I'm running an older video-card (radeon 4850) in Windows 10. The card has support for Win7 & barely Win8.
So, is there a small software program that could let me scale the desktop to fit the screen in Win10..?
Is the screen resolution not correct for your monitor?
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You just need to follow the steps for it in Windows 10.
Control Panel [if you can't see it] can be accessed by pressing [WIN] + R and typing 'control.exe'
Yes it is. It's a 24" monitor, 16:9 ratio, set at 1920 by 1080. AMD doesn't support this video-card in Win10...:-(
Can you try using older drivers win 8.1 compatible. You can try installing using compatibility mode.
I have tried compatibility mode and as as administrator, but no success.
Try older drivers. Does windows finds any drivers by itself ?
I've tried drivers for that card from Win7, vista, 8, 8.1. In device manager it sees it as a 4850 like it should. But Microsoft doesn't make a driver for it, nor through update-drivers option.
Too bad. If i come with idea i'll write.
Solved the problem by getting a used nVidia 8600 GTS video-card. Windows 10 recognizes it, so I can scale the desktop to fit the two Panasonic 32-inch screens.
December 18, 2020
For those who have older video cards (mine is an AMD 4350 from 2009 on a HP Pavilion Desktop), and have a 2 inch black border with no content inside your monitor window, here is a registry hack that works.
HERE: How to Fix: Windows 10 Black Border (Shrinking Screen) | www.infopackets.com
Every time Windows-10 does a major update, my max window size decreases to leave that 2 inch black border on all 4 corners. This Registry change is a pain in the but for those of us who don't like following detailed instructions, but it works.
Thankfully we'll only have to do it until we decide to upgrade to a modern P.C..
-Allen in Chicagoland
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