Civ 5 loading screen won't fill the page.

[Imperator Trump]

Clues in the title really and it's not a big issue but ever since i've upped my resolution to 1080p i've had this annoying problem on the loading screen where the image will not fill the screen. I know this is a minor issue but please comment if you have a fix.

[Damsteri]

No (easy) fix, images are fixed size nd they are not scaled (good thing actually). There is only one copy of each image which is used for all resolutions. Visually better option would have to had at least two version of each image, but that would have made the game installation files much larger.

I have a 2560x1600 resolution screen, so all of those "background" images have Wide black borders around them.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=419074920
I think it's not a problem, because I usually play the game more than I look the loading screen or menus and the game works nicely with larger screen.

[Imperator Trump]

yeah like I said I can deal with it but I used to run the game on 1024 x 768 and it would fill the screen, I figured that when I turned up the resolution (1920 x 1080 @ 59hz) that it would display an image that would fill the screen. And my friends has the same sized monitor and is running in 1080p and hes look normal.

[Damsteri]

That sounds like you have an overscan/underscan issue. Do you have black borders while playing too? Let me quess, you are using screen which is connected by HDMI cable? Maybe also a AMD graphics card?

AMD has little bit strange default setting of 10% underscan when TV is detected (usually connected using HDMI). They assume that TV uses 10% overscan, so they compensate each others. Result is a little bit blurry image which is at right size (normal users doesn't recognize). However, some TVs recognize that video is coming from a PC and drop overscan to 0% resultin black bars or other device behind the HDMI is not TV at all.. but a computer monitor.

You could check your underscan value from your graphics card's drivers (in AMD case it can be found in My Digital Flat-Panels / Scaling Options). Set underscan to 0% from there. Then you need to check settings in your TV/monitor (using onscreen menus) and set overscan to 0% to get the best result.

[Imperator Trump]

Thanks for the suggestion of what to try. And yes I am using an AMD card with a HDMI cable through my monitor. I did have black borders around my screen for everything but I then went into Catalyst control and adjusted my settings and it has been fine ever since. When playing the game it is usually fine it's just the loading screens. Like I saqid it's not a huge issue seen as it's just the loading screens but really I like to look at the civ 5 loading screens and read whats on them and with the current issue It's a bit hard to do. It only happens with CIV 5 and ever since I upped my resolution to 1080p. Which TBH is tsrange becuse that's the game's and my monitor's native resolution.

[Damsteri]

Well, Civ V is one odd game. It doesn't use regular fullscreen, it has somekind of borderless window or something like that. For example, usually changing windows resolution changes the game resolution, but that doesn't work for Civ V correctly.

I noticed Civ V fullscreen problems back 2010/2011 when I had a crossfire setup, i.e. two AMD graphics cards working together. Usually crossfire works only in fullscreen and not in windowed mode, but initially crossfire didn't work in Civ V fullscreen mode and I very bad framerates despite two very prowerful graphics cards. Eventually they fixed the crossfire issue. They have made the game work in some unusual manner and your problem might be related how the game is done.

[Imperator Trump]

Yeah Civ has always been a bit odd with AMD cards. But then again that is the main downside about AMD in comparison to Nvidia. They are not as optimized an their counterparts. I once bought metro 2033 on steam and had like 5 FPS even on the loading screen and it would not change depending on the graphical settings. I figured it out and fixed it but it turns out that it only happens with AMD cards. Must be because there are so many different cards by AMD in comparison to Nvidia who chose to just have a short selection....