Laptop only showing a quarter of the screen when trying to play PC game

[mayorne monkey]

Hi, I've just installed curse of monkey island on my laptop, but when go to play the installed game, only the top left hand side quarter of the screen shows a quarter of the picture and the rest is black.

 

Can anyone tell me why this is happening please?

 

Any help would be appreciated as i love this game and haven't played it for about 15 years.

 

Thanks in advance. Amanda & Kelvin

[Armageddon]

Hi Amanda first of all welcome to Fpch , could you provide us with the operating system you are using please.

 

Thank you

 

Dave

[mayorne monkey]

Hi, yes sorry I should have said, it's windows xp.

[Armageddon]

Hi Amanda because the game is old as you say it seems that you will have to play it in compatibly mode take a look at the following link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292533 follow the instructions and select windows 98 this should help get your game going in full screen

 

Dave

[mayorne monkey]

Hi, thanks for your reply but it didn't work :( Any other ideas please?

[kas982]

That game uses SCUMM engine, not supported by xp service pack 3. But you can use ScummVM http://www.scummvm.org/ to play it or any other Lucas arts stuff you have. They also have their own forum;)