Solved Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro Does Not Go Full Screen in Many Games
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@dominica's Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro seems to be a common factor in many video games not working properly in being able to go to "Full Screen" mode. The same games that work on other laptops or desktops behave differently on the Yoga 2 Pro.
Some games, definitely not all, appear in their native "windowed" mode and are so tiny on the high definition monitor that you cannot see them at all. If you set the games to "Full Screen" mode, which works fine on other machines, nothing happens at all. The games remain tiny and in a window.
We searched for other people having this issue and found some but the recommended fix of needing to go into the Intel graphics utility and changing the resolution to 1080p did nothing to change the game behaviours.
Of note, the graphics driver on the laptop cannot be updated. We tried that previously and newer drivers do not work with the Yoga 2 Pro, they cause the screen to flicker and fail. It is running a specifically older version for stability.
Anyone have any ideas on how to get the machine to allow games to go into Full Screen mode?
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Do shortcut keys make a difference?
- Alt + Enter
- Alt + Space + x
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Have you seen the below link?
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1040-JWMT-2947Have you turned off all the vSync, Anti-Ailiasing etc in the games options?
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This sounds like the problems I've had with regards to Virtual Box.
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Out of curiosity, when you updated the graphics driver, to the failed new one, did you also upgrade any other drivers (like chipset or BIOS/UEFI)?
Just because I'm curious and a bit of a sticky beak, did you upgrade it to Windows 10? If so, I imagine that you grabbed the driver that was released in July (10.18.15.4240).
As this is the problem child of your tech pool, I guess clean drivers from Intel are out of the question?
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I just checked mine. I have the same version that's listed, but the date on my machine is March 2015, and the website is Aug 2015
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@scottalanmiller Didn't you reinstall with a different OS right out of the box? And, we all know how proprietary OS's handle drivers. That's got to be a root issue, and definitely a detail worthy of mention.
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@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller Didn't you reinstall with a different OS right out of the box? And, we all know how proprietary OS's handle drivers. That's got to be a root issue, and definitely a detail worthy of mention.
and that root issue was a rootkit
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@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller Didn't you reinstall with a different OS right out of the box? And, we all know how proprietary OS's handle drivers. That's got to be a root issue, and definitely a detail worthy of mention.
When you say a different OS, do you mean like installing Linux instead of Windows? Or do you mean it came with Windows 8.1, and he simply wiped and reinstalled Windows 8.1?
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I think he put windows 10 on it...?
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Yes, it has Windows 10 on it.
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@art_of_shred I had the same problems as Scott when I had Windows 8.1 on my Yoga 2 Pro. Win10 doesn't seem to be any different.
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@art_of_shred said:
I think he put windows 10 on it...?
And so does mine now.
@scottalanmiller what video driver do you have today? I have a fairly recent one that came with Windows 10.
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@Dashrender I reverted to a really old driver. It's from 2006. So yeah.
I think that the one I had trouble with was from July of 2015. I am going to try a driver directly from Intel dated 26/10/2015. We'll see what happens.
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That will be a 5 - 12 hour download.
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Curious:
What's the native res on the laptop?
Is it touch screen?
Have you had the same issue on an external monitor?
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Yes, it is touch screen.
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Okay, here's the update:
I downloaded the current driver directly from Intel, tried to install it, and got the error that it wasn't certified for my machine, so I needed to get the driver directly from Lenovo. I went to Lenovo (huge pain in the ass because it detects me as Nicaragua and will only give me that site in Spanish) and eventually managed to find the Windows 10 driver for this machine. It is from July, and I'm pretty sure it's the one that was giving me problems before, but I decided to download and install it anyway and cross my fingers that I wouldn't have the same problems this time. After installing, I opened one of the problem games and it goes to full screen. So for now, this is resolved, but if I start having the screen flicker issues again, I'm going to have to just live with not playing those games until Lenovo updates the driver.
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Would you mind loading up Virtual box on that machine and see how it behalves now?
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@Dominica Are Spanish drivers compatible with English machines?
