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Black Mamba

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4:3 aspect ratio on a widescreen monitor

Is it possible to force the game into a 4:3 aspect ratio, like in this image:

What I want is the picture in the middle, a 4:3 ratio, with black bars on each side.

I have tried various things, like changing the Aspect Control in my monitor settings (it's greyed out), swapping cables (HDMI and DisplayPort), installing the latest monitor driver and changing the resolution to 800x600 in Windows settings, but nothing works. Customer service is also useless.

My monitor is the following model: https://www.asus.com/ca-en/displays-des … /techspec/

Any ideas on how to get the 4:3 resolution with black bars?

Last edited by Black Mamba (2024-01-10 00:41:03)

lllJANll

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Re: 4:3 aspect ratio on a widescreen monitor

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing … u-scaling/

I think you can also fix it with dgvoodoo2.

Black Mamba

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Re: 4:3 aspect ratio on a widescreen monitor

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing … u-scaling/

I think you can also fix it with dgvoodoo2.

Thanks, that solved it for me.

Arkos

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Re: 4:3 aspect ratio on a widescreen monitor

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You can set this via GPU Driver settings.

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Black Mamba

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Re: 4:3 aspect ratio on a widescreen monitor

One problem I noticed is after a while, the game freezes and crashes to desktop. I am using GPU scaling in the Nvidia Control Panel + the dgVoodoo fix. Any idea why that might happen?

Kevin

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Re: 4:3 aspect ratio on a widescreen monitor

Maybe install without the widescreen patch? no idea

Arkos

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Re: 4:3 aspect ratio on a widescreen monitor

One problem I noticed is after a while, the game freezes and crashes to desktop. I am using GPU scaling in the Nvidia Control Panel + the dgVoodoo fix. Any idea why that might happen?

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You marked "Avoid Scaling settings by Game"?

It's just under the GPU Setting.  ("No Scaling" or  "Keep Aspect Ratio").

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lllJANll

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Re: 4:3 aspect ratio on a widescreen monitor

If you dont need dgvoodoo2, try removing it, if you need it try a difference output api.