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[Krazy Kat]

Not a new player but new to changing my settings.

I have a lame vid card but to prevent crashing on previous builds I set my game res to the same as my desktop res, 1920x1080, and ran in full windowed mode. The frame rate was bad, but I never crashed. The crashing probs are now fixed so I can tweak my settings.

Wiht the change to 12vs12 my frame rate is so bad I needed to change my settings. I changed from full window to full screen and it helped a bit.

I am now experimenting (in full screen) with lower resolutions to get my FPS up. But the game is warped, stretched. Even in modes that should have the same aspect ratio (1.77:1.)

Any advice?

[Blalok]

Post your system specs; I expect someone else is running the same thing.

Have you tried enabling v-sync? I've heard that can help... No other suggestions come to mind, other than to make sure you have the most recent drivers.

[Capt Jester]

Full-screen, all low specs, AA (anti-aliasing) turned off, vsync on. If that doesn't help your FPS, then lowering your resolution will. 1920x1080 (full 1080p) is very taxing on low-end graphics card, so I find it a little silly you bought a monitor that high res without a GPU to support it.

You might try running normal windowed mode (not full windowed, just windowed) and lower the resolution. That should prevent stretching and warping.

[Nauht]

See if your graphics card control panel can turn off linking your screen resolution with aspect ratio.

Some monitors do it automatically, stretching the picture to fill the screen but in most modern cards you can manually set the aspect ratio or set the res in game.

[Krazy Kat]

Nauht, on 08 August 2013 - 08:03 PM, said:

See if your graphics card control panel can turn off linking your screen resolution with aspect ratio.

Some monitors do it automatically, stretching the picture to fill the screen but in most modern cards you can manually set the aspect ratio or set the res in game.

Thanks. My controls have this option. I'll try it tonight.

But I'm still not sure why resolutions that have the same aspect ratio (1.77:1) should appear stretched. If the aspect ratio is the same, the image should be the same, only lower quality.

[Traigus]

Krazy Kat, on 09 August 2013 - 04:09 PM, said:

Thanks. My controls have this option. I'll try it tonight.

But I'm still not sure why resolutions that have the same aspect ratio (1.77:1) should appear stretched. If the aspect ratio is the same, the image should be the same, only lower quality.

My brother had this problem on his video editing computer took us a bunch of research to figure out

The real base aspect ratio is 16:9.

What happens is that people use both 1.77:1 and 1.78:1 to get there (the second # is a little smaller and not truly 16:9, but part of the agreements to get everything to fit right with all the TV and camera sizes out there) and the numbers get messed up. Programmers see a camera with 16:9 and notes the resolution in pixels, and doesn't know he has a 1.78:1 camera and assumes it is 1.77:1 and adds it to the res list on a video card.

1.77:1 = 16:9 =1:78:1 and
suddenly
1.77:1 is = to 1,78:1

or more clearly "All 16:9 = 1.77:1" which isn't true so some resolutions are listed as 1.77:1 but are really not.... they do fit on 16:9 tv's and monitors though with a little more black padding... since you have stretching on, it warps.

You want the true 1.77:1 scaling, the math runs better on the video cards then the 1:78.1.



Some of the more standard (these should be all 1.77:1)
640×360, 854×480, 960×540, 1024×576, 1280×720, 1366×768, 1600×900, 1920×1080, 2048×1152, 2560×1440, 2880x1620, 3840×2160 and 4096×2304.

1080p (Full HD) is 1920×1080

720p (HD) is 1280×720.

Edited by Traigus, 09 August 2013 - 05:06 PM.

[Krazy Kat]

Update.

It appears that the stretching screen problem is with my monitor, not my video.

I can make the problem go away two ways:

1. Play in full window instead of full screen.
2. Enable GPU scaling in my graphics card control panel.

Turning off linking your screen resolution with aspect ratio is another option but it is grayed out in my options.

[Carl Avery]

I just found a workaround for some people who have to reduce from 1920x1080 (16:9) to 1280x720 (16:9) for better frame rate.  On my monitor, 1920x1080 gives the proper aspect ratio (entire screen filled), but upon reducing to 1280x720, the "black bars" appear on the top & bottom of the screen, and the picture is compressed vertically.  Here's the workaround: first, set the Windowed Mode dropdown box to "fullscreen."  Now, every time you start the game, go to the video settings, set the resolution to 1600x900, hit Save, then set the resolution to 1280x720, and then hit Save again.  You should now have the proper aspect ratio for the duration of this session of Mechwarrior Online.

Edited by Carl Avery, 30 April 2014 - 11:40 AM.