So I've got an issue, but it only happens with a few games so far....Civ5, Sniper Elite v2, Avatar, a few others I can't recall....Basically, I'll start up the game, it's in fullscreen....and it looks like this http://imgur.com/vSjaLKY
Full disclosure: I run two monitors. A 1680 x 1050 as my main n what I game on, and a 1440 x 900 as a secondary desktop extension to my right (that I DON'T game on). I used to run 1440 x 900. I can't recall exactly when this issue started, it might've been when I started using the 1680 2 or 3 years ago.
My question is...why? I tried asking steam forums a few times, but none of them were able to give me concrete/good answers and/or fixes. I'm hoping maybe you guys can. I can play civ5 in windowed mode, sure. What I've been doing. I got SEV2 to work somehow (Forget how). And today, after a fresh install of avatar for the first time in almost a year...I booted it up n ran it. No crashes like a year ago without error, nothing. Played a few hours, got off.
However...now if I try to boot it up, both my monitors go black, then my game is shifted. If I get it to fit fully on my monitor, then my 2nd monitor goes black*. And don't suggest auto adjust monitor, I tried that. And manual. For Avatar, it doesn't fix the issue. But for other games, it'd realign it...but then after I'm done playing, I'd have to adjust again because its misaligned towards other direction while on my desktop.
Why these games? Why not others? What's the cause? I'd be willing to say its GPU or monitor but...why only those games? Why not any of the ones I run that don't have borderless fullscreen? (I'd run it if I could trust me). And in this case...why didn't it happen the first time I ran avatar?
I'm just honestly left very confused n wondering how do I fix/avoid/identify the issue(s)....I've got hundreds of pc games I play/played, both fullscreen and full screen borderless....theres maybe 5 or 6 top that give me this issue, and I have no idea why
Especially since some of the games are massively popular, and never gave me issue in the past.* = Tried replicating that for avatar, but now every time I do it just goes windowed. The only time it worked, it was quickly stopped/alt tabbed by a windows aero message saying I was out of memory (I get same message for civ5 n 1 or 2 other games if I run them fullscreen. I got it when I used 4 gb of ram, and I have it when I use 8 gb. And my virtual memory has always been appropriately ratio'd so....)
EDIT - Forgot to mention, the display issue is purely to me. If I screenshot or record directly, it comes out looking normal. The black border is treated as if it doesn't even exist and the point where border and video screen meet is the new "edge" of the monitor.