Is this normal? Gaming, and screen resizing

I just played a game earlier to test my macbook. In 800x600, instead of stretching across the screen like my old Dell did, it just showed a centered tiny window with a huge black border around it. Is that normal? I've never heard of any system doing that before.
It's a windows game, using the default bootcamp drivers.

 

Going to have to point down at my sig on this one.

 

Real helpful Hep.

 

I'm quite sure this is a driver setting. Look around in the Nvidia control panel and you should be able to control the display's behavior in non-native resolutions.

 

Intel. I already looked, and there was no (atleast obvious) setting to change that.

 

Last time I used a Intel graphics card was in a Dell many years ago (855 GM I believe it was), and the setting was changed in the BIOS. That won't work now.

 

Interesting. Did you actually change the settings in your BIOS and it had the expected result?
I suppose this is something I'll have to live with. I changed my desktop resolution to 800x600, and sure enough, the game filled the whole screen. So it just downsizes the game resolution and fills in the outer areas with a huge black border. It's kind of annoying, but I could live with it.

 

that has to do with the scaling, just go to the nvidia control panel and select it to stretch it across the screen or stretch scaled to the native res

 

It's Intel integrated graphics. There is no such option in the intel control panel...

 

I think the problem would be related to the game itself. What game is it?

 

Hey, I found it. It's listed under the hotkeys of the intel control panel, "display panel fitting". Hold CTRL+ALT+F11, and it switches between 3 different states. Native resolution (small window, black borders on all 4 sides), scaled vertically (black borders on the left and right) or stretched full screen.