OK. Im one of those people who run their gaming PC as a HTPC in the living room with Xbox One Controllers…Throw stones now.
My issue is, the display aspect ratio output by forza is 16:10, the only problem is that i have a 16:9 1080p plasma TV, so the end result is black borders left and right.
It does not matter what internal resolution i tender to, it will always scale to 16:10. I have tried 1080p and 720p. No change. Tried ultra, high, medium and low settings. Turned various settings on and off, to no avail.
HELP!
I am guessing Forza may have looked at my screens maximum supported resolution of 1920×1200 and set the ratio to 16:10, evrn though the display is running at 1920x1080.
Other than the pillarboxing of the display, the game runs fine on my rig. My only small complaint is lack ofmulti gpu support, or at least the inability of the game to use all 6 gb on my 2 cards, which was supposedly a cake walk for DX12. So i cant run high textures at 1080p on my measly 3gb gddr5 onnone card. Oh. And the lack of asynch. Compute (i assume due to heavy specs on AMD cards)…But value for money…Forza is brilliant. First game to properly support by controllers.
Thanks in advance for advice. Hopefully, even if there us none, my report can help development and bug fixes.
Thankyou for your response. It is very much appreciated.
So I went home to do exactly what you asked, but before i did, I fired up Forza one last time.
Low and behold… the picture was perfect and in the required 16:9 aspect. For some reason, video settings went to low. I increased them to ultra expecting the textures alert i previously received… hope. Looks like 3Gb is just enough for the high resolution textures.
Played the game. Beautiful.
At this time i was in windows with explorer as the shell. Rebooted worth my 10 foot interface as the shell…and class not registered error. Steam and origin work ok, but it seems windows closed store games require explorer as the shell. Pity, i was looking forward to reliving gears of war at 1080p.
Thanks to Microsoft for a great game and providing it for free so that users can test these types of games on their rigs. Ill keep trying to make these games work from steam big picture with kodi launcher as an active shell. If i cant due to coding or DRM protection issues them ill have to give windows store games a miss. I respect Microsoft attempts to lock games down due to piracy. Piracy is the reason why pc gaming has taken a back seat for most developers and drives the complexity in gaming we now have.