Black Bars in Dark Souls 2

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  1. Yecnot

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    Running on a GT 640 and a 1440x900 monitor. In the game I set resolution to my native but I'm still getting some form of letterboxing. I did make sure to turn off scaling in the nvcp.
     
  2. ViperXtreme

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    like dark souls 1, assassin's creed series, it was meant to have letterboxing as they are designed to run at 16:9 resolution, only way is for the developers to patch the game (like the case of witcher 2)
     
  3. Bradders684

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    I was going to suggest setting the scaling mode to full screen because when I set the res to 1600x900 (my default res is 1920x1080) I get black borders, setting the scaling mode to full screen removes.

    I tried it at 1440x900 but I get bet black bars no matter what setting I use.

    Try creating a custom 1600x900 resolution in the nvcp and set set the scaling mode to full screen.

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    I managed to remove the black bars (mostly) by creating a 1440x800 resolution.

    1440x900
    1440x800
    NVCP Settings
     
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  5. MrBonk

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    You are going to get black bars no matter what without stretching unless you play in a 16:9 resolution. The game was designed around 16:9.
     
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    It's a Japanese title, they design all of their games around 16:9 like this.

    So as others said it is normal.
     
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    You don't understand man. The OCD is REAL.That centimeter of height could be the difference between life & death :bang:
     
  8. Bradders684

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    Create a custom resolution of 1440x810 and you will have a 16.9 resolution with no black bars.

    1440x810
     
  9. draegunstrife

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    Use this and try downsampling a 16:9 res it to your resolution. Make sure you read the readme file. Might solve your issue.
     
  10. Prophet

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    No reason to be rude. People are here because they like maximum performance from their graphics cards. I agree, black bars is unacceptable.
     

  11. CalinTM

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    I Think only AC1 had some patch homebrew to eliminate the black bars.
     
  12. V@IO

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    Simple Solution:
    Uninstall Dark Souls 2
     
  13. Mda400

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    Well what ever you do, don't use any other scaling mode than No Scaling and Display. If you care about input lag, then you would follow this advice.
     

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