How to eleminate letterbox/black bars from some games ?

[UIE First Citizen]

So I have this problem that i get black bars.
I tried using NCP but it doesn't help.
Is there any way to get rid of it.
It ruins my gaming experiences, when i only see game on 2/3 of my screen.
Is there a way to fix this ?

[76561198188152325]

change the game resolution to match your monitor's aspect ratio

[UIE First Citizen]

Originally posted by ஜ Lord ✴ Revan ஜ:

change the game resolution to match your monitor's aspect ratio

I always have.
When i have it for example 1280x720 there are no black bars.
But when i change resolution to 1280x1024 to my native resolution, i get letterbox i want to get rid of it.

[Cathulhu]

What monitor do you have?

[tmwfte]

Which game? The letterboxing may have been a stylistic decision on the part of the devs.

[Snapjak]

1280x720 is a 16:9 resolution.
1280x1024 is a 4:3 resolution.

They are not the same and you will get black bars or stretched video.

[76561198188152325]

seriously, no offense to 4:3, get a new monitor

[UIE First Citizen]

Originally posted by ஜ Lord ✴ Revan ஜ:

seriously, no offense to 4:3, get a new monitor

I am using it for 9 years now, working well so far.
"Better" monitor requires better graphic card and i have no desire to buy a new one, plus i tried 16:9 and i do not like them.

Originally posted by Snapjak:

1280x720 is a 16:9 resolution.
1280x1024 is a 4:3 resolution.

They are not the same and you will get black bars or stretched video.

1280x1024 is 5:4 not 4:3. 4:3 is 1280x 960
The whole point is not to get black bars when using different resolution.
I do not have issue when play tomb raider or thief.
I have this when playing dragon dogma.
I want to fix this, it ruins my gaming experience.

[Cathulhu]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

What monitor do you have?

[Snapjak]

Originally posted by UIE First Citizen:

Originally posted by ஜ Lord ✴ Revan ஜ:

seriously, no offense to 4:3, get a new monitor

I am using it for 9 years now, working well so far.
"Better" monitor requires better graphic card and i have no desire to buy a new one, plus i tried 16:9 and i do not like them.

Originally posted by Snapjak:

1280x720 is a 16:9 resolution.
1280x1024 is a 4:3 resolution.

They are not the same and you will get black bars or stretched video.

1280x1024 is 5:4 not 4:3. 4:3 is 1280x 960
The whole point is not to get black bars when using different resolution.
I do not have issue when play tomb raider or thief.
I have this when playing dragon dogma.
I want to fix this, it ruins my gaming experience.

You're right. My bad. 5:4. Still it's the same thing though. Not correct AR.

It might be a specific thing with that game, in which case you should ask in it's forum.

[FrostLord32]

Originally posted by UIE First Citizen:

So I have this problem that i get black bars.
I tried using NCP but it doesn't help.
Is there any way to get rid of it.
It ruins my gaming experiences, when i only see game on 2/3 of my screen.
Is there a way to fix this ?

I figured out a way to remove the letterbox in games and if this worked for me, It might work for you so listen up (This only works for NVIDIA Users only and I am not sure for AMD users but you can try to figure out like i did but in your AMD Control Panel. Sorry If Its not enough help)

Right-Click on your desktop and click nvidia control panel, Go to Display and find "Adjust desktop size and position" then on the Scaling tab, look down and go to "Perform scaling on:" and choose your GPU instead of Display. And your letterbox problem should probably be fixed now on most resolutions

(and if that didnt work then it might be something else)

[Kargor]

You can't "fix" the letterboxing unless the game offers a suitable resolution.

If you're displaying a 16:9 image on a 4:3 (or 5:4, doesn't matter) monitor, there's just not enough image to fill the top and bottom areas; hence the black bars.

Any fix other than the game actually providing a 4:3 image can only do one of two things:

a) it can just make the image larger until the black bars are gone. The downside of this: because the image also gets wider, you will loose the image on the left and right because it doesn't fit onto the monitor anymore.

b) it can keep thw width of the image, and just make it higher. This will also remove the black bars, and not cut off image on the left/right so you can still see everything. So what's the problem now? The problem is that the image is just getting stretched -- which means it gets distorted: what used to be a circle in the original image is now an ellipse.