Question / Help Having Trouble Fitting to Screen

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Nesquik12

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Hi this is my first post, and I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing.
I've been playing with my settings for a while now, mainly my resolution. The quick start guide I read when I started told me my native resolution should be fine. So I set it to that (1440x900). However when I preview the stream, it looks fine, and as though it fits perfectly, but when I actually watch the stream there's dead space like this on the sides:
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I already tried right clicking the source and pressing "fit to screen", centering it, etc. but I'm not sure how I should fix this..
Thanks! (:
 
Warchamp7

Warchamp7

Forum Admin
First off, you're using a somewhat old version right now, so I recommend updating (The latest version has an auto updater as well now)

Secondly, could you link to one of your VODs so I can see the issue myself?
 
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Lain

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Lain
Forum Moderator
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Your monitor, or your game, is set to one aspect ratio. The twitch player on your twitch page, when not maximized, uses a different aspect ratio (if you don't know what aspect ratio is, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_%28image%29 ). That is why this occurs. This is not actually a problem, this simply means your monitor is not the same aspect ratio as the twitch player when the player isn't maximized.
 
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Nesquik12

New Member
I noticed that after the vod is up the next day or so it's adjusted to fit the screen permanently, and this problem only occurs when I'm streaming. I guess I just have to live with it or get another monitor? Thank you sir (:
 
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Twitchie

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From what I know, Twitch.TV uses a aspect ratio of 16:9. Since you're streaming your native resolution (1440x900) which is a 16:10 aspect ratio or if you perfer to say 8:5, it will show those black bars. If you plan to get a new monitor I would look for something that has a 16:9 aspect ratio(ex:1080p,720p, 1600x900)
I have this same issue and I don't really want to buy a new monitor so what I did to get rid of those black bars was stream 720p and use game capture for pc gaming. Game capture has the "ignore aspect ratio" option and will get rid of the empty space in your preview screen but that causes the feedback to stretch itself when you're streaming.
 
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Grimio

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To solve this without buying a new monitor, you can use a 16:9 resolution yourself.
So, if you actually use 1440x900 now, change it to 1440x810. You should now have black bars on the top and bottom of your screen(if your scaling is set correctly, else you need to set it yourself in your monitor/GPU settings) and your viewers will have a perfectly normal 16:9 stream.
 
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