Can't play games on low resolution because of black bars.

[Adolf_1]

I tried playing starcraft 2 on my laptop: Dell Inspiron 3521. With I5 3331 CPU and 2 Gpu's an Intel 4000 and an AMD 8730 2gb. I want to play on highest fps so I try to lower my resolution to get better performance. But when I try this in StarCraft I get black bars, I don't know what to do? Can anyone help me?

 

[viometrix]

if you are using the amd gpu you should be able to max the game at native resolution with 50+ fps.... make sure it is not stuck using the intel gpu

 

[James Mason]

If you get black bars, go to Catalyst Control Center, and set the overscan to 0%

 

[Adolf_1]

I don't know why it doesn't show this feature on catalyst. I reinstalled it and tried to find the changes. But it doesn't work. http://postimg.org/image/pkxo39dln/

 

[James Mason]

AMD ATI
The Ati Catalyst scaling default is set to around 7.5 which causes a thick black borders around all four sides of the display.

* Right click on the windows desktop
* Left click AMD Catalyst Control Center
* Along the left-hand side you will see My Digital Flat-Panels
* In there choose Scaling Options (Digital-Flat Panel)
* You will see a scroll bar for under-scan and over-scan. Check the box and slide the slider until your screen is filled
* Click Apply and done
-or-
* Right-click on your desktop and choose the AMD VISION Engine Control Center
* Along the left-hand side you will see My Digital Flat-Panels
* Click it and a sub menu pulls down
* Open the first item in the sub-menu 'Properties (Digital Flat Panel)'
* Move the slider (15%-0) to the right to 0
* Click Apply and done
-or-
* Right click on the Desktop
* Open the Catalyst Control Center
* Switch to Advanced mode
* Click the Drop down Menu Graphics in the top Right
* Select Desktops and Displays
* Right click on Currently Active Display. There is a little picture of a tiny Monitor and tiny Arrow at the far bottom left of the menu. It is this tiny Arrow that you left click on, then click Configure. Then the following 6 buttons will be available to you:
Attributes
Avivo Color
Scaling Options
HDTV Support
LCD Overdrive
Pixel Format
* Under Attributes, check the Enable GPU scaling box and the Scale image to full panel size
* Click Apply
* Select Configure
* Click on the Scaling Options tab
* Move the scale to the right until you get a full screen image 0%
* Click OK

 

[James Mason]

Umm, are you using a 4:3 resolution of a 16:9 laptop monitor? if so there will always be black bars on the side.

Also: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/UnableToSetGPUScaling.aspx

 

[Adolf_1]

It is a 4:3 I think the max resolution is 1366x768. I don't know why my settings for AMD catalyst aren't there. I can only do this with the intel graphics settings, but it doesn't let me modify my scaling.

 

[Adolf_1]

I have windows 10 Pro, would this be a problem? Also on intel graphics it says it doesn't support advanced settings.

 

[James Mason]

Yeah, your laptop's monitor is 16:9
Using a 4:3 resolution will leave black bars on the side.
Try a resolution of 640x360, that's the smallest 16:9.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16:9
Also, open AMD catalyst and check the power options, and make sure maximum performance is selected.