Question / Help Help. Streaming in full screen.

[Sickxx]

Hello, Im experiencing a dilemma. When I stream League of Legends, my stream in twitch is ful lscreen, as in covers the whole screen. When I watch pro gamers or just other streamers, their streams are not full screen, they always have a black boarder at the top and at the bottom of their stream. I would really like to know how they achieve that so I dont cover the whole window in full screen mode. My monitor resolution is 1280x1024 and thats the resolution I stream at via OBS. My resolution downscale is set to None (1280x1024). My ingame resolution is also 1280x1024.

 

[Xphome]

Hello, Im experiencing a dilemma. When I stream League of Legends, my stream in twitch is ful lscreen, as in covers the whole screen. When I watch pro gamers or just other streamers, their streams are not full screen, they always have a black boarder at the top and at the bottom of their stream. I would really like to know how they achieve that so I dont cover the whole window in full screen mode. My monitor resolution is 1280x1024 and thats the resolution I stream at via OBS. My resolution downscale is set to None (1280x1024). My ingame resolution is also 1280x1024.

Your aspect ratio is 5:4, the standard aspect ratio is 16:9. If you want your stream to be widescreen you need to lower your game and stream resolution to a 16:9 resolution, like 1280x720.

 

[Sickxx]

Thanks for your reply but OBS doesnt give me a 1280x720 option it only gives me 1280x1024, 1024x818, 856,682 and so on. Plus when I set my game resolution to 1280x720 it has the borders I wanted but sadly now I can see my desktop on the top and bottom :D Will I have to set my monitor resolution also, or is this a monitor problem??

 

[Xphome]

Thanks for your reply but OBS doesnt give me a 1280x720 option it only gives me 1280x1024, 1024x818, 856,682 and so on. Plus when I set my game resolution to 1280x720 it has the borders I wanted but sadly now I can see my desktop on the top and bottom :D Will I have to set my monitor resolution also, or is this a monitor problem??

You can set a custom Base Resolution for OBS (it's above downscaling). Your monitor is not widescreen, that is the "problem". If you don't want to see your desktop you have to change your desktop resolution and that will either make black borders or stretch the image horribly, it wouldn't be better.

 

[Kharay]

I would suggest simply accepting seeing your desktop, running the game in a 16:9 window and then just being capturing that 16:9 window. For maximum compatibility with Twitch and the best viewer experience.

 

[Sickxx]

Thank you guys so much for the replies. Im just going to buy a new monitor that is 16:9. Its about time. :D