Dead Island

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Dead Island is a first person horror action-adventure video game developed by Techland. It is centered on the challenge of survival on a zombie-infested open world island with a major emphasis on melee combat. The game features open world gameplay, with up to four-player co-operative play in a heavily interactive environment, focusing on incorporating customizable weaponry, vehicular customization/combat, and RPG elements.

Support Summary

Widescreen
Ultra/Super‑Wide
Multi-Monitor
4K Ultra HD
Support
Method
HUD
Cutscenes
FMVs

Game Information

Game Status:Released
Release Date:
Tested Version:Steam
Play Styles:
Setting:Horror
Genre:FPS
Developer:Techland

Screenshots Comparison

4:3 Screenshot
16:10 Screenshot
16:9 Screenshot
21:9 Screenshot
32:9 Screenshot
Eyefinity / Surround Screenshot
Solutions & Issues
Widescreen Solution & Issues:

Native support. You can also edit "Video" at C:\Users\...\Documents\DeadIsland\out\Settings, using Notepad, and set the resolution, if its not listed in the game menu (i.e. for 1440x900) :

Resolution(1440,900)

Ultra/Super-Wide Specific Solution & Issues:

Only problem screwing this game from working properly in 21:9 is the Menu stretching behavior which makes the buttons on top and bottom inaccessible. I made a fix that resizes the Menu and HUD by editing the eyefinity fix from garden. Works with latest version on Steam (v1.3.0):

Fix available from the PC Gaming Wiki Community Files (search there).

The fix is optimized to work with a resolution of 2560x1080

There are some minor bugs in main menu, loading screens, radar content, little distorsion in selectwheel,... but still well playable.

Eyefinity / Surround Specific Solution & Issues:

HUD and crosshair scale according to the aspect ratio - the wider, the larger. Menus are Vert-, consequently some options cant be accessed using the mouse cursor, at multi-mon resolutions. But you can fix these 2D elements by using the solution described at [i]Multi-Monitor Specific Solution[/i] below...

Thanks to Garden for this multi-monitor HUD and Menu solution...

Fix available from the PC Gaming Wiki Community Files (search there). And extract the "Data" folder into the "out" folder in the following path: "Documents \ DeadIsland \ out"

Then just start the game and be happy. Works perfectly in 5040x1050, unfortunately I did not test other resolutions, but I believe it should work.

4:3 Screenshot
16:10 Screenshot
16:9 Screenshot
21:9 Screenshot
32:