Black bars on Asus monitor

[ievi]

Hello so I have Asus monitor, It is a great monitor but I have started to notice some black bars when I play games on it lately. I'm currently using gtx 970 so i'm not really sure what is causing this I have taken two pics one at 1920x1080(native) and one at 1280x800.

its kinda like a letterbox effect

if you could help it would be greatly appreciated, or maybe its supposed to be like that i'm not sure to be honest.

1920x1080

1280x800

 

[photonboy]

Hi,
You need to have ASPECT scaling setup. There are two ways:

1) monitor itself

2) NVidia drivers->
Open NVidia Control Panel then change to "Scale on GPU" and also scale by "Aspect"

(I'm not at the correct PC to tell you the exact path)

 

[photonboy]

More:
When you scale by "Aspect" it means to maintain the same ratio (not warp/stretch).

If you do that on the MONITOR itself, then when you play a game at 1024x768 then that resolution is received by the monitor then scaled internally to properly fit (so you get black bars on left and right if 1920x1080 but not on top and bottom, with content properly scaled).

On the GPU itself the scaling is done there, and the native resolution, such as 1920x1080, is always sent to the monitor. Again, the stretching etc is done properly.

Other:
If you choose a 1:1 scaling that draws exact same pixels so physically on the monitor if you had say 1600x900 for a 1920x1080 monitor then you'd have black bars all around. So again choose ASPECT and if the game was 1600x900 it would fit be scaled to fit the screen (either on GPU or on monitors scaler).

 

[ievi]

thanks for the reply, It has worked thanks there is still like 3mm black bar going around the screen, but i think that is how the monitor is.