Definitive Stretched Res Guide for Apex Legends | CRU Display Scaling | no Black Bars | ADVANCED

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

Please only attempt this if you are an advanced user capable of troubleshooting. My previous guide on GPU scaling with Nvidia Control Panel is much simpler: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIrLdJippLBjeLM You will likely need a displayport cable rather than an HDMI. Most black screen issues can be resolved with the resetall.exe file or by plugging your monitor into another port on the GPU with an HDMI cable (will be considered as a separate display)

[@BookAndVlogs]

yo im stuck on black screen do u have a discord or something to help me?

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

Display scaling is not supported on most G-Sync module monitors (G-Sync compatible monitors may be supported) and may not be supported on 360 Hz monitors. Refer to my previous guide on GPU scaling with Nvidia for those cases: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIrLdJippLBjeLM

[@mrpandazz]

Yooo! is there possible to play 1:1 res? for example 1080 x 1080 since it doesnt seem to function properly atleast not for me

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

@@mrpandazz don't know why it didn't work, but it's literally one of the examples I showed

[@mrpandazz]

@@LOBOTOMYtv yes I know that’s why o was wondering, when I apply 1080 x 1080 it doesn’t allow me to alt enter so it’s no black bars

[@freegamers97]

this is the only tutorial that works for AMD users(date 10 jan 2023) gg bro and thanks so much!!!

[@MyViibez]

this video saved my life and cs2 gameplay. thank you so much as i couldnt get nvidia control panel to accept gpu scaling. no matter what i did the scaling mode would revert to display anytime i confirmed the changes. thanks again

[@VorxX14]

Bro thank you so much! Been looking for this!

[@basedr1ck]

so my monitor not display scaling with 1440x1080 is that just with 1440x1080 or my monitor cant display scale at all I think it just cant display scale because i tried 1632x1080 and my desktop and active signal mode matched but I still had black bars

[@Leng_AL]

FYI for AMD users. It's way better to use CRU than the Adrenalin software. I use to make my custom resolutions on the Adrenalin software, but for some reason it always looked super bad. The stretched res' always looked too pixelated and blurry on Apex. That's what always put me off from using stretched res. I assume that Adrenalin forces the gpu to scale instead of the display, even when you checked the option for it not to do that. Anyways my game looks way clearer now after using CRU, even when I use very low resolutions like (ie 1280x1080). Currently my main res is 1440x1080 and it looks great. Anyways killer tutorial

[@legitsu_]

This guy is a informed gamer

[@calmchorgamingg]

when I choose the apply res , displayed on 9:05 , ,my screen goes blank and doesnt show anything and stays that way !!

[@liquidz9516]

I had done literally every step except that when i changed my display ratio to 1440:1080 i didnt have black bars i had it streched. Then i went down to more settings and changed to 143 hz and it changed to both no problem. But when i go in apex legends i stilk have the black bars up top and under... Please help

[@Prospections21]

do alt enter 2 times

[@iNightxx]

awesome man thank you only tutorial that worked for me on AMD

[@loophole6969]

thx soooo muchh!! been trying to do this on amd for months now

[@penyu0u]

Hi men. I hope you see my comment. Your video is the only video that worked for me. And now you have a special place in my❤.

[@exotiq9180]

bro i love u soo much i was getting mad cause of the black screen but u helped me thank u soo much

[@leavei252]

is it js me or my monitor not Turing back on

[@Kushtrim-bm9nh]

Finally something that worked, thank you !

[@NathanUllmannGames]

for mine it says my monitor is 60 hz but its 165? ( and yes ive gone through window and nvidia settings )

[@yellowlemonmothfreak]

Did you end up finding out why it's very late LOL

[@haboo6077]

personally i am using 1792x1064 which is 16:9.5 res. thanks for the guide

[@dantesucks]

Everything is good apart from the fact that Im still getting black bars on Apex, any tips or troubleshooting ideas?

[@Valentin439]

Thanks dude helped me a lot

[@nykz2358]

Holy shit man 1568 is literal god res. Thank u so much.

