How to play in 4:3 STRETCHED windowed?

[ajsxngh]

Hello,

I am wanting to take CS:GO to another level and try out 4:3 as some recommend it. However my problem is that I use a 40" 4K TV as a monitor. So basically my primary resolution for CS:GO is 2560x1440 16:9 WINDOWED. If I go fullscreen then the game window will be to big and will be harder to spot enemies.

Is it possible to play 4:3 stretched on windowed?

[frisky]

Enemies are the same size regardless of your resolution, unless you use stretched/scaling.

Your best bet is to google "<video card> how to 4:3 csgo stretched"; you'll have to edit your scaling properties in your GPU's control panel.

[munt]

I would guess no

[munt]

You may be able to set your res to ultra widescreen and allow the sides of your monitor to overflow then switch csgo to windowed 4:3. Might work?

[ajsxngh]

Originally posted by frisky:

Enemies are the same size regardless of your resolution, unless you use stretched/scaling.

Your best bet is to google "<video card> how to 4:3 csgo stretched"; you'll have to edit your scaling properties in your GPU's control panel.

That helped, thank you... However is there a way to make it so that my desktop stays at 3840x2160 and my CS game remains at 4:3 Stretched Windowed?

[ajsxngh]

bump.

[TehSpoopyKitteh]

Originally posted by Big Smoke:

Originally posted by frisky:

Enemies are the same size regardless of your resolution, unless you use stretched/scaling.

Your best bet is to google "<video card> how to 4:3 csgo stretched"; you'll have to edit your scaling properties in your GPU's control panel.

That helped, thank you... However is there a way to make it so that my desktop stays at 3840x2160 and my CS game remains at 4:3 Stretched Windowed?

Several things...first of all, why do you want your display stretched out to a 4x3 aspect ratio resolution if your monitor is 16x9 or 16x10? All you wil be doing is stretching the 4x3 image on the screen. You won't gain any field of view, you will not gain any advantage becasuse simply stretching the image on the monitor will not make the other player's hitboxes larger or smaller.

Big querstion...is you monitor a square or a rectangle in shape? If it is mostly square shaped and not at all wide like a standard rectangle, then it is either going to use a 4:3 or a 4;5 aspect ratio.

The other factor in this is that you may have to set up your computer to do what you want it to do. If you are not an English speaker, you can frined me and I will use a translator app to communicate with you. I am willing to help you in any way I can...Just keep in mind that I may not get back to you right away.

[ajsxngh]

I mean... It's widescreen and.... I thought it was obvious I speak English...

[TehSpoopyKitteh]

Originally posted by Big Smoke:

I mean... It's widescreen and.... I thought it was obvious I speak English...

Ah..I understand. Kinda hard to tell for me in text without facial expressions to key off from ;-)

Anyway you are going to have to set your desktop's resolution to your monitor's native reolution..If you are running Windows Vista, 7, 8 ,8.1, or 10, you need to right click and use the right mouse button to click on the background photo of the destop....and left click on "Display Settings"..Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1 use a slider to change your reesolution....Windows 10 (which I have a gut feeling is what you are using) currently (who know what change Micorsoft will make to their Gui next Windows 10 update lol) looks like the screenshot linked below:

http://i.imgur.com/mDdWRjL.png

There is a dropdown box that says "Resolution"...and another that says "Orientation"..The widescrren monitor and resolutions will always be landscaper oriented in Windows 10...and depending on your monitor, you could either have a 16x9 or a 16x10 aspect ratio....more on that in a moment.

In order for me to help you, I simply need to know the manufacturer and model nukmber of your PC's monitor do you have that? That kind of inforation helps out A LOT in getting you where you want to go.

[ajsxngh]

SAMSUNG UE40KU6400U

[TehSpoopyKitteh]

Originally posted by Big Smoke:

SAMSUNG UE40KU6400U

Ah...a UHD tv....I would recommend turning on game mode and using the HDMI cable to hook up the video card to the TV set. VGA cables are analog...and the VGA input on most TV's only go up to 1024x768...or 1280x1024.

If you have a NAVIDIA chipset graphics card user...go to NVIDIA's control pannel and use these settings:

http://i.imgur.com/4YbANRu.png

As for AMD or Intel HD control pannels..I am not sure...

If you want to figure out the aspec ratios of resolutions, you could use an Aspect Ratio Calculator to figure them out.

This site is quite useful
http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/aspect_ratio/

On the left we have your resolution, on the right we have the desired resolution...change the width or the height of the ones to the left, and the x and y resolutions in that field will change accordingly.

[ajsxngh]

I use the PC mode with HDMI. I have an NVIDIA GTX 1080 FTW. Will the instructions listed help me play my game at 4:3 stretched while my desktop remains at a 16:9 3840x2160?

[TehSpoopyKitteh]

You get no advantages while playing with a 4:3 resolution aspect ratio...with a 16:9 monitor. You will have to use those instructions and then set the game to use a widescreen resolution to make the image look normal. Once again the pixels on the screen DO NOT affect hitbox geometry....they only affect how things look. With that TV set, I would definitely just use 2560x1440 stretched to 16:9 since the image will look normal.

This is all that stretching a 4:3 resolution to 16:9 does...it makes the image all smushed if you stretch a 4:3 resolution to a 16:9 widescreen...

https://www.soundandvision.com/images/styles/600_wide/public/110406-Stretch.jpg?itok=sbVU0ny1

[DocCovington]

Originally posted by Big Smoke:

How to play in 4:3 STRETCHED windowed?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=874527064

[TehSpoopyKitteh]

Originally posted by DocCovington:

Originally posted by Big Smoke:

How to play in 4:3 STRETCHED windowed?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=874527064

Thank you! :-)

[DocCovington]

Originally posted by Sir Edmund Allenby:

Thank you! :-)

You're welcome.