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Black Bars

priznaprizna
edited July 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
Hi,

I was just wondering if there is a way to make the game entirley full screen with no black bars. I am playing the game on highest quality with highest resoloution but there are still thin black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.

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  • VeganVegan
    edited July 2009
    But it's a widescreen game. It's like if you watched a DVD on a 4:3 TV, it's gonna have a letterbox. You can't put a square peg in a round hole, or in this case, a rectangular peg in a square hole.
  • priznaprizna
    edited July 2009
    If you play on the highest resoloution do you still have the bars?. The reason i ask is i was messing around with the resoloution to see what they looked like then whent back to the highest resoloution and that was the first time i actually noticed them.
  • FrogacudaFrogacuda
    edited July 2009
    Vegan wrote: »
    But it's a widescreen game. It's like if you watched a DVD on a 4:3 TV, it's gonna have a letterbox. You can't put a square peg in a round hole, or in this case, a rectangular peg in a square hole.

    Actually, the game has a full-screen mode that worked in the reviewable and was cut out in the 5 days before the official release. Kind of obnoxious.
  • TeaTea
    edited July 2009
    I like the letterbox, it makes it feel more cinematic with all the other film-type effects going on.
  • Random VariableRandom Variable
    edited July 2009
    It must be 16:9 (like HDTV) because even at 1920x1200 (16:10) there are black bars.
  • FrogacudaFrogacuda
    edited July 2009
    Random Variable wrote: »
    It must be 16:9 (like HDTV) because even at 1920x1200 (16:10) there are black bars.

    correct
  • WDerangedWDeranged
    edited July 2009
    Its a nasty trend lately, 4:3 displays are still very common and lots of us have reasonably new and expensive screens that we don't want to sacrifice for the sake of a handfull of widescreen only games.
  • KaldireKaldire
    edited July 2009
    why even bother with that res in this game.. does it really make that much of a difference with these models and backgrounds?

    dun dun dunnn
  • AwesomepantsmanAwesomepantsman
    edited July 2009
    ...there aren't any black bars in 1280x720, because it already has an aspect ratio of 16:9.
  • corruptbigginscorruptbiggins
    edited July 2009
    I've only noticed the black bars after I went back to check because of this thread. I've got a widescreen monitor using a resolution of 1440x900. The bars are there but they aren't that big (half an inch or so at most).
  • WDerangedWDeranged
    edited July 2009
    Most widescreen monitors are 16:10 aspect, this game is 16:9 so you will get some bars even on widescreen monitors.
  • DjNDBDjNDB Moderator
    edited July 2009
    I have answered that in another Thread.
  • BeeKay84BeeKay84
    edited July 2009
    TheJoe wrote: »
    I like the letterbox, it makes it feel more cinematic with all the other film-type effects going on.

    Me too! The cutscenes feel like a movie that way! :)
  • HoppyDragonHoppyDragon
    edited July 2009
    Okay, I'm going to break this down for you guys with 4:3 monitors.

    This is what you guys see in a 4:3 resolution.
    You're getting the exact same view as everyone else, but with added black bars on the top and bottom.
    screen.jpg



    If Telltale had natively supported 4:3, your view area would be
    chopped off on the left and right sides, and you'd see something like this.
    picture.php?albumid=245&pictureid=1716



    If the viewing area was stretched so you had no black bars, it would look like this.
    picture.php?albumid=245&pictureid=1718



    And if the black bars were replaced by, per imagination,
    what should be in the black space, this is what you would have.
    (Sorry for the crappiness of the image!)
    picture.php?albumid=245&pictureid=1717
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