[@A1RSU]

This was very useful thank you so much

[@rio1408]

Thanks I like switching res to make the game more fun :)

[@avuci]

i followed the steps perfectly and it didnt work :/

[@bricevin1276]

plz help me it made my pc have a black screen so now im on my phone

[@filip2537]

i did everything but in my monitor settings its not showing me my refresh rate help pls

[@MrCheesyLV]

for some unknown reason when i play streched res the game caps my fps at 116. can someone help?

[@AnxiousLooter]

Also. I set up everything for 1728x1080 and it works great all is good and matching. But when I launch apex, first the game glitches out, the it stretches. But then my monitor is telling me it’s running 1920x1080 144hz when In game it’s saying 1728x1080. Why is that? My monitor fully supports 240hz and that’s what I set it at in cru. Why does the monitor say that?

[@hypnotic_o]

bc you actually have to change your resolution outside of the game

[@sinkscheese1168]

As soon as i clicked restart my screens went grey and wouldn’t turn on, i reset 7 times moving around the screens to different ports and finally got to one of my screens, wtf is this.

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

run the reset all program

[@petermanbam]

@@LOBOTOMYtv yea the screens are fucking black

[@mjvx]

same bro help

[@extasc3641]

nooice thx so much worked for me : )

[@123randoman]

What res is good for a 2560x1440p monitor? Just watched another video who recommended 2304x1440p. I think it still looks good since it is close to native, but not sure if it is actually stretched enough to make a difference.

[@vaiantic794]

1920x1440

[@hypnotic_o]

1920x1440

[@lllSavitarlll]

Oof, black screened for me. Not sure why. Tried a few different things but no luck. I reverted through safe mode. Guess I’ll do it through nvidia control panel, I’m curious why “display” doesn’t actually use display scaling and what the added latency is. How much does using CRU improve image quality? Wondering how much its worth figuring out what’s wrong

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

it comes down to hardware essentially. if you have an official gsync monitor (not just compatible) then instead of a display scaler you have a gsync module you probably should use for smoothest experience and in those cases you're not adding any appreciable latency to also do the scaling pass driver side. If your monitor has its own display scaler that will always be slightly lower latency and better quality because its even lower level than the display driver and quite likely your monitor would already be doing some kind of scaling if this is the case. As for why choosing display in nvidia control panel doesnt actually work that's because uhhh nope I got nothing. Maybe its a compatibility thing and some hardware display scalers do work, maybe it does work for scaling at the same aspect ratio but not for stretched res, its been a while since I made this so I can't recall if I found an answer on that, but I know the behavior hasnt really changed with driver updates on my end

[@GIBBYGLUCKGLUCK]

Thank you for the guide, really helpful! How are you able to stream without the side black bars? I've tried everything but I cannot get my stream to properly be stretched, but the game itself is perfect

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

select your game capture in obs and press control+s

[@GIBBYGLUCKGLUCK]

@@LOBOTOMYtv it stretches my screen on my obs, but the stream itself still has black bars :( my viewers see it with black bars but my obs doesn't show that. Did you change your output resolution at all in obs? your stream looks great

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

@@GIBBYGLUCKGLUCK do 1536x864p output

[@GIBBYGLUCKGLUCK]

@@LOBOTOMYtv thanks for the help man, having my base(canvas) and output(scaled) as 1920x1080 but playing on 1653x1080 and stretching the source in my OBS ended up working

[@del_6]

@@LOBOTOMYtv Im kinda in the same issue. but I am recording not streaming. i set both my base & output as 1920x1080. game runs fine on gaming pc but when i record I still get those black borders on the side. I try to stretch res on OBS but still the same

[@yellowlemonmothfreak]

You I found that you can actually make the fov just ludicrously High by setting your desktop and monitor resolution to an insanely wide aspect ratio like 43:10 with 2560 by 590. It's straight up looks like you have a 180° fov it's detrimental

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

yeah its not useful at all tho

[@oasisnova]

is there a reason in your last guide you recamended fullscreen in nividia, then in this one you recamend aspect ratio, and in both you give the same reason as to why to use it? 😎🤨

[@italyhascomp]

learned my mistake next time always watch through before doing it

[@InFlamesOfSorrow]

Hey there! Everything works for me except for one thing... it doesnt show "recommended" after i changed the resolution... is that a problem? everything else seems ok!

