Incorrect Scaling from 3440x1440 to 1080p TV

[Saddler08]

When using the Steam Link my games automatically go into a windowed mode with black bars. The only game that streamed and scaled perfectly, for some reason, was Sonic Generations.

Anyone else having scaling issues? Any tips?

[trayle]

The Max HDMI output resolution Steam Link supports is 1080p so running games at a higher resolution than that requires some sort of conversion.

3440 x 1440 is a much different height and width aspect ratio (43:18) than 1080p which is 1920 x 1080 pixels (16:9).


You might as well try setting your game resolution to 1920 x 1080 to avoid scaling artifacts.

[Tucu]

Originally posted by trayle:

The Max HDMI output resolution Steam Link supports is 1080p so running games at a higher resolution than that requires some sort of conversion.

3440 x 1440 is a much different height and width aspect ratio (43:18) than 1080p which is 1920 x 1080 pixels (16:9).


You might as well try setting your game resolution to 1920 x 1080 to avoid scaling artifacts.

There is a resolution setting in the Link. Try changing it from Desktop to 1080p (or something like that) and see if it behaves better in your setup.

[Saddler08]

I appreciate the tips guys! So far the resolution settting in the link is set at 1080p. I think it's my ultrawide that's causing issues. My games still have black bars on the top and arent formatting to 1080p 16:9 to my TV.
Maybe this will be something that gets fixed later in a software update. Overall, disappointed.

[JeneralBen]

My 2560x1600 display gets black bars on the sides of Fallout 4 when streaming.

[Tucu]

Have you set the resolution inside the game to 1920x1080? Steam In-Home Streaming will not change this game setting but it will try to scale the video to the client resolution (1080p in the case of the Steam Link).

[Saddler08]

Guess I was able to finally get the 1080p settings to stick for fallout 4. It's streaming perfect to my tv now.
I'll chock that up to user error I guess. Who knows

[Tucu]

Originally posted by Saddler08:

Guess I was able to finally get the 1080p settings to stick for fallout 4. It's streaming perfect to my tv now.
I'll chock that up to user error I guess. Who knows

Glad you fixed it. The resolution settings can be confusing (you can have one resolution in the Link, another when streaming Big Picture mode and another for the game). I guess confusion is the price of flexibility

[Maksimus]

Originally posted by Saddler08:

Guess I was able to finally get the 1080p settings to stick for fallout 4. It's streaming perfect to my tv now.
I'll chock that up to user error I guess. Who knows

Do you mind telling me how you got it to Work? I have a 3440x1440 monitor and tried everything. Setting steam link resolution and game resolutio. Do you mind sharing your settings thanks

[Saddler08]

The only game that I had issues with (resolution wise) was fallout 4. I had to make sure all the settings were correct in the steam link+client(which you already said you fixed).
Last thing you have to do is make sure the resolution is set to 1080p in the launcher that pops up for fallout 4.
When I made sure it was going to 1080 in there, the settings streamed over to my tv.

Hope it helps.

[hyp36rmax]

Best solution is to just change the resolution in game when you're streaming to 1080P. My main computer is running a 4K setup streaming into my Link into our bedroom. I have a Crossfire AMD VAPOR-X R9 290X 8GB GPU's for some 4K loving, however for those that do not know, Steam Big Picture will disable Crossfire/SLI and stream my native 4k resolution downscaled to 1080P with one GPU. Not a very fun experience.

My temperorary fix until Valve does something about it is to just change the game resolution to 1080P since it won't stream above that resolution anyways. Which will also put much less of a load on my main PC with the advantage of a higher quality stream and overal better experience.

When i'm done streaming i would just change the resolution back to my native. No big deal.

[Maksimus]

I managed to get it to work. Just set my desktop to 1080 and game to 1080 and works. Thanks was having a special day i think. However now my steam controller has stoped working none of the buttons work not even the steam button. This seems like a fallout4 issue all other gams i tried work very well