I have a large RP 4:3 HDTV and my Xbox is set up to support all modes of hi-def and this has never caused a problem before, but with this one game the xbox tries to display it in widescreen and puts bars on the top and bottom, but then also gives me bars on the sides and the image is 4:3 but inside a black box... pointless. How do I fix this?

Very odd. What brand TV do you have?

I can't recall offhand, but I think if you run it at 1080i it is 'enhanced for widescreen tv's' but it cannot do a full 16:9 picture, so instead it window boxes it on 4:3 tv's, or on 16:9 tv's it will just show bars on the sides.

Is this Soul Calibur 2.

I am guessing, yes, since Trigger said it was on the Xbox, and SC1 wasn't.

I think this is normal for SC2. It has no wide screen mode but is 720p I think. So yeah nothing wrong with your TV it was the way they made it.

Don't run the game in 720p turn it off and then see if it will full the screen.

yeah, you need to disable 720p. it's pretty lame.

Yep, it's "normal" for SC2. I noticed the same thing when I played SC2 on my Sony 4:3 in 720 or 1080.

*headslap*

That's lame... thanks for telling me about it. Does it look crappy if you turn off the 720? They should really put a warning on the box.

The difference between 480p and 720p with Soul Calibur II is not that dramatic. It will run in widescreen at 480p.

it's just annoying to switch just for the one game to get it widescreen.

if they weren't going to do it properly, they shouldn't have even included it.

That's how I feel.

I was kind of bummed when it didn't go 16x9 in 720p mode. It still looks fantastic though.