OpenGL Help

[Tinfoilbot65]

This isn't a ordinary problem, but I bet everyone has this problem as well. Now the problem: If I extending my screen size, black bars might be visible! Is there anyway to get rid of these "black bars?"

 

[fickleheart]

Use a resolution that matches the aspect ratio of your screen. SDL2 builds use a form of windowed fullscreen that scales the game resolution to your active screen resolution, and it uses pillarboxing/letterboxing to pad the sides out to avoid distortion. (By comparison, DD builds simply change the screen resolution to the resolution you're using, and most screens I've used - at least on laptops - will stretch and distort the screen by default. That's a horrendous default, by the way.)

One thing to note is the recommended "green" resolutions are all 16:10, and your screen is probably 16:9 in this day and age, so none of the resolutions that match your screen will match the recommended resolutions. But that's not as much of a problem in OpenGL since it just stretches everything anyway.

 

[Tinfoilbot65]

My aspect Ratio is 16:9. Is there any screen sizes of SRB2 that supports 16:9?

 

[fickleheart]

Just match your desktop resolution. That'll give you the highest video quality in OGL.

 

[SANICBOOM644]

1600x900 is probably what you're looking for

 

[Zwip-Zwap Zapony]

1600x900 is probably what you're looking for

That's 16:9, yes, but unless that is the native resolution of their monitor, they should go with a different resolution instead.

 

[MK.exe]

Just go with the green reso strating with 1280

 

[Tinfoilbot65]

1280x720 is my screen resoulution... BUT STILL BLACK BARS!


EDIT:Until the problem is fixed, I'll use Software instead.

 

[SANICBOOM644]

Software is better in all regards, as that was the way the game was built. You're better off playing like that

 

[Zwip-Zwap Zapony]

1280x720 is my screen resoulution... BUT STILL BLACK BARS!

Then 1280x720 isn't your monitor's native resolution, and your monitor isn't 16:9. Are the black bars on the left and right or on the top and bottom, though?

 

[Tinfoilbot65]

Let's say both. .-.

 

[Zwip-Zwap Zapony]

Then your monitor is really just kind of a bit broken, to put it simple. Or it's widescreen, but set to some 4:3 mode or such (putting black bars on the sides) while you're playing in a widescreen resolution (putting black bars on the top and bottom, to display the widescreen output in the 4:3 shape it has).

 

[Lach]

Is your game in fullscreen mode? Try typing "fullscreen on" or "fullscreen off" in the console and see what that does.

 

[Blaze The Cat]

Black bars are not uncommon to the gaming world; they're simply there as a safety to any display mismatches. DooM was originally built to handle multiples of 320x200 and this was most effective on CRT monitors which could support such a mode. This is why you get black bars on Software with fullscreen, because the software rendering code just isn't capable of producing non-standard modes. On windowed mode, it'll show up fine.

This is why I play SRB2 in windowed mode.

In OpenGL mode, you're able to more freely control the output resolution due to using a different graphics library, but when you take a screen-shot..

You still get artifacts sometimes. Because OpenGL is basically an entire rewrite.