Full Screen Fix (Win 10)

[Equation™]

Don't worry your little heads, I have found the fix for the game showing in windowed rather than full screen (this also works on other games that do this too, like Broken Sword 4) It was Broken Sword 4 that i downloaded from GOG.com that got me testing how to make it full screen and this simple fix also works on Max Payne 1 and Max Payne 2....

Follow these instructions -

To begin with for newbies, by pressing CTRL, ALT and DELETE... This will bring up your "Task manager"

1) Whilst on desktop (not in game) bring up your task manager and make sure on "options" it is ticked on "Always show on top"

2) exit Task manager and open the Max payne game as normal.

3) once the game is open, press CTRL, ALT & DELETE to bring up Task manager

4) Now go to options on Task Manager and click on "Always show on top" so it is unticked

5) Find Max Payne on the "process" list and click the arrow on the left of it.

6) Then on the Max payne that shows below the original Max Payne, right click and press "Maximise"

7) The game will now be Full screen, move your mouse as far to the right as you can and click to make sure it isnt clicking the Task Manager
Thats running in the background.....

And Taaa-Daaa you can now enjoy the game in Full screen.

A little bit of a pain this has to be done everytime but it's quite a simple workaround.

Love Equation x

[GaerBear94]

Thank you very much! worked for me.

[sshortguy1]

taa daa ??? didn't work at all it still goes to centered ,,,, can't play the game like if it was on w 8.1 4 others i talked to had the same problem and gave up trying b/c like most operating systems got to have to wait

[frequencybebop]

This worked great. Thanks.

[sshortguy1]

i figured it out , but only works from time to to time i still get the windowed mode can't fix it perm.

[Icedwhisper]

Thanks A LOT man! I've been looking for a fix for ages! I never thought that windows 10 would do this! btw, you've got an awesome PC!

[Equation™]

Originally posted by Icedwhisper:

Thanks A LOT man! I've been looking for a fix for ages! I never thought that windows 10 would do this! btw, you've got an awesome PC!

No problem, glad I helped. There are only a few games i know of that have this windowed effect on Windows 10 but this "fix" should sort it for any others that have the same problem :)

[Icedwhisper]

Originally posted by Equation™:

Originally posted by Icedwhisper:

Thanks A LOT man! I've been looking for a fix for ages! I never thought that windows 10 would do this! btw, you've got an awesome PC!

No problem, glad I helped. There are only a few games i know of that have this windowed effect on Windows 10 but this "fix" should sort it for any others that have the same problem :)

Yep, it even works for Max Payne 2 ;)

[sshortguy1]

Originally posted by Icedwhisper:

Originally posted by Equation™:

No problem, glad I helped. There are only a few games i know of that have this windowed effect on Windows 10 but this "fix" should sort it for any others that have the same problem :)

Yep, it even works for Max Payne 2 ;)

it only worked maybe 1 to 2 times out of 5 tries , why isn't working for everytime i tried it ?

[Icedwhisper]

Originally posted by sshortguy1:

Originally posted by Icedwhisper:

Yep, it even works for Max Payne 2 ;)

it only worked maybe 1 to 2 times out of 5 tries , why isn't working for everytime i tried it ?

hmmm.. I don't know.. it works for me every time..

[SirPantsington]

Glad someone found a solution. Too bad you have to do it every time you launch the game.

[sshortguy1]

it worked a couple of times but now it won't work at all , i got it fixed on mafia 1 on w 10 but on max payne 1 and 2 it is useless , it won't work

[adleen]

Just use this widescreen fix[thirteenag.github.io]

[Shadow]

Originally posted by adleen:

Just use this widescreen fix[thirteenag.github.io]

thanks, really helped..
any idea how to make steam overlay work with this game while using this fix?

[medsAcnG]

Thanks , work great for me

[chaotic_inside]

for me, a much easier solution was enable compatibility mode as XP service pack 3, after that the game automatically switched in full mode.