[@Louisyea12]

Hello Lobo, Idk if you can help me with that, but my display is overclocked to 180hz and in CRU it shows just the "normal" 144 hz what should I do?

[@1rvnge]

real quick when i have the option to chose the monitor in CRU (1st step) i see my monitor twice, one says (active) and other just says the monitor, the active one has no resolutions but 1920x1080 @ 239 hz and the other one that doesnt say active has like alot of resloutions. which do i chose and why is there 2??

[@xz-void_-v5033]

thanks works :)

[@kishichiki]

doesn''t work for me, idk, Ive done all steps and 1280x960 with black vertical bars .-. WTFF help pls

[@PatDuke_]

Hey , I've done everything correctly, everything matches to your settings , I am however noticing in apex legends I get this like wave like screen tearing. I capped my fps to 239 , to see I'd that would fix it but it did not. It doesn't happen constantly but it does happen a good bit. It only started after using cru. I previously just used nvidia for stretched res

[@hypnotic_o]

hey lobo, this is a random question but do you know what the 1080p equivalent of 2134 x 1440 would be? if i’m doing the math right, I think it would be 1600 x 1080 (actually 1600.5 x 1080)? I just found the ratio of 2134/1440 then multiplied that by 1080. thanks lobo

[@hypnotic_o]

I assume I can’t use a resolution with decimal with CRU.

[@12fa1]

I did all these steps with the 2134x1440 but I still have black bars up and down, you know what might be?

[@lankyman5313]

This method works but for me it’s not working properly, my screen has a massive colour spurt where the pixels glitch out in a random and very bad manner which is unfortunate, I can see that the screen stretches but it glitches out a lot (I use a laptop btw)

[@cacullamiercale591]

i got the cru working but in game it changes my hz from 240hz to 144hz, i did and redid all the steps, i dont understand why im getting only 144hz and super slow tabbing if i have the same res in windows, it only happens to me ingame, can someone help me?

[@phoenix3718]

My main monitor (MSI Optix G27C2 144hz)doesn’t have a full wide option and my asus 75 hz does.... bruh. Does DP port and HDMI make a difference as to why or is it just the monitor that doesn’t support it itself?

[@kb-7975]

Some cables don’t support certain hz and settings

[@prynce9]

Thanks

[@jemmyjemmy6259]

thank you soooo much

[@sadlysober2219]

my autoexec file is gone ? i mustve done something a while back what can i do to get the file

[@toxicgenrush3466]

wow I almost broke my computer following this tut trying to get stretch res on dbd

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

There's nothing you can do with CRU that can't be reverted easily and tbh you probably didn't follow my steps correctly if it went that badly

[@shqoz5761]

my native fps on the cru says its 60hz despite it being a 165hz monitor and showing 164.60 in the display settings menu?

[@aidanchasman9857]

my monitor is stuck in power save+black screen how do i fix thid

[@Zvxny666]

Any reason why it won’t let me select 240hz on my 1440p monitor?

[@Vaexzy]

Followed the steps everything seems fine but once i launch the game in 1680x1050 i still have black bars. any idea why?

[@bules12]

My monitor is 144Hz (lg, aspect ratio is set as full width on the monitor), and when I change the Hz as you do, the black bars doesn't dissapear :(

[@bules12]

Fix: Nvidia settings => change resolution => 1444x1080 => adjust desktop size and position => fullscreen => perform scaling on: GPU And that's it, you should get stretched

[@Envi232]

@@bules12 thanks man

[@maxwellmorris9189]

ok so i just streched as far as 900 by 1080 with 50 fov and it was dope so low to the ground i also just went to 21 by 9 130 fov and that was ever more dope i laser

[@Petar321_GT]

thanks!

[@vividaseye]

my problem is that i cant get it to windowed mode when alt tabbing

[@maracuus]

when i try to change my settings from high to lowest it makes the black bars come back any fix?

[@wrymi244]

You can't change setting or it will reset the res

[@sergioalmeida_]

Hey, whenever I go fullscreen with Alt enter, the screen goes black and it doesn’t change, only changes if I go windowed mode

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

are you able to change your desktop to the resolution you're trying to play at with no issues? If so that's very odd but one workaround could be to use dx12 apex and change your desktop res before launching the game (my newest video covers this method)

[@PreviewsMusicales]

Benq xl2411p support display scalling? On 1920 x 1080p 144hz?

