Why does SoRR HATE 4:3??

Okay so they updated the game to have a proper widescreen mode, yeah that's cool. But can anyone explain to me why fullscreen with widescreen set to "no" just can't be 4:3??

I can't even resize the window it seems to make it large enough in windowed to be 4:3? So frustrating! All these little touches and flourishes to honour the original game yet I can't play it in the correct aspect ratio.

YMB9Shinzou wrote:Okay so they updated the game to have a proper widescreen mode, yeah that's cool. But can anyone explain to me why fullscreen with widescreen set to "no" just can't be 4:3??

I can't even resize the window it seems to make it large enough in windowed to be 4:3? So frustrating! All these little touches and flourishes to honour the original game yet I can't play it in the correct aspect ratio.

I've also had an issue with 4:3 fullscreen. Although I can get it to play normally on 4:3, I can't turn back to windowed mode because the game crashes then.

A topic especially for bugs and glitches has been created. You should post this situation there.

YMB9Shinzou wrote:But can anyone explain to me why fullscreen with widescreen set to "no" just can't be 4:3??

Fullscreen with widescreen disabled produces a true 4:3 aspect resolution screen, not a widescreen with black bars. This is a problem with your computer's display settings, not the game.

Your post hasn't really described what's actually being shown on your screen, but it sounds like whatever the issue is, it's with your graphics card and screen scaling in resolutions lower than native. If you're seeing a tiny box in the middle of the monitor with the game window when you're in fullscreen, you may not have your screen scaling set correctly. You need to make sure your monitor is correctly upscaling low resolution modes to fit your monitor as large as possible. For instance, with an NVidia card you'd go into NVidia Control Panel, go to "Adjust desktop size and position" and make sure scaling mode is set to "Aspect Ratio" (and set perform scaling on GPU in case your monitor is not handling the scaling correctly).

bareknuckleroo wrote:

YMB9Shinzou wrote:But can anyone explain to me why fullscreen with widescreen set to "no" just can't be 4:3??

Fullscreen with widescreen disabled produces a true 4:3 aspect resolution screen, not a widescreen with black bars. This is a problem with your computer's display settings, not the game.

Your post hasn't really described what's actually being shown on your screen, but it sounds like whatever the issue is, it's with your graphics card and screen scaling in resolutions lower than native. If you're seeing a tiny box in the middle of the monitor with the game window when you're in fullscreen, you may not have your screen scaling set correctly. You need to make sure your monitor is correctly upscaling low resolution modes to fit your monitor as large as possible. For instance, with an NVidia card you'd go into NVidia Control Panel, go to "Adjust desktop size and position" and make sure scaling mode is set to "Aspect Ratio" (and set perform scaling on GPU in case your monitor is not handling the scaling correctly).

This fixed it for me thanks. This has been tormenting me for literally years... some of the screens I played it on would work in regular 4:3 but some would stretch it and I could never find the answer. Thanks a lot broseph.

Glad that fixed it for you.