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[TooDumbToQuit]

I'm trying to get out of 1920-1080 to something I can see better. I'm tired of having to use a magnifying glass to read text not to mention it is hard to see an enemy mech.

I have a 23-inch monitor and it says that other 19:9 ratios will work. I have a list of them.

However, they do not fit or fill my screen.

Maybe this was only the old monitors but I remember being able to stretch the screen which you cannot do now.

I'm at 1280 x 720 ATM and I have a 1/2 inch at the top and bottom and almost an inch at the sides.

Is there anyway to adjust this?

well, i'm at 1600 x 900 now...same thing..

[utopian201]

Is there a scaling option in your monitor's OSD?

[TooDumbToQuit]

Nope...anyway, it does not seem to matter. I cannot make the game "larger". After I put in my new Graphics card, I need to upgrade to a 40 inch 4K screen. Simply to get things "bigger" so I can see them better.

And also because I tend to read and watch everything from my PC monitor anyway.

I'm giving up "book reading" after 2 more books. My eyes just give up and "white out" after trying to read for a while. A Kindle is no better so I will try audio books I guess.

[Bellum Dominum]

I have a 2560x1440 but play in 1920x1080 on a 24in widescreen for similar reasons: Just hard to see in that large of a resolution. Tis just an old timers ailment.

If you have the game in either fullscreen or full windowed then there shouldn't be any margins around the game on your monitor.

You really don't need a 4k screen. They are still grossly over priced first of all and the clarity difference between a 4k and a 'high end' 144hz monitor the human eye can't even notice. Plus most 4k screens are going to be about 45hz or 45 frames per second capped. They go all the way up to 144hz if you want to spend an even more crazy amount for something that you honestly aren't even going to notice.

This is more than anyone really needs but it is the monitor that I use:
http://www.benq.us/p...monitor/XL2430T

[Ano]

Just to check: if you change your desktop resolution to 1280x720 or 1600x900, does it fill the screen?

Most graphics drivers have a scaling option in them now which typically allows you to select "scale to fit" (which could stretch the image), scale proportionally (scale but keep the same shape) or "actual pixels/do not scale". It could be that last one is what you have set.

On the Catalyst drivers for my elderly Radeon card, there's a section called "My digital flat panels" in which for each monitor I can select "maintain aspect ratio", "scale image to full panel size" and "use centered timings". You'll *probably* find similar options somewhere in the display drivers for your card -- that might solve your problem.

[TooDumbToQuit]

It only fills the screen if I go 1920-1080.

Here is why I need a bigger screen and as my Doctor told me, no one understands it who does not go through it. My wife and I just had another ..well...argument about it. She always wants to believe that something can be done when sometimes, it simply cannot.

I've been legally blind my whole life. Last year I had cataract surgery and this year a retinal tear. The plus on my cataracts being done is huge. I can pass my driver's license test. I can even drive and wake around without any glasses. I can take a shower safer because I can see. I can now FIND my glasses, lol, I used to have to know where they were.

However.....I'm on Medicaid and they will only pay for the "Far" or "Near" lens, not the "Astigmatism" one. And I had to take the "Far" lens because I did not have $2,000 and I will always regret this.

I cannot see anything close. And I have good and new glasses but they only do so much. For instance, every Mech has a HUD. And on my screen, it is about an inch by an inch. And I cannot really see it. So I have to get close to the screen with my bifocals to see it better or pull up the map.

If I had a bigger monitor, I'd have a HUG that was 2 inches by 2 inches....I'm thinking of hooking up my 46 inch Madden playing Plasma TV and putting it on my computer table.

Edited by LikeUntoGod, 25 October 2016 - 07:58 AM.

[Penrose Willoughby]

Just to be absolutely clear LikeUntoGod, you are sure that in the video settings you have fullscreen selected?

Secondly, have you tried using alt+enter to force fullscreen?

I ask because you didn't explicitly say you are sure you have fullscreen selected, and if you had window selected, but had the same resolution set as your monitor, it would still look fullscreen. So please try changing your resolution to a lower one, and if it does not fill the entire screen, hold alt and press enter and let us know what happens.

Sorry to hear about your vision issues, I'm glad it sounds like you've gotten some improvement lately.

[TooDumbToQuit]

As far as full screen, I'm sorry, I did not mean the game, but on my monitor at all.

Anyway, does not matter, thanks all

P.S. Has anyone tried playing on a 46 inch TV?

[Bellum Dominum]

Oh so it is not just the game that is giving you issues. Everything on your monitor has this issue?
That sounds like one of two possible issues then: Monitor going bad or video card not powerful enough. It is entirely possible that you simply don't have your monitor settings right as well.

You may have already gone through this but try:
Right click desktop. (Any where on the desktop that is free of any icons.)
Left click: Display Settings.
Scroll down to: Advanced display settings and left click.
Scroll down to: Resolution. Select your monitor size there should be a (Recommended) next to your monitors largest possible setting.
Left click: Apply.

This is going to make your entire screen 'smaller' in appearance. What it is actually doing is enlarging the entire space of your desktop which 'pushes' away all your icons so to speak so they get smaller in size.

What you can now do is scroll down to: Adavanced sizing of text and other items and left click that.

There you will find: custom scaling level. Here you can adjust how large all the items on your desktop are.

These steps I've outlined for you are for Windows 10 so if you are using a different OS or older Windows the 'exact steps' will be different but these options are available on all versions of windows they just get called different things and are found in different locations.

After you have done all of this and if your screen is now fully filling your monitor then it will be time to start up the game and see how it looks for you. It will most likely again be smaller and you'll have to go into it's video settings to adjust the things we've already suggested for you.

Good luck and I'll check in on the thread to see if any of this was of help or if you need some other help.

Oh and yes I've played on a 46" and it was simply too large for me so I went ahead and ordered this monitor lol.

[CJ Daxion]

well, there are a bunch that are listed

with 1600 x 1050, 1024, 900

with 1280 x 1024, 960, 800, 768, 720


Have you also set your main monitor to one of them first? Sometimes that can be an issue with games. For example in crusader kings II, i can't set the resolution in game, i have to resize my monitor no clue why.

Lastly, i tried to run my computer on my big screen tv, but my vid card is not strong enough to run at good FPS, and i get tearing along the middle at 1600, if i lower it it works, but still not smooth.. maybe if i tried a very simple older game, like Odd world, or something. But i just think ill have to wait for a new card like the 1050 TI, that is just coming out for 150 dollars.


I'd try setting my main screen at one of those resolutions, and then go with the game resolution to match and see what happens. I think i'd try 1600 x900 and 1280 x 800 or 768 and see what happens.. Load up in testing grounds.

[Tier5 Kerensky]

Both monitor as well as graphics card should have a scaling option which is used when using lesser than native resolution. Different manufactuters use different wording for it. But for example my monitor refuses to draw all graphics modes at is, it will scale some of them.

Graphics driver scaling might be a better bet.

[TooDumbToQuit]

I was trying to change the resolution of my monitor since MWO makes me use the same one.

I was hoping that in some way I could make things easier to see.

Next year I hope to be able to get a 40 inch TV/Monitor. Thanks again