Hello, today I noticed while streaming I see black borders/empty space on the left and right parts of the screen when streaming. After doing some things recommended by someone on the OBS Discord server, which was uninstall OBS.Live, reboot and install OBS Studio 64-Bit, I started to stream again and the issue was still there, but then I was curious to see if it's just me or every other person on twitch, and it seems every other stream I check out I see the same thing. Now I'm starting to think it is monitor related, that the aspect ratio is not 16:9 or whatever if it is, since both monitors have native resolutions of 1920x1080 which I use. I wonder if this problem has been there for a while and I'm just noticing it now? or if it's a setting I did in OBS..I'm not sure. Either way if someone knows a solution I would greatly appreciate it, and I can post any log file or whatever else is needed. And also here is a screenshot I took of my live stream earlier, showing the "black borders on left/right side of the screen".
Question / Help Black Border Around Left/Right of Screen
- Thread starter milktruck
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koala
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Your game is probably running windowed, and OBS captures the actual game surface, omitting Windows title bar, menu bar, borders, task bar. What remains is not aspect ratio 16:9. Either play your game fullscreen without borders or resize your game window in a way so the actual game surface, the so-called client area of the game, has aspect ratio 16:9. In your screenshot this would mean you have to shrink it a bit vertically and/or enlarge it horizontally.