if I have chrome open it will always go to a small screen and I always have to maximise chrome to make it full screen again

That I remember DxWnd has a tweak for that in expert mode.

Maybe you have to run game in window (but fullscreen 1920*1080 window) to not get that impact.

alexhob123 · Feb 15, 2026

i like playing games in full screen not window mode i think i tried it before but didn't like it very much

Feuer · Feb 15, 2026

alexhob123 said:
i like playing games in full screen not window mode i think i tried it before but didn't like it very much

you are still playing your game in fullscreen, system thinks you are playing windowed, but you are playing in fullscreen.

alexhob123 · Feb 15, 2026

okay can you give me a guide on how to get the game running then using the programme or a step by step guide from yourself

Feuer · Feb 15, 2026

Download cnc-ddraw

Put it to your game folder

open ini file with notepad

make both windowed and fullscreen "true"

you have to modify other values for your system and game spesific.

alexhob123 · Feb 15, 2026

okay will give it a try and see if works what do you mean about other values for your system and game spesific

spapakons · Feb 15, 2026

The default scaling method for any lower resolution is the monitor switches to that resolution (display scaling). If you see black borders for 4:3 resolutions this is because the graphics card tries to keep the original aspect ratio. You can go at nVidia Control Panel and switch to stretch, so any lower resolution fills the screen. To improve sharpness you may also switch from display scaling to GPU scaling. It's all there at the display section. I don't currently have access to my PC to guide you exactly, but you get the idea.

alexhob123 · Feb 15, 2026

spapakons said:
The default scaling method for any lower resolution is the monitor switches to that resolution (display scaling). If you see black borders for 4:3 resolutions this is because the graphics card tries to keep the original aspect ratio. You can go at nVidia Control Panel and switch to stretch, so any lower resolution fills the screen. To improve sharpness you may also switch from display scaling to GPU scaling. It's all there at the display section. I don't currently have access to my PC to guide you exactly, but you get the idea.

i tried that but the black bars still show i don't think I am doing it correctly which is stretch

alexhob123 · Feb 15, 2026

Feuer said:
Download cnc-ddraw

Put it to your game folder

open ini file with notepad

make both windowed and fullscreen "true"

you have to modify other values for your system and game spesific.

will this work for 1920x1080 and fix chrome going to small screen all of the time

alexhob123 · Feb 15, 2026

I want to make sure something works before i try anything you guys are giving to me

Feuer · Feb 15, 2026

But real life isn't like that.

You try > You fail > You try again > You succeed

I cannot install that game because I will never play in my life.
I shared my own experiences with some old game wrappers.

Share your experiences so other people can benefit from it.

alexhob123 · Feb 15, 2026

okay I will give it a try

alexhob123 · Feb 15, 2026

@Feuer what other settings do i need to change i have only changed resolution to width 1920 and height to 1080
Run in windowed mode rather than going fullscreen
windowed=true and Override the width/height settings shown above and always stretch to fullscreen
; Note: Can be combined with 'windowed=true' to get windowed-fullscreen aka borderless mode
fullscreen=true is this correct

it works but the game can only run in software rendering and not 3d car rendering since it is not allowed with cnc-draw so the graphics are not perfect

alexhob123 · Feb 15, 2026

is there any other programmes that will allow 3d render make the game 1920x1080 chrome not small screen when alt tab, not crash as well and get rid of the black bars other than dxwnd and dgvoodo2

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