Black Bars Fix [OUTDATED]

[Zeikar]

This post is a bit old now, so just try latest reshade with fubax-shaders aspect ratio. However some on-screen elements may disappear.

[Zeikar]

Originally posted by Angelo Leonhart:

Originally posted by Zeikar:

Just download this file and extract its contents directly in the game folder

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Q2vQq4mqd4YrJS41_apfV6cuXSlK84F/view?usp=sharing

And then this file and extract directly into game folder:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TIL_z2KZ0bg01TSWuVSe8W9_WQuvEgRj/view?usp=sharing

Then after you launch the game and don't wish to bother with the Tutorial just exit the game and go into game folder edit ReShade.ini TutorialProgress= set that to TutorialProgress=4

Its as simple as that, putting those files in the main directory the first zip will put reshade-shaders folder and opengl32.dll into game folder and the 2nd file adds more files to reshade-shaders folder. Then you just launch the game once or twice (probably twice) and you're done.

Ummmm, I've done everything you said but it didn't work .-.
Do I need to do something on ReShade? I mean, after pressing "Home"

Magnify and reshade settings checked

[Leonhart]

Originally posted by Zeikar:

Originally posted by Angelo Leonhart:

Are there any tutorial videos of this? I don't know a single thing of how using ReShade

Just download this file and extract its contents directly in the game folder

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Q2vQq4mqd4YrJS41_apfV6cuXSlK84F/view?usp=sharing

And then this file and extract directly into game folder:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TIL_z2KZ0bg01TSWuVSe8W9_WQuvEgRj/view?usp=sharing

Then after you launch the game and don't wish to bother with the Tutorial just exit the game and go into game folder edit ReShade.ini TutorialProgress= set that to TutorialProgress=4

Its as simple as that, putting those files in the main directory the first zip will put reshade-shaders folder and opengl32.dll into game folder and the 2nd file adds more files to reshade-shaders folder. Then you just launch the game once or twice (probably twice) and you're done.

Do I need anything more than these two files? Sorry about it, it's cause I really don't know about modding and reshading .-.

[Zeikar]

Originally posted by Angelo Leonhart:

Originally posted by Zeikar:

Just download this file and extract its contents directly in the game folder

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Q2vQq4mqd4YrJS41_apfV6cuXSlK84F/view?usp=sharing

And then this file and extract directly into game folder:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TIL_z2KZ0bg01TSWuVSe8W9_WQuvEgRj/view?usp=sharing

Then after you launch the game and don't wish to bother with the Tutorial just exit the game and go into game folder edit ReShade.ini TutorialProgress= set that to TutorialProgress=4

Its as simple as that, putting those files in the main directory the first zip will put reshade-shaders folder and opengl32.dll into game folder and the 2nd file adds more files to reshade-shaders folder. Then you just launch the game once or twice (probably twice) and you're done.

Do I need anything more than these two files? Sorry about it, it's cause I really don't know about modding and reshading .-.

It should work with those 2 downloads.

[Monkee]

Awesome job, but really wish square would have done this. Everyone should be paying you instead of them.

[Leonhart]

Originally posted by Zeikar:

Originally posted by Angelo Leonhart:

Do I need anything more than these two files? Sorry about it, it's cause I really don't know about modding and reshading .-.

It should work with those 2 downloads.

It's strange, I did everything you said, I just didn't understand that "magnify check" I don't know what that is lol

[Zeikar]

Originally posted by Angelo Leonhart:

Originally posted by Zeikar:

It should work with those 2 downloads.

It's strange, I did everything you said, I just didn't understand that "magnify check" I don't know what that is lol

I can't help you must be doing something wrong and there is too much of a language barrier to explain.

[Paul]

Is this community full of dinguses who don't understand how aspect ratios work?

This is not a fix. All it does is stretch the image, making everything look unnaturally wide, which you can already do through your video card drivers. The game assets were rendered in 4:3 and that is how the game was meant to be viewed. You can't convert it into true widescreen.

[Leonhart]

Originally posted by Paul:

Is this community full of dinguses who don't understand how aspect ratios work?

This is not a fix. All it does is stretch the image, making everything look unnaturally wide, which you can already do through your video card drivers. The game assets were rendered in 4:3 and that is how the game was meant to be viewed. You can't convert it into true widescreen.

Yeah, I kinda understand that, the thing is, is that I usually don't use softwares or mods and etc
I just download the game and play it lol, I did everything the tutorial says, but my game still has Black Bars, the ReShade inside the game doesn't recognize the ReShade.ini file

[Paul]

Originally posted by Angelo Leonhart:

Originally posted by Paul:

Is this community full of dinguses who don't understand how aspect ratios work?

This is not a fix. All it does is stretch the image, making everything look unnaturally wide, which you can already do through your video card drivers. The game assets were rendered in 4:3 and that is how the game was meant to be viewed. You can't convert it into true widescreen.

Yeah, I kinda understand that, the thing is, is that I usually don't use softwares or mods and etc
I just download the game and play it lol, I did everything the tutorial says, but my game still has Black Bars, the ReShade inside the game doesn't recognize the ReShade.ini file

Do yourself a favor, delete this silly mod and play with the black bars. That's how it's meant to look. The black bars are there because your monitor is larger than a TV screen from the 90s which the game was designed for.

[Leonhart]

Originally posted by Paul:

Originally posted by Angelo Leonhart:

Yeah, I kinda understand that, the thing is, is that I usually don't use softwares or mods and etc
I just download the game and play it lol, I did everything the tutorial says, but my game still has Black Bars, the ReShade inside the game doesn't recognize the ReShade.ini file

Do yourself a favor, delete this silly mod and play with the black bars. That's how it's meant to look. The black bars are there because your monitor is larger than a TV screen from the 90s which the game was designed for.

You don't need to be THAT rude... The old version of VIII also was 4:3 on preset but there were way of stretching it

[Leonhart]

Originally posted by Zeikar:

Originally posted by Angelo Leonhart:

It's strange, I did everything you said, I just didn't understand that "magnify check" I don't know what that is lol

I can't help you must be doing something wrong and there is too much of a language barrier to explain.

Sorry to bother dude, but can you confirm if I did it right?
http://prntscr.com/p33ac4

[Zeikar]

Originally posted by Angelo Leonhart:

Originally posted by Zeikar:

I can't help you must be doing something wrong and there is too much of a language barrier to explain.

Sorry to bother dude, but can you confirm if I did it right?
http://prntscr.com/p33ac4

I don't use Aspect Ratio
I don't use FXAA
Just use
The Setup Tech and Magnify Tech ones

[Zeikar]

Originally posted by Paul:

Is this community full of dinguses who don't understand how aspect ratios work?

This is not a fix. All it does is stretch the image, making everything look unnaturally wide, which you can already do through your video card drivers. The game assets were rendered in 4:3 and that is how the game was meant to be viewed. You can't convert it into true widescreen.

Hey man the 2013 version stretches itself on my machine and look I'm not the only one who did something like this:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=665517922

[Leonhart]

Originally posted by Zeikar:

Originally posted by Angelo Leonhart:

Sorry to bother dude, but can you confirm if I did it right?
http://prntscr.com/p33ac4

I don't use aspectratio.fx

What are the one you use? Because I downloaded magnify but there weren't any Magnify options
By the way, if it helps, I plan on playing at 1600x900 (the window size, in the case)

[Zeikar]

Originally posted by Angelo Leonhart:

Originally posted by Zeikar:

I don't use aspectratio.fx

What are the one you use? Because I downloaded magnify but there weren't any Magnify options

Just use
The Setup Tech and Magnify Tech ones

Magnify is from an older version of ReShade you change its options by editing BasicFX.cfg in the reshade-shaders\Shaders\Reshade folder.

You would need different values for 1600x900

Read the OP please

I stated the info about this already in the OP