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Why am I having black bars on the TOP and BOTTOM, instead of the sides of the monitor ??

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October 7, 2014 10:07:30 AM

It just happened today, when I updated my graphics' drivers... I have radeon 7870... When I use 4:3 in-game (CS:GO) there are bars on the top and bottom, instead of the usual side black bars. I used to play with black bars on the sides of the screen before, but now I cannot achieve this. Does anybody know why this happened? An obvious reason that I might be missing, maybe?

Edit: Forgot to mention that this is also true for my desktop resolution, not only in-game.
Also I found out that I cannot deselect GPU-scaling from the catalyst control center... Might be a hint to some bug that's occuring with the new drivers.

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October 7, 2014 10:30:06 AM

Check the resolution in-game. See if the new driver update lets it run at your monitor's native resolution. Also check to see if the driver update messed with video scaling properties in Catalyst.


"normally" black bars on top/bottom happen when you play wide screen video on a 4:3 monitor.
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October 7, 2014 10:30:55 AM

Not sure, but is this an HDMI cable?

If so you could have got rid of the side bars with the over scan setting, or custom settings depending on what you GPU calls it.

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October 7, 2014 10:31:18 AM

i don't think about that,
-could be the update
-or new resolution option for adjusting, try to change while in game running.
Hope that will work.
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October 7, 2014 10:59:55 AM

kittle said:
Check the resolution in-game. See if the new driver update lets it run at your monitor's native resolution. Also check to see if the driver update messed with video scaling properties in Catalyst.


"normally" black bars on top/bottom happen when you play wide screen video on a 4:3 monitor.


Yes I can run the game on 1920x1080 res, I don't see any settings being changed in the video settings... And yes. It's really weird that this happens, because it's a 16:9 monitor, and when I set the resolution to a 4:3 one, it puts black bars on the top and bottom of the screen, and it stretches it even more...

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October 7, 2014 11:07:09 AM

HpiBmx Jackson said:
i don't think about that,
-could be the update
-or new resolution option for adjusting, try to change while in game running.
Hope that will work.

Nope, nothing.
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October 7, 2014 11:19:08 AM

I'll try one more time.
Are you using an HDMI cable?

If you are, most GPUs think you are using a TV, so you have to make adjustments.
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October 7, 2014 11:22:23 AM

millwright said:
Not sure, but is this an HDMI cable?

If so you could have got rid of the side bars with the over scan setting, or custom settings depending on what you GPU calls it.


No, it's DVI. Also, I can do 4:3 on my monitor, and that way I have bars both in-game and on my desktop, but I don't like having 4:3 on my desktop... I just like to have it in-game. Also, http://i.imgur.com/a1KckwK.jpg, this image show exactly what needs to happen when you have 4:3 on a 16:9 monitor, yet it doesn't happen, and it stretches the image even more, to the sides, instead leaving it be and put bars on the sides. Another thing, I can't deselect GPU scaling for some reason, maybe that's a hint as well...
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October 7, 2014 11:26:36 AM

Never had a problem with DVI, and always with HDMI.

I could be the drivers.
Is there anything wrong with the old drivers?
If the new ones are not better, try the old ones, until the next driver update.
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October 7, 2014 11:33:46 AM

millwright said:
Never had a problem with DVI, and always with HDMI.

I could be the drivers.
Is there anything wrong with the old drivers?
If the new ones are not better, try the old ones, until the next driver update.

I'll try installing the old ones and report if the issue is still present. Thx for the help too :) 
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