Option to Adjust UI "Safe Zone"?

[CoalBerner]

So I know when I first installed the game it gives you the option to adjust your game brightness (Gamma in Doom) and the Screen Safe Zone (how far the UI can be placed on your screen), however after some recent update (I haven't played for a few months and I know that during the Thanksgiving or Chrismas sale just about all games on Steam released mini-patchs that didn't really do much) the UI in my game is completely botched. Theirs now solid black boxes at the top and bottom of my game screen while in the Campaign, causing the UI to be broken.

Changing the Aspect Ratio does not fix this, and I cannot find any option to adjust the safe zone (even though the Gamma setting can freely be accessed). So where do I find this option?

I don't see it under the Game, Video or Advanced tabs under the setting option. If it called something obscure?

Thanks for any help given!

[rawWwRrr]

Safe zone? You mean the Field of View?

That wouldn't fix the black bars. That's strictly aspect ratio and resolution.

[CoalBerner]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Safe zone? You mean the Field of View?

That wouldn't fix the black bars. That's strictly aspect ratio and resolution.

No, the safe zone. That's not even related to the FoV. It's one of the only two things that almost all PC games ask when you first start them up on a new machine.

This thing:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Screen+safe+zone&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=Wq3w4zbGu5ImGM%253A%252CGpMTA3dAra_SfM%252C_&usg=__zIK6rZjQHWP2fVi5pdYxAl0PhQU%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjx9emEuv7YAhVF62MKHYR8CzUQ9QEIUjAF#imgrc=Wq3w4zbGu5ImGM:

I know Doom asks (I remember i doing so) when you first play it on a new machine install. Problem is I can't find the option manually after that.

[Gin]

I've never been prompted to adjust a "safe zone" ?!

[CoalBerner]

Originally posted by Gin:

I've never been prompted to adjust a "safe zone" ?!

Odd, I get it just about everytime I install the game on a new OS install. That along with the Brightness/Gamma setting.

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by Daragoth:

Originally posted by Gin:

I've never been prompted to adjust a "safe zone" ?!

Odd, I get it just about everytime I install the game on a new OS install. That along with the Brightness/Gamma setting.

I've never seen that option in Doom...

There have been no updates to Doom in the last several months either...

I think the black bars are either the Cinematic rendering option, or you have the wrong aspect ratio set.

As to "almost all games" asking about safe zones...I have over 250 games on Steam, a fair amount of them are AAA titles from the last decade.

I have never, ever, not once, ever seen that option. It's an option designed for TVs where you may experience overscan, and is almost always seen on consoles, but basically never on PC, mainly because GPUs can scale output to eliminate overscan right in drivers.

[CoalBerner]

I've seen it on plenty of AAA titles on the PC platform. A few of the AC games have done it, Titanfall 2 (and 1) did and those are just to name a few.

And my Aspect ratio is correct, that's not the problem. Also the "Safe Zone" is for UI scaling, not for overall game resolution. That's the major misconception about it. And all games have some form of UI (HUD, subtitles and so on).

Yes, some games do lock the UI based on resolution, but not all of them. Practicly any game that is a PC Port (or some sort of port in general) does not lock that UI to the resolution. But any game that is PC first (which almost all AAA games move from console to a PC port) will have a Safe Zone option because it was ported over from a console version.

And yes, there was big thing that happened with more then half of the games on Steam where they released Micro-updates. Usually no bigger then 5 MBs, if even that.

[Salamand3r-]

Those weren't game updates, they were updates to Steam files in then game directory. I'm not even sure what that has to do with anything. Doom never had that option, ever.

And again, if AC and Titanfall 2 had it, again, that's an example of a console-centric feature. Most games do not "move from console to PC" - aside from major casual franchises, most are simultaneously developed with specialized UI and design teams for each platform.

2 games is not "most" games, and yes the reason is still for overscan. Do some reading on the Google search you linked earlier.

I ran first time setup on about a hundred games in the last two weeks thanks to moving everything to a new SSD array, and not a single one asked that question. Unlike you, I don't keep a private profile, so you can see what games I have direct experience with. Even total console ports like Bayonetta and DmC don't have that option.

Did you check rendering mode? Is it in cinematic?