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Play your favorite games in a borderless window; no more time consuming alt-tabs.
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[Bug] Aspect Ratio does not stick to 16:9 #128

Closed wilflare closed 9 years ago

wilflare commented 9 years ago

I'm using a 16:10 monitor. When using Borderless-Gaming, the 16:9 game (Legend of Korra) gets stretched to fit the 16:10 screen. Is there any way to use 16:10 with Black Bars?

psouza4 commented 9 years ago

There's no way that Borderless Gaming can or will modify games' behavior to add black bars. That falls under an entirely new type of program that overrides graphical rendering, etc.

You can, however, remove the border and keep a fixed size (no auto-maximize), instead and simply use a black background behind the program to have a similar effect.

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:09 AM, wilflare notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm using a 16:10 monitor. When using Borderless-Gaming, the 16:9 game (Legend of Korra) gets stretched to fit the 16:10 screen. Is there any way to use 16:10 with Black Bars?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/issues/128.

-Pete

wilflare commented 9 years ago

thanks for the clarification! hmm how do I do what you suggested using Borderless gaming?

psouza4 commented 9 years ago

There's probably quite a few easy ways to get a black screen behind your game. The way I do it is by using IrfanView, an image viewing program.

Create a 1x1 pixel image in MS Paint (or any other photo editing program) of your preferred color and save it somewhere. Open IrfanView, hit [P] to go to properties/preferences, click on Full screen/slideshow, click to turn off "Show text" (at the bottom) and click OK. Open your 1x1 pixel image, then hit ENTER to view it full screen. Play your windowed game on top of that full screen image to have it act as black bars.

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:27 AM, wilflare notifications@github.com wrote:

thanks for the clarification! hmm how do I do what you suggested using Borderless gaming?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/issues/128#issuecomment-111845754 .

-Pete

wilflare commented 9 years ago

I see! thanks :D sorry for this very noob question - but I can't seem to reposition my Windowed game :/

psouza4 commented 9 years ago

Do it in Borderless Gaming. After adding to your favorites, right-click the favorite entry for that game and you can adjust the offsets.

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:16 AM, wilflare notifications@github.com wrote:

I see! thanks :D sorry for this very noob question - but I can't seem to reposition my Windowed game :/

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/issues/128#issuecomment-111852159 .

-Pete

wilflare commented 9 years ago

thanks! changed from GeDoSaTo to Borderless-Gaming (GeDoSaTo does it as well... no black bars but I cannot adjust the offset)

any reason why Borderless-Gaming says 0x60-1920x1140 instead of 1920x1080?

and for Borderless-Gaming to work, I need to ensure my game is in Windowed Mode right? GeDoSaTo says to choose Fullscreen

wilflare commented 9 years ago

hi @psouza4 I just tried what you recommended can I check with you - for Irfanview, does the fullscreen do borderless windowed fullscreen? my taskbar disappears when it's fullscreen

psouza4 commented 9 years ago

We're working on a built-in solution to adding black bars for cases like these.

See https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/issues/117

Going to close this one since it's basically a duplicate at this point :)