AC doesn't scale properly during gameplay

[ustaritz]

[EDIT]
So this morning after a while of not playing at all, i started AC again and went for a lap with the new cars, first race, i was AMAZED to see that for once AC was running in full screen. then when i go to the options menu, the resolution is set to something ridiculous like 300*200. Mmmm okay. I try putting the resolution back to what i need to run it smooth, something like 1440*900 and it goes back to doing the same stupid thing. Black borders all around and a gameplay windows as large as my iphone.
Which is quite uncomfortable to play as you would imagine. Is there still no way i can launch this game in a smaller resolution than my native res without having to play in tinier and tinier windows ? As i already said in the post i made a long time ago below. Fullscreen or not doesn't make any difference.
I just don't understand how complicated this can be while literally any other game i have just does that properly.

_____________________________________





When i started playing i think it was some time before the update that added the 599XX, so, some time ago. I was able to run the game in 1080p but now even with no AI and slighlty lower graphic settings the game can't run in 1080p anymore. I don't mind playing in smaller res i do it all the time. But the problem is, when in actual gameplay, the game doesn't rescale the picture if it has a lower res, so when i play in 1440*900 for instance, i get black borders all around the picture. Since i'm on a 17" screen it's really too small to play comfortably. I've tried fullscreen rendering on and off and it doesn't make a diffrence. Either i get black borders, or i get a small window, which can't be rescaled.

I saw that it had something to do with an automatic rescale option in the Nvidia control settings, which is not available because image size and scale is handled by the Intel HD Graphics drivers, and on this panel i can't change it.
So then i used a trick someone posted on another website.
Put the desktop res to desired rendering res, then enable full scale adjustment in the windows control panel, then switch back to full res, and launch the game. Tried rendering with the res i had tried and it still gave black borders.

This is the only game that ever did that particular thing. There has to be something to just make the game run in fullscreen regardless of res ?

[yusupov]

can't you simply try an actual 16:9 resolution? i'm wondering if thats partially a monitor issue; it sounds like youve got quite a bit more knowledge on the subject, but why not 1366x768 or whatever it is? realize thats technically inferior to 1440x900...

whatever the case, highly suggest you go to the official forums & post the problem, devs almsot never respond here.

[ustaritz]

Yes i think 720p works in fullscreen, i could probably play in 720, but in terms of performance a res between 1440 and 1600 would be okay. 720p would sure work fine with top fps but on a 17" 1080p screen 720p is a bit blurry as you would imagine. It's not that much of a problem for racing but still.

[yusupov]

i assume you also know abotu setting custom resolutions via nvidia cp, might funkify the desktop but should work fine in-game. so you could get a 16:9 900p resolution for example, if there isnt one by default (sorry, ive been using 1920x1080p for many years, so i dont know much about other resolutions)

[yusupov]

oh & re the custom res, you can just accept it once then go back to native resolution, & the resolution will appear as an option in most games including AC. i know b/c i sometimes upscale to 2560x1440p, but my monitor doesnt support it & i dont notice a huge difference in most games.

[ustaritz]

It's just a bit odd. Cause on pretty much every game i've played, my computer is usually just a tad under the average/ideal requirements, so i generalyl run games with resolution a bit smaller. In Arma 3 for instance i use 83% res. Something like 1660*900 or i dunno. But i'm generally using a res about 15 to 20% smaller which is really not much and usually gives a ton more fps. And when i do that, the games stays in fullscreen, or in some cases with dodgy games, i need to start fixing stuff so it doesn't go into windowed mode. But it always works at some point. But this black border thing i've never seen that before.

[ustaritz]

Originally posted by mr munkee:

You mentioned intel HD graphics, are you sure the game isn't running on that instead of your nvidia gpu?

Don't think so, otherwise it wouldn't even run, it's a gpu integrated with the processor or motherboard and it's not meant to play games at all it just handles display functionalities and not rendering.

[Z.Ibrahimovic]

" image size and scale is handled by the Intel HD Graphics drivers"

As described it runs on your intel hd gpu. Make sure you put your nvidia as primary device also in Windows. Probably Windows downloaded new drivers and made a mess of your settings.
I can run AC on my tablet flawless in medium / high settings on an Intel hd 4000.

You can also try to reset your screen. Probably it offers settings on how to react on non-native resolutions like to stretch to fill the screen or to add black or white bars around.