[@NSX79]

30:26 old first person view games be like: bdw thanks for the video, worked for me

[@eupvpcontent733]

Is this posbile to do 1440x1080 for 75hz pls help

[@steaddyslabbin]

i have a 240hz 1440p monitor but it wont let me do 240hz it keeps setting me back to 144 anyone have an idea why?

[@lliam3871]

If i run the scalling mode on no scalling the forced display scalling works

[@GladiatorCez]

so, what happens if you installed this ages ago with the custom resolution and saved in display properties but don't have CRU anymore, how do I revert this? I can't enable 144hz on regular 1920x1080

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

just redownload cru and run reset-all I guess

[@GladiatorCez]

@@LOBOTOMYtv yeah sorted it out, thx a lot

[@winniethepopopo]

On me it shows my Res 2560x1440 but only on 60Hz?! But i set my Monitor on Display settings on 240Hz. What can i do, thst it shows my Monitor with 240hz and not 60hz🤔

[@EngageMk8]

Same issue. Did you ever figure it out?

[@maxwellmorris9189]

what fov is 1152 bt 1080 man?

[@AnxiousLooter]

So i set mine up to do 1728x1080. and all is wworking great! but do i have to set my res to that before i open apex? or can i set it to 1920 and open apex and still have stretch with true display scailing?

[@fujster]

why ask why not just try

[@s6e9b27]

Hey this was working fine for like 2 months then I was messing with it one day and it reset everything including in game picture settings and now when I do all the steps I still get black bars and It says 1920x1080 is still the native res

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

I would just clean install your graphics driver and start over from scratch

[@grievxus]

is there a way to alt tab without the lag and black screen in between?

[@5ukuna99]

I pressed the restart.exe and now my whole screen is black, how do i fix this

[@thevertexstudio]

did u fix it? cause i’m having same problem

[@jinn9700]

Does the screen go black then after a little time goes back to normal?

[@arikowidtrash7074]

how about on laptop? active signal reso is not changing

[@gamemechanic8950]

how can i make it look this stretched? When i play 1728x1080 it doesnt look stretch like it used to, it just looks like 1920x1080, please help

[@hypnotic_o]

use different resolutions than 16:10 lol

[@kingark5820]

i cant change my hz for some reason it wont let me

[@liquidz9516]

I tried it on my 144 hz monitor woth CRU and i put my second refresh rate to 143.99 but it still doesnt show up when in display details. Please help

[@sunpay5641]

same thing do u found the solution? pls

[@TheMazGi]

The video CFG is not saving the changes for some reason... Is there anyone who knows how to fix this?

[@j2smovee418]

any fix for when i click out of apex my screens go black for a bit

[@yellowlemonmothfreak]

You play on full screen windowed

[@j2smovee418]

@@yellowlemonmothfreak it says fullscreen on apex.

[@yellowlemonmothfreak]

I mean borderless windowed. If you need to stay in full screen you might be able to remove the black screen and freezing after all tabbing with Nvidia profile inspector tool and disable mock switch if you are using a laptop with a GPU and on board graphics from the CPU and then you also configure the performance mode to be multi-windowed you turn off any full screen oriented g-sync options and you make them all Global or full screen and windowed modes. This requires Nvidia GPU

[@yellowlemonmothfreak]

@@j2smovee418 did KZbin Just promote the video to you? Like in a recommendation

[@cypackfn]

wont work to press alt+enter

[@Deski76226]

I can get it to force 1440x1080 but then if I try setting the desktop back to 1920x1080 it has these disgusting blue lines

[@schiggy5219]

I have the problem That when I am doing this steps i have like 60hz in games and Its Not smooth…..can somebody please help me

[@friscofatseas5696]

same shit for me

[@renzue1311]

im booting into a black screen anything i can do?

[@eupvpcontent733]

@LOBOTOMYtv can u pls answer me is it still posible to do 1440x1080 in apex legends in 2024 pls bro

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

yeah

[@eupvpcontent733]

@@LOBOTOMYtv can u pls make short vid about it bcs what ever i try i get blackbars

[@carsonstrickland484]

is this bannable i wanna use it but i dont really wanna get banned

[@leviackerman4217]

Can you do similar thing with dbd cuz after update there are top and bot black bars that prevent using anything else than 16:9, there was a one method with engine.ini Command after update and it worked but got patch very fast.

