The resolution needs to be created / supported by your video drivers before an application would be able to use it. If you're using an NVIDIA card then you should be able to create a custom resolution using its control center. If not, then you'd have to use a third party program like PowerStrip.I'm not sure why you'd want to go out of your way to create black bars though, the image quality would be better if you just used your monitor's native 16:9 resolution.
I didn't like 16x9 either The resolution I put in my cfg, 1440x900.Anyhow, the first time I run the cfg it sets to that, but in windowed mode.I run it AGAIN and it goes fullscreen.Try having it in a separate cfg and run it twice?
I.... have no idea what you just said. But I guess you're talking about using a widescreen monitor since the topic is aspect ratio. Yeah, never really thought about it before but I suppose the squished screen would possibly change aiming performance up and down since monitor aspect ratio basically IS another form of fov. Anyway, if you got widescreen, might as well take advantage of it and use the entire screen rather than forcing black bars on the sides. Seeing more is seeing more. Unless it does some weird shit like my widescreen tube TV that isn't running off of a HD box and it stretches the edges of the picture... which basically you're gonna be doing over the entire screen anyway by using a higher than 90 fov which I'd have to assume you do.
HAHA! I remember back when I was still in EoM, ole Aces&Eights was having trouble and couldn't get a crosshair to display no matter what he tried. I told him to just hop on a server and fire a railgun at something far away then take a sharpie and put an X on the monitor where it hit.
There ya go, any size black bars you want...