[ustaritz]

Originally posted by Z.Ibrahimovic:

" image size and scale is handled by the Intel HD Graphics drivers"

As described it runs on your intel hd gpu. ...
.

Actually it's not exactly that. What happens is, i can force any game to use the Nvidia GPU and it's settings if i want. And the majority of cases, the games will pick my Nvidia card straight away. Sometimes, mostly with indie games, i need to make sure it's set up correctly. ( The launcher let's you pick a gpu, and sometimes it only shows Intel, but i can still force it to Nvidia ) But it's still really rare. What happens with the scaling options is that on my kind of system which is a laptop, they include both Nvidia and Intel drivers, i have no idea what's the point of this, but they just share options. So Nvidia Control Panel doesn't have the scaling option but has all the 3d settings. Intel has like 5 or 6 different options but it's really pointless. I don't know if i can get rid of it or bypass it completely. I does make a serious good job at making stuff sound better with it's audio drivers. But since i'm always on heaphones or monitoring systems i don't need that.

[ustaritz]

Still haven't found a way to fix this. Just upping this thread in case someone else had a clue :(

[ABERN]

I have a GTX 760. I typically run 1920x1089 (16:9) but I did try 1600:900. At first I did have the black borders. But then I went to the nVidia CP and then to Adjust Desktop Size and Position. I changed the settings there from Aspect Ratio to Full Screen.

Then I went back to AC and the screen was stretched to fill the entire screen. I probably would have stayed in this resolution (though I get 70 frames with a full grid, myself in the back, on 1920), but the apps I want displayed are too big for my liking.

I wonder why there's no way to shrink the app sizes, unless I'm missing something.

Alan

[ustaritz]

Yes i know about, and the issue at this point is that i run a laptop with the Intel HD Graphics integrated gpu, it handles scaling and such so i don't have access to these options in the Nvidia Panel. And, for some reason, the Intel panel won't let me change that setting. I can't uninstall this, and Ac is already forced to run on my Nvidia Gpu. The control panel of Nvidia won't let me change the scaling. that's stupid since all games are run by it..

[ustaritz]

I even tried to just change my screen res to what i wanted before launching the game. But when it goes into rendering it still gives black border. Why can't it just stretch i've never seen that.

[JackHorner]

I get the blacl boarder with ths game sometimes. I am running a 30 inch dell monitor at 2560x1600 resolution. That res was too high for my gtx680 to handle to I lowered it, still by factors of 1920x1080, everything in between will not fit my monitor properly... anyway I lowered it and started getting the black borders... make sure you go into nvidia control panel and look "adjust desktop size and position" in there make sure you check the box that says full screen. then make try different settings in assetto corsa. Check / ubckeck full screen in AC and so on. If you still cant get it to work see if you can fullscreen the game by messing with your actual monitor settings... the ones you pull up by pressing a button on the monitor.. good luck hope this helped a little.

[ustaritz]

As someone suggested earlier i tried using another 16.9 res and 720p and it wasn't even black border, i just had a small window stuck in a corner of the screen on top of the desktop, but for some reason it didn't have borders like a window i couldn't move it or anything.

[ustaritz]

Originally posted by Tactical Snail:

Have you tried using the steam game launch options ?

Game launch options can be used to change game settings before running the game. Launch options allow the user to supercede internal settings of the game. This is an effective means to recover from incompatible video settings and well as troubleshooting a wide range of issues.
This topic covers setting game launch options from Steam's Library. Launch options may also be set by creating a game shortcut and Setting Steam Launch Options for the shortcut.

Set Launch Options
1.Right-click on the game title under the Library in Steam and select Properties.

2.Under the General tab click the Set launch options... button.
Enter the launch options you wish to apply (be sure to separate each code with a space) and click OK.

3.Close the game's Properties window and launch the game.

-fullscreen - Forces the engine to start in fullscreen mode.
-windowed or -sw - Forces the engine to start in windowed mode.
-16bpp or -32bpp - Forces the selected color mode (bit depth)
-w <width> - Forces the engine to start with resolution set to <width>.
-h <height> - Forces the engine to start with resolution set to <height>.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1040-JWMT-2947

The menu and the actual 3D rendering don't use the same settings. I'm not sure steam launch options will affect the actual engine. But i'll try. But i think it'll just affect the menu screen.