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Moonlight fix for aspect ratio

Is there anyone that found a permanent fix for the aspect ratio issue with moonlight?

The horizontal black bars are very annoying and the only "fix" I found is to go to the PC to manually change the resolution to 1280x800 (16:10) from the Nvidia control panel.. But I mean since I won't use my PC in that resolution and aspect ratio, I would have to do this every single time I want to use moonlight. Seems stupid to have to do this in the first place. I also don't like to put 800p in moonlight settings because that will just stretch the image vertically.

Anyone found some smart solution to this?

UPDATE: This https://github.com/Nonary/ResolutionAutomation/releases/tag/2.0.15_gfe worked very nicely for me. I use 1680x1050 both on the PC and on the deck using the overrides.txt that comes with that application

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Download qres.exe and on sunshine browser tab -> Applications under Command Preparations insert this strings:

Do Command:

C:\qres\QRes.exe /x:1280 /y:800

Undo Command:

C:\qres\QRes.exe /x:1920 /y:1080

C:\qres is path. Sorry for my english.

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Hi thanks for the answer, I saw some posts about what you mentioned but didn't manage to make it work.

In the end I solved with this https://github.com/Nonary/ResolutionAutomation/releases/tag/2.0.15_gfe a script to automatically change resolutions using moonlight directly though nvidia geforce experience. It works very well and it easy to install.

I took all today between this and solving the stutterings (very tricky , with lots of different possible solutions) but now I think i got quite satisfied with the experience :)

BTW your english is fine! also in my case it is my second language

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I run .sh on boot in /home/.Shellscripts/Steamdeck/Configs/Display. I have HDMI dummy plug and stream my desktop from sunshine. 

#!/bin/sh
#set ress 1440p120
sleep 3
xrandr --newmode 2560x1440R  497.25  2560 2608 2640 2720  1440 1443 1448 1525 +hsync -vsync
sleep 3
xrandr --addmode DisplayPort-0 2560x1440R
sleep 3
xrandr --output DisplayPort-0 --crtc 0 --mode 2560x1440R

I also have desktop icon that make default boot session gamescope/kde desktop mode 

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Boots to Gamescope every time
Name=Always Boot to Gamescope
Exec=steamos-session-select gamescope
Icon=steamdeck-gaming-return
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=false

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Boots to Desktop every time
Exec=steamos-session-select plasma-x11-persistent
Icon=steamdeck-gaming-return
Name=Always Boot to Desktop
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application

in shunshine I call steamos-session-select <session name> it switches session when it's booted. sometimes hangs but restart fixes it. After reboot switching to other session works 100% but do it 6 times and it will crash.