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Rickard 25 Dec, 2022 @ 7:40am
Black borders solved by "native" resolution, any way to make native resolution the default?
I just got my Dock, connected it to a fairly normal 1080p TV, went through the software updates. More or less all games run in a "window" centered on the TV with big black borders. It seems the dock feeds the TV 1080p, but the games think "fullscreen" is 780p and the result is a centered square with huge black borders. In the in-game settings 780p is the max.

So, I found out that one can go into the steam settings for every specific game where one can set the resolution between "default", "native", and a bunch of specific resolution settings; and "native" always does the trick so the game runs in 1080p in fullscreen.

Am I missing something? -- why isn't "native" already the default? Is there a way to change the default to "native" so I don't have to set it on every game? I've gone through the global external screen resolution options, and nothing seems to do the trick.
Last edited by Rickard; 25 Dec, 2022 @ 7:43am
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Twerkteam Pizza 10 Jun @ 6:58pm 
getting this too, a year and a half later
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nix 20 Jun @ 3:59pm 
Ditto. The first thing I do when buying things is always to flip the res to Native. It appears to do no harm when rendering to the internal screen, though I suppose some games that expect the res never to change might get confused.
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Rickard 10 Jul @ 3:47pm 
Indeed, it would make so much more sense if "Native" was the default, and this setting was used for individual games that for some reason cannot handle that.
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ReBoot 10 Jul @ 9:23pm 
Native isn't the default as renderinf FHD is way more demanding, than rendering HHD and the Deck's already kinda strained for resources. And suddenly losing half of your performance isn't exactly an easy sell, especially for console-minded folk whom the Deck is also kinda directed at. That said, you can use a 16:9 resolution without losing half of your performance. If you care about that half, that is. Plants vs .Zombies wouldn't care if you half or quarter your Deck's performance.
Last edited by ReBoot; 10 Jul @ 9:32pm
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Prezidentas 11 Jul @ 12:45am 
Originally posted by ReBoot:
Native isn't the default as renderinf FHD is way more demanding, than rendering HHD and the Deck's already kinda strained for resources.
lmao stop making up resolution abbreviations.
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ReBoot 11 Jul @ 1:10am 
Originally posted by Prezidentas:
Originally posted by ReBoot:
Native isn't the default as renderinf FHD is way more demanding, than rendering HHD and the Deck's already kinda strained for resources.
lmao stop making up resolution abbreviations.
"HalfHD" and "FullHD" aren't made up, my dear.
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Prezidentas 11 Jul @ 1:26am 
Originally posted by ReBoot:
Originally posted by Prezidentas:
lmao stop making up resolution abbreviations.
"HalfHD" and "FullHD" aren't made up, my dear.
720p is HD, no clue what are you talking about with made-up nonsense like "HalfHD"
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ReBoot 11 Jul @ 1:35am 
Originally posted by Prezidentas:
Originally posted by ReBoot:
"HalfHD" and "FullHD" aren't made up, my dear.
720p is HD, no clue what are you talking about with made-up nonsense like "HalfHD"
While digging this one up, I found that I have no clue why I should put up with that infantile hostility.
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nix 11 Jul @ 2:33am 
Presumably "Native" doesn't render at 1080p to the internal screen ever, though?
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ReBoot 11 Jul @ 6:45am 
Originally posted by nix:
Presumably "Native" doesn't render at 1080p to the internal screen ever, though?
That wouldn't be native. If you want a specific non-native resolution, don't pukc "native", pick that resolution.
Last edited by ReBoot; 11 Jul @ 7:34am
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Prezidentas 11 Jul @ 7:27am 
Originally posted by nix:
Presumably "Native" doesn't render at 1080p to the internal screen ever, though?
native will limit gamescope resolution to the currently used display.
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