[Mobhack]

The other thing about the VFX video driver is that it is very picky about the pixel count (width or height) being divisible by - its been a long time since I dug into it - 2 or 4 pixels, I think the latter.

I recollect that I had to write special recognition code for the standard el-cheapo 15 inch laptop screens that are out there in the millions - 1378x780 or similar. My own Dell laptop was one of these, which helped the debug. The width had a 2 pixels remainder if a division by 4 was done. The code I put in there therefore shaves off 2 pixels from the width the standard Windows environment call gives, so the VFX driver will create a screen rather than abort with the usual DirectX error when that value-2 for desktop width is passed to it. It leaves a just noticeable margin at the edges where the desktop backround shows through.

The video card hardware also makes a difference - the cheap second hand refurbished Dell I3 desktop I have at the moment (99 quid from the local computer shop, + extra 4 MB of RAM +25 quid) has an integrated Intel graphics that seems to return a smaller area than the desktop - it leaves about a 2 pixel margin on each side. I may play with the Windows setup, as I think you can tell windows what margin size windows have in pixels somewhere deep in the preferences code, and that may have some bearing on that weirdness.