Scaling Fullscreen applications?

I have a bit of a problem,
I'm trying to run a few games through steam,
FTL: Horizontally aligned perfectly by default but black borders on top and bottom, no proper resolution option
Magical Diary: Stretched from top to bottom, black borders on the sides, no resolution option.
Dungeons of Dredmor: Offers my native resolution option and works.
Is there a way i can scale the games up to my full screen size to get rid of the black borders in linux?
I'm using XFCE4 as my display manager currently.
Last edited by rabcor (2013-02-21 09:57:29)

Hi all,
According to your experience, what do you say,
J2ee applications scale better adding more boxes or
more cpu's ?
Thanks
Francesco That question cant be answered based on the information given. It depends on many things, and the application itself beeing one of the more important. Also, adding more machines doesnt necessarily scale the application at all, at least not upwards.

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