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

idk anythign about dbd but theres probably a way

[@acheeoo]

when i try switching to 1440 when it says recommended it goes black and a box saying out of range comes up on my monitor, any help?

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

hdmi or displayport cable? If you're using displayport, your monitor doesn't support display scaling and you should just follow my other guide in the description to do gpu scaling. If you're using an hdmi cable, switching to display port could fix it

[@acheeoo]

alright thank you, much appreciated

[@georgeroz2474]

how i can calculate the fov of valorant "103" and go in apex and put the actual fov ?

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

you can use the provided source engine fov calculator and put 103 in the desired FOV section

[@tema6821]

Hey! was having an Issue on 1728x1080, In game when its full screen I'm getting some bad screen tearing and it do-sent seem very smooth (I have a Ben q 240hert monitor) When I switch it to borderless window the screen tearing and hertz issue goes away but the input lag is pretty bad. Was wondering if you know what the issue might be

[@twices]

did you figure it out?

[@hypnotic_o]

borderless window mode is the problem

[@h3lixbloom]

If I use 1680x1050 in the game settings, but not actually setting it up like you in the video using cru, etc., will I have more input lag and other cons?

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

it looks significantly worse if you don't use cru. difference is actually night and day on my monitor but it won't always be the case

[@h3lixbloom]

@@LOBOTOMYtv ended up comparing the two scenarios, definitely was night and day. when I was on 1920x1080, but only using 1680x1050 in game, it was laggier and looking like shit. Felt like I was hitting so many shots though on the shittier version which makes zero sense lol.

[@brawlcentral147]

after i hit alt enter my screen goes black

[@chainz9616]

runnning 1600x1080 but I have black bars on top and bottom

[@ainox1979]

this is useless for 16:10 1680 1050 right? :D i'm really comfortable with 1680 1050 but it's hard to see enemies, graphics are pretty bad..

[@ainox1979]

tested this for 16 10, 1680 1050, got the same quality as prior, still looks awfull, looking for 1680 1050, but just to get better graphics..

[@2kata]

idk my monitor gets stuck on 144hz when i go ingame. seems to work fine when im on the desktop though (240hz).

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

try -refresh 240 as a launch option and in nvcp set refresh rate to highest available

[@2kata]

@@LOBOTOMYtv nvcp already on 240, and i had -freq 240, so idk. guess i give up.

[@brycevieira5262]

same did u ever find the fix mine is 144hz on desktop and 120 in game

[@2kata]

@@brycevieira5262 nah i gave up after it made my pc black screen twice. but i was gonna give it another go.

[@2kata]

@@brycevieira5262 well, i don't know if this is even the same issue this time, but my game was getting the wrong hz, so i made the hz lower in cru 237 instead of 240 and put -freq 237 in launch options now it works. also my mouses polling rate was quartered for some reason.

[@sguez1]

Does anybody else get minimized apps when they alt tab out of apex? (im using 1650x1050 on my 1920x1080 monitor) It gets really annoying to deal with.

[@hypnotic_o]

change your monitor res to 1680 x 1050 too, your game will always close when u click on another monitor too

[@ikrammalikzada5109]

Bro can you tell me what is FPS counter

[@SH4NMU]

W

[@edoardosangiorgi2443]

Did this get patched? I get to the point were I manage to get the res and signal resolution both to 1920 1440, the change the config file and to the alt enter process yet I still get the black bars after alt entering

[@LOBOTOMYtv]

not patched. double check your launch options. Steam sometimes clears those

[@edoardosangiorgi2443]

@@LOBOTOMYtv im assuming it wasnt working because im rolling with a gsync compatible monitor used yhe other vid linked in the description and got It to work. Thanks king ❤

[@penyu0u]

Im a dumbass. This vid worked for me And i messed around with cruand now icannot have a stretch full screen res

[@yilvaa8223]

I won't let me use my main monitor anymore

[@pisicare7491]

It help me a loot thx