wrong resolution when playing

[moking]

Hello fellas,

Lately ive installed a fresh win7 and something really strange has happened. some of games are supposed to be displayed on max res. of my display 1280x1024 (i know its poor )

Now with some games like fifa 16 or dirt3 or son of rome the game starts like this picture

see those black annoying spaces on top and bottom of the screen ? those are also on full screen display. that doesn't happen with for example league of legends.

i tried to install the latest driver update from AMD, but didn't help.

my specs:
I5-4440
8gb kingstone hyperx
r9-270x

 

[evilsofa]

1280x1024 is a 5:4 resolution. I would guess that those games don't know about 5:4 resolutions so they're defaulting to either 1280x960 (a 4:3 resolution), 1280x800 (a 16:10 resolution) or 1280x720 (a 16:9 resolution). I lack the measuring and math skills to determine which of those resolutions that the game in the picture has chosen but that doesn't really matter.

The solution would be to set the game in question to use a custom resolution of 1280x1024. The method varies by game, but is often as simple as editing an .ini file somewhere. WSGF will have details about resolution fixes for almost every PC game. (WSGF is down at the moment I write this but they should be back up soon.)

 

[moking]

you are perfectly correct because when i put my monitor resolution to 1024x800 fifa 16 went full screen so basically it runs at 1280x800 even though the game settings are set to 1280x1024 and same for the monitor.

the thing is that the fifa16 settings file is set to 1280x1024

NUMBER_SPEAKERS = 2
RENDERINGQUALITY = 3
WAITFORVSYNC = 1
VOICECHAT = 0
MSAA_LEVEL = 4
ASPECTRATIO =   1.333330
RESOLUTIONHEIGHT = 1024
RESOLUTIONWIDTH = 1280

 

[evilsofa]

WSGF seems to have moved to http://www.wsgf.org/ when I wasn't looking. Now I have an answer for you: EA broke FIFA 16's aspect ratios pretty badly. In this thread on fifaforums, amongst complaints that 21:9 resolutions are broken, someone comments that it's not displaying 1280x1024 correctly either.

Just before that post, someone comments that there is a solution on WSGF that involves hex editing. That would fix it for 21:9 resolutions but you would need to calculate the hex value for the aspect ratio of 1280x1024. 5:4 = 1.25 and the hex value for 1.25 is 3FA0 0000 (those are all zeroes).

There is a WSGF thread here specifically about fixing FIFA 16, explaining which file to alter and all that. Just plug the hex value 3FA0 0000 in for the aspect ratio you want.

Most games are not that difficult to fix. Thanks, EA!

 

[moking]

if u meant replacing the hex 39 8E E3 3F with 3FA0 0000. that didn't work.

 

[evilsofa]

Oh, I think I see where I went wrong. Here's the original writeup for calculating the hex code:

Calculate your aspect ratio
For example:
5985/1080 = 5.541666666666667
Convert it to hex value here - http://babbage.cs.qc.cuny.edu/IEEE-754/
You get - 40 B1 55 55
Now write bytes from right to left, so it will be 55 55 B1 40
Open mgsvtpp.exe in HEX-editor
Find value 39 8E E3 3F and change it to 55 55 B1 40
Save file
Play

I did not see the part where you write the bytes from right to left. So your hex value should instead be 0000 A03F, if I understand this correctly.

 

[moking]

nope, same thing with more stretched menus...i think ill just adapt to what it is :/