Final Fantasy VIII Remastered – Widescreen (Black Bars) Fix

The purpose of this guide is to help users use ReShade and some files to adjust the widescreen coverage of the game images, the values can be changed for different resolutions and can allow some of the black bars to be shown if the user simply wants to keep the vertical or horizontal bars or just reduce them in size.

Other FF VIII Guides:

Installation

Using ReShade! 

Installation Instructions:

First off download ReShade 4.3.0 from reshade.me and launch the exe to install to the game. Browse for FFVIII.exe in SteamsteamappscommonFINAL FANTASY VIII Remastered

Choose OpenGL as the API, you can uncheck all the shaders unless you want to download them. You do need to download at least one effect for it to load at all. I would recommend against having all of them installed because it would be a long load time.

After that’s installed do not run the game yet. download one of these 3 files and unzip them into the game directory.

Downloads

  • For the 1920×1080 Height and Width stretch download this file.
  • For the 1920×1080 Height only stretch download this file.
  • For the 1920×1080 Width stretch only download this file.
  • For those still having trouble try this download.

Screenshots

Before:

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered - Widescreen (Black Bars) Fix

After:

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered - Widescreen (Black Bars) Fix

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