Windows 8 screen resolution

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In any game I play it does not matter what I set the resolution to I get a screen with black bars around it.
I made the mistake of upgrading to Win8 and that is when I started having this problem The resolution on the desktop is 1600x900 and I usually set games to something like 1024x768 I think it is.
I have searched over Google and found nothing can anyone help?
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Also is there a way to turn off the auto brightness setting in Win8? I tried doing some stuff with the drivers and nothing worked....

Thank you for any help!
 
Your issue is that 1600x900 is a 16:9 screen size(widescreen)
You set the game to 1024x768 and that is 4:3(letterbox)

Run the game in the screens native resolution.

And by brightness you mean the adaptive display which changes the screen brightness for bright and dark images or the laptops Fn key.
 
Spammer
Hello man. You have done not a big mistake by upgrading your operating system by windows 8. But you can still hide these black bars by setting the resolution by 1024x768 which is normally shows full screen on windows xp and on windows 8 as well.
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But not on a widescreen mate.
 
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If you don't want to run games at the full resolution for performance reasons there will be other resolutions in the aspect ratio you need to fill the screen, but if it's not a performance thing just run at 1600x900, there's absolutely no other reason to run at less than that.
 
Grayfox
Netbooks mate.

Those Eee PC things had that kind of screen size.
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They didn't run 1024x768 from what I recall, but rather 1024x600, and my Dell Mini 9 runs 1024x600 as well. I can't think of any netbooks with screens over 7 inches that ran a 4:3 ratio resolution.
 
Azuremen
They didn't run 1024x768 from what I recall, but rather 1024x600, and my Dell Mini 9 runs 1024x600 as well. I can't think of any netbooks with screens over 7 inches that ran a 4:3 ratio resolution.
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I worked on one last week where a user put win8 on it, big mistake since no apps run at 1024x768 and that is the max res for it.
 

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