How to stop scaling/stretched display in fullscreen mode?

[Nellei]

I'm on a Surface Pro 6, 2736 x 1824 (3:2), Intel® Core™ 8th Gen i5-8250U or i7-8650U5, Intel UHD Graphics 620.

I have to play Rocket League on 1280x720 (16:9) resolution otherwise I get input lag and fps drops.

When I play in fullscreen with this resolution the game looks squished and it's bothering me. When I go to borderless or windowed then the game looks normal, but those two modes add input lag.

Below I've added an image of what I mean.

https://files.catbox.moe/9k4aya.png

I've tried a lot of solutions online that did not work. I've looked into windows settings and could not find any setting that disabled aspect ratio scaling. I tried changing my computer's resolution to 1280x720 but the game still stretches in fullscreen. I've changed rocketleague.exe comptaibility settings, dsabled full screen optimizations, toggled Program DPI and Override high scale DPI scaling behaviour. I'm starting to think that this has to do with rocket league itself.

Please help, I just want to play the game in normal aspect ratio without everything looking all wonky. Is there any solution to this?

[Toothbrush Cheapwood]

Hello man.. from whatvI understand, you basicly need tobupgrad your gear somehow...

[Kyle]

So, from what I understand, your screen aspect ratio is 3:2, but the game aspect ratio is set to 16:9 since you use 720p resolution. The game tries to "fill" the whole screen and so it's stretched out. Did you try to go in the iGPU control panel? Maybe there is an option that let's you use black bars so it scales the game correctly. Let me know if you tried.

[Nellei]

Originally posted by Sacred Toothbrush:

Hello man.. from whatvI understand, you basicly need tobupgrad your gear somehow...

You understood wrong

[Nellei]

Originally posted by Kyle:

So, from what I understand, your screen aspect ratio is 3:2, but the game aspect ratio is set to 16:9 since you use 720p resolution. The game tries to "fill" the whole screen and so it's stretched out. Did you try to go in the iGPU control panel? Maybe there is an option that let's you use black bars so it scales the game correctly. Let me know if you tried.

Yes I did try that there's a "maintain aspect ratio" setting but it does nothing.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by Nellei:

Originally posted by Kyle:

So, from what I understand, your screen aspect ratio is 3:2, but the game aspect ratio is set to 16:9 since you use 720p resolution. The game tries to "fill" the whole screen and so it's stretched out. Did you try to go in the iGPU control panel? Maybe there is an option that let's you use black bars so it scales the game correctly. Let me know if you tried.

Yes I did try that there's a "maintain aspect ratio" setting but it does nothing.

Hmm... Do you have the newest Intel drivers? I'm really wondering why in borderless mode it looks normal. Did you try to play the game on another display like an external monitor or TV?

[Lurd]

Originally posted by Nellei:

Originally posted by Sacred Toothbrush:

Hello man.. from whatvI understand, you basicly need tobupgrad your gear somehow...

You understood wrong

I mean he was having a stroke anyway

[Nellei]

Originally posted by Kyle:

Originally posted by Nellei:

Yes I did try that there's a "maintain aspect ratio" setting but it does nothing.

Hmm... Do you have the newest Intel drivers? I'm really wondering why in borderless mode it looks normal. Did you try to play the game on another display like an external monitor or TV?

I installed an updater driver or something and it said that everything was up to date.

The image I posted may be misleading, the picture I took of rocket league in borderless is not taking up the full screen. Rather it's this tiny little box in the middle of my screen, like the window is literally 1280x720.

Unfortunately I have no external monitor. I have a TV but I'm not sure how I would connect it to my computer as it doesn't have any hdmi ports. If this is relevant I used to play rocket league on the switch and connected the switch to my TV and the game looked fine last time I remember with no weird aspect ratio changes or stretched image.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by Zelda from the video game Zelda:

Originally posted by Nellei:

You understood wrong

I mean he was having a stroke anyway

This comment just made me laugh.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by Nellei:

Originally posted by Kyle:

Hmm... Do you have the newest Intel drivers? I'm really wondering why in borderless mode it looks normal. Did you try to play the game on another display like an external monitor or TV?

I installed an updater driver or something and it said that everything was up to date.

The image I posted may be misleading, the picture I took of rocket league in borderless is not taking up the full screen. Rather it's this tiny little box in the middle of my screen, like the window is literally 1280x720.

Unfortunately I have no external monitor. I have a TV but I'm not sure how I would connect it to my computer as it doesn't have any hdmi ports. If this is relevant I used to play rocket league on the switch and connected the switch to my TV and the game looked fine last time I remember with no weird aspect ratio changes or stretched image.

Ok... So I am no expert, but I think it's just because your monitor has a very rare aspect ratio, 3:2. If you had a 1920x1080 display and then switch to 1280x720, it would fit perfectly because these are both 16:9 resolutions. Did you try to use 1080p as the main resolution in Rocket League, but then change the render method to high performance? It will look blurry and it should lower the number of pixels despite the 1080p resolution, resulting so in better performance. Another thing you can try is to make a custom resolution. 2736 x 1824 is 3:2, what if you could make this in half, 1368x912 which is still 3:2, fitting on your screen and also offering better performance in game.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000056144/graphics/legacy-graphics.html