Any way to run the game in 4:3?

[Green Lion Antiques]

Really enjoyed my first play-through, trying out new game plus with the VHS filter you unlock. Just one small nitpick, I'd like to be able to try the game out on a real CRT but right now when I switch it over to my secondary monitor it's letter-boxed. Is there any known workaround for this?

[EddieK74]

Try to change the desktop resolution of your secondary monitor in NVIDIA Control Panel > Display to a 4:3 value before you launch the game.
How the game itself reacts to that I can´t tell; I have the PS version and there are no resolution options for me.
Good luck.

[Viper]

CRT monitor...Really. Are you trying to run it on a 386 to. Developers can only support very old school for so long.

[PRAET0R1AN™]

Reshade can let you simulate a 4:3 aspect ratio.

If you have an nvidia gpu you can also create a custom resolution, set the 4:3 resolution there and apply it.

800x600, 1280x960, 1600x1200 are 3 4:3 aspect ratio resolutions you can set.

But just bare in mind when you apply these, it will be uniform throughout Windows.

[Exciter]

Interesting idea, it will be so cool to play it on decent CRT. Post some pics or video, if you manage.

[Ricback2]

I believe this might be doable with Lossless Scaling.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/

[PRAET0R1AN™]

Originally posted by Ricback2:

I believe this might be doable with Lossless Scaling.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/

Nope, that won't do it, that's for giving more options for framegen on cards that doesn't natively support DLSS FG.

:edit:
Also for different upscaling formats.

It won't change aspect ratios.

[Forscythe]

Originally posted by Viper:

CRT monitor...Really. Are you trying to run it on a 386 to. Developers can only support very old school for so long.

What do you think CRT support means here exactly? The only thing required is allowing us to render in 4:3 aspect ratios, which plenty of modern games do. Why do guys like you always get so bent out of shape over people requesting basic features, simply because you have no use for them?

[Forscythe]

The game doesn't support 4:3 properly, even if you use a resolution like 1440x1080. And it doesn't go lower than 1024x768. You'll end up with letterboxing regardless. Honestly, I just got used to it on my monitor. The other option is to vertically stretch the geometry, which is

[PRAET0R1AN™]

Op have you tried editing the config of gameusersettins.ini in %localappdata%/silenthill2/saved/config.

There should be some commands you can edit related to last selected ingame resolution including desired screen resolution, with those values changed to a 4:3 aspect ratio screen resolution it should display correctly as long as you don't change anything in the options menu.

[Cap'n Crud]

Originally posted by PRAET0R1AN™:

If you have an nvidia gpu you can also create a custom resolution, set the 4:3 resolution there and apply it.

800x600, 1280x960, 1600x1200 are 3 4:3 aspect ratio resolutions you can set.

But just bare in mind when you apply these, it will be uniform throughout Windows.

Only if you set your desktop resolution to one of these. If you create them they should just show up as an option in game so you don't have to change your desktop resolution. Also 1920 x 1440 shows up in the display options anyway, at least on mine. Setting it to that will put it in 4:3 with a 1440p resolution.

[PRAET0R1AN™]

Originally posted by Fingler:

Originally posted by PRAET0R1AN™:

If you have an nvidia gpu you can also create a custom resolution, set the 4:3 resolution there and apply it.

800x600, 1280x960, 1600x1200 are 3 4:3 aspect ratio resolutions you can set.

But just bare in mind when you apply these, it will be uniform throughout Windows.

Only if you set your desktop resolution to one of these. If you create them they should just show up as an option in game so you don't have to change your desktop resolution. Also 1920 x 1440 shows up in the display options anyway, at least on mine. Setting it to that will put it in 4:3 with a 1440p resolution.

Yeah this is where setting a custom resolution through nvidia control panel would work too but that hinges on requiring an nvidia gpu to brute force that aspect ratio.

There's also a way of doing it through registry editor but I wouldn't recommend that imo.

Unless there's freeware open source applications that can brute force custom desktop resolutions too that he can use, but nvidia control panel is how I would do it.

[V I D A L]

Originally posted by Viper:

CRT monitor...Really. Are you trying to run it on a 386 to. Developers can only support very old school for so long.

CRT >>>>> OLED > LED > LCD

[AILAD]

It runs at a perfect 4:3 on my CRT.

I set the screen mode to borderless.

And by the way, CRT looks better than your average IPS.