Question / Help OBS, cant stretch out image

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Hveding

New Member
Hey.
I been using OBS for a week now.
Everythings working great!
But when i run Counter-Strike GO with OBS, i cant stretch out the image like i can with other games.
I use 1024*768 and aspect ratio 4:3, this makes too black areas on the right and left side of the screen ingame, but this goes over to OBS to. When i stretch it out it just make the whole picture bigger in OBS.

If i use 16:9, whatever resolution the ingame screen will cover up the whole window in OBS.

Here's a screenshot of OBS.
If i right klick on GAMECAPTURE, then klick propertise og chose "stretch image to screen", the window in OBS goes black.
I use fullscreen mode in CS GO, no idea if thats the problem here.. But i hate playing in windows mode because windows mode FORCE the game to a smaller window, even if i chouse fullscreen window mode because of the aspect ration 4:3.


screen cap

Hope someone can help me a little here.
And sorry for my bad English!

-Hveding
 
ThoNohT

ThoNohT

Developer
Everything you said made sense. I don't know what the problem is though. For general information on aspect ratio, I suggest you read this topic: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4233

If you want to stream at a 4:3 aspect ratio, it's best to set your base resolution to the resolution of the game. But why don't you want to play the game on a 16:9 resolution, as that will also fill your entire screen?
 
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Hveding

New Member
Aha, i will. Thanks.

Playing with 4:3 in CS beceuase i have benn doing that since 2006 when i played 1.6, so converting to 16:9 is like leaving CS for good, hehe.
Just hope i could stretch the game screen out in OBS.
 
ThoNohT

ThoNohT

Developer
You can stretch a source, but it will look godforsaken awful. If you really want to fit a 4:3 game on a 16:9 stream, you can use resize while holding shift, this will ignore aspect ratio locks.

However, there are two much preferrable alternatives:
1. use a 4:3 base resolution, then the entire stream will be in 4:3. This will cause black bars in the twitch vod player, but that's simply due to the fact that their video player has a 16:9 aspect ratio. When viewed fullscreen on a 4:3 screen it nicely fits the entire screen.

2. Use the 16:9 base resolution, but just fill the black bars with something nice, i.e. a nice background, statistics, webcam or chat.
 
ThoNohT

ThoNohT

Developer
That's why I said it's awful. I'm actually on a 4:3 screen here. If you'd changed the base resolution, I'd have been able to watch that in fullscreen. Now I see a stretched video that fills only part of my screen :P
 
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