How can I play Fatal Frame in full screen without black borders

souravstar · 03-21-2011, 07:06 PM #1

How can I play Fatal Frame in full screen without black borders but without increasing inner resolution. If I set aspect ratio to stretch to window it becomes 4:3 in fullscreen and if I set it 16:3 it shows black borders in fullscreen. My main aspect ratio is set to 16:3 and fullscreen & window resolution is set to 640x480. My Laptop is not very good So I can't increase inner resolution.

Also which is faster with LLE - DirectX11, DirectX9 or OpenGL

**dannzen** · (This post was last modified: 03-21-2011, 07:33 PM by dannzen.)

wii games are mostly in 4:3 ...
there is a function widescreen forcing / hack...
but its glitchy (it means the graphic could bug)

dx9 and dx11 should be the same difference maybe 0-3fps
opengl is slow

kylebisme · 03-21-2011, 10:27 PM #3

Er, most Wii games support 16:9 along with 4:3, Fatal Frame included, no hack needed.

Anyway, Souravstar, just set the fullscreen resolution to your display's native resolution, that doesn't change the resolution the game is rendered at and won't effect the performance at all. Assuming your display is 16:9, the aspect ratio setting under the Wii tab is on 16:9, and the one under the graphics options isn't on force 4:3, and you don't you'll get Fatal Frame in widescreen without any black bars or stretching. Also, not that standard widescreen sixteen by nine, not by three as you typed twice.

souravstar · 03-21-2011, 11:39 PM #4

(03-21-2011, 10:27 PM)kylebisme Wrote: Er, most Wii games support 16:9 along with 4:3, Fatal Frame included, no hack needed.

Anyway, Souravstar, just set the fullscreen resolution to your display's native resolution, that doesn't change the resolution the game is rendered at and won't effect the performance at all. Assuming your display is 16:9, the aspect ratio setting under the Wii tab is on 16:9, and the one under the graphics options isn't on force 4:3, and you don't you'll get Fatal Frame in widescreen without any black bars or stretching. Also, not that standard widescreen sixteen by nine, not by three as you typed twice.

Thanks, I thought that setting fullscreen resolution to max decrease performance.

and sorry for that mistake, I was in hurry. Big Grin

kylebisme · (This post was last modified: 03-22-2011, 01:22 AM by kylebisme.)

I didn't take any offense at your mistake, I just thought it might help you to better understand what you are trying to do.

Anyway, I made a mistake as well, forgetting that the display resolution will actually affect performance with the default EFB scale setting of integral and the fractional setting which I never use. You'll need to set your EFB scale to one of the options with numbers, x1 will be about the same as when you run 640x480 performance wise. Your laptop might get away with x2 though, which I think would be the same as fractional at your desktop resolution, though I've never looked into it enough to be sure.

souravstar · 03-22-2011, 03:04 AM #6

(03-22-2011, 01:21 AM)kylebisme Wrote: I didn't take any offense at your mistake, I just thought it might help you to better understand what you are trying to do.

Anyway, I made a mistake as well, forgetting that the display resolution will actually affect performance with the default EFB scale setting of integral and the fractional setting which I never use. You'll need to set your EFB scale to one of the options with numbers, x1 will be about the same as when you run 640x480 performance wise. Your laptop might get away with x2 though, which I think would be the same as fractional at your desktop resolution, though I've never looked into it enough to be sure.

So, this mean that I have to set that to 1x to not loose performance, right?
Thanks, One of the biggest help I ever got about dolphin. (Maybe it's a simple thing for others)