Weird bug with black bar at right edge of screen

[gargfeld]

Hi,

I'm having this weird bug where sometimes there appears a black bar on the right side of my screen. The bug appears a lot of the times when i press pause or get out of a menu when harvesting stuff like watchers.

I'm running an RX 6700 XT and also have crashes once in a while. I saw other people having crash issues with this gpu, but not with the black bar... Does anyone else have this issue? Or someone have a fix?

Here is a link to screenshots to illustrate my issue: https://imgur.com/a/5xntLEq

[ESOS]

Wow that's a huge solid black bar on your screen.
Yeah I think this game isn't optimize for AMD GPU.

[Vlad]

Originally posted by gargfeld:

Hi,

I'm having this weird bug where sometimes there appears a black bar on the right side of my screen. The bug appears a lot of the times when i press pause or get out of a menu when harvesting stuff like watchers.

I'm running an RX 6700 XT and also have crashes once in a while. I saw other people having crash issues with this gpu, but not with the black bar... Does anyone else have this issue? Or someone have a fix?

Here is a link to screenshots to illustrate my issue: https://imgur.com/a/5xntLEq

What screen mode are you using (borderless fullscreen, exclusive fullscreen)? If you are playing in borderless fullscreen mode, could this be influenced by the Windows 10 notification sidebar?
Try to force the 16:9 aspect ratio if you used Auto.
Are you using automatic resolution adjustments or have you set the percentage manually? In your screenshots, I noticed a black border that occurs when you play not at 100% resolution. Perhaps this is the problem.

[gargfeld]

Originally posted by Vlad:

What screen mode are you using (borderless fullscreen, exclusive fullscreen)? If you are playing in borderless fullscreen mode, could this be influenced by the Windows 10 notification sidebar?
Try to force the 16:9 aspect ratio if you used Auto.
Are you using automatic resolution adjustments or have you set the percentage manually? In your screenshots, I noticed a black border that occurs when you play not at 100% resolution. Perhaps this is the problem.

I was using normal fullscreen mode. I tried switching between screen modes, but the black bar kept appearing. Even with forced 16:9 aspect ratio manually set on 4k resolution. I don't think it has something to do with the Windows 10 notification bar, as my HUD appears over the black bars...

What surprised me is that the black bar does not appear (in the time i tested it) when i play it on 1440p or some other lower resolution.

[Vlad]

Originally posted by gargfeld:

What surprised me is that the black bar does not appear (in the time i tested it) when i play it on 1440p or some other lower resolution.

Are you using the Adaptive Performance option (display settings) in your game, which automatically lowers the resolution to maintain target frame rate?
As I already wrote, according to my personal observations, a black border appears when the render scale is less than 100%.

[gargfeld]

Originally posted by Vlad:

Are you using the Adaptive Performance option (display settings) in your game, which automatically lowers the resolution to maintain target frame rate?
As I already wrote, according to my personal observations, a black border appears when the render scale is less than 100%.

This seems to have solved the problem with the black bars, thank you! There's just this problem where my game crashes a lot more often with adaptive performance disabled... Don't see any fixes for that too in the forums. Thanks anyway!

[Vlad]

Originally posted by gargfeld:

There's just this problem where my game crashes a lot more often with adaptive performance disabled... Don't see any fixes for that too in the forums.

What frame rate is your goal (4K, 60)?
Try to select the "safe" settings and play for a while to see if the game will crash. For example, 1080p, 30fps (DISPLAY SETTINGS -> FPS limit) and minimum graphics quality settings. If there are no crashes, then you have chosen a screen resolution or frame rate that is too high for your system.
Of course, there are possible reasons that do not depend on your system or you.