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    Black bars on sides when playing rome total war

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by cyclone93, Nov 24, 2011.

  1. cyclone93

    cyclone93 Notebook Enthusiast

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    i have the xps 15 l502x with the gt540m. i installed latest drivers from nvidia, and latest intel drivers from dell, i went to intel control panel and changed the scaling setting under MEDIA to stretch. but nvidia has no scaling option. so when i play rome total war i always get black bars on side. how do i get rid of this?


    thanks
     
    cyclone93, Nov 24, 2011
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    Sam_A_1992 Notebook Evangelist

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    Your pc's res is most likely higher than the game supports. Try changing it.
     
    Sam_A_1992, Nov 24, 2011
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    cyclone93 Notebook Enthusiast

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    the game only lets me choose 1024x768 but my laptop res is 1920x1080, so i have to change from 1920x1080 to 1024x768??
     
    cyclone93, Nov 24, 2011
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    yes give it a go.
     
    Sam_A_1992, Nov 24, 2011
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    cyclone93 Notebook Enthusiast

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    i tried to change my res to 1024x768 but then the desktop had black bars too
     
    cyclone93, Nov 25, 2011
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    There's usually a setting in the graphics drivers for centering and sizing of lower resolutions. However, for some reason I'm not seeing a setting in mine, but you might. In the Nvidia drivers it should be called something like "Adjust desktop size and position".
     
    DakkonA, Nov 25, 2011
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    cyclone93 Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok its fixed now, i just changed my desktop resolution from 1367x768 to 1600x900 using nvidia control panel and it worked, cant believe it took so long to figure this out.
     
    cyclone93, Nov 25, 2011
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    what happened to resolution of other games after the desktop resolution was changed?
     
    chandru123, Jan 4, 2012
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