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SuvwlQa
12 years ago
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Screen Resolution Change - hard to describe

I took a break from ME3 a couple months ago and recently returned to a very unusual occurance that's not that easy to decribe so please bare with me here. When I played ME3 before (in fact I have al...
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    1ago
    12 years ago

    This seems to be a monitor issue instead of a Mass Effect / OS issue. Did you by any chance change monitors? Usually there should be a monitor setting of "pass through" or "no rescaling" or "native" in its menu so that the monitor won't scale the picture to fit the screen but outputs pixel-per-pixel (which would result in the black borders you described).

    Usually these distortions are due to a "fit-to-screen" setting. There may be a "fit-to-aspect-ratio" setting that should enlarge the picture, but not distort the aspect ratio.

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1ago
12 years ago

That's normal. ME3 shows what you see according to your aspect ratio. Since the native screen resolution is 16:9 you don't see more of the top and bottom. 1024x768 is a 4:3 aspect ratio, so you see more of the top and bottom. If there was a problem with your screen the HUD would be cropped (the powers and ammo count)

Here's an example of the opposite situation, where you can see more the wider the ratio gets. It appears, the designers of ME chose to let people see more in a 4:3 aspect ratio. But it's hard to tell since the screenshots are from different points in the game. You could compare the two better if you captured the same scene in both resolutions.

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SuvwlQa
12 years ago

I swear it was different before, but w/e if it was different then I'll have to get used to it or change the settings.

Regardless though ME1 and ME2 are definitely fixed, so thank you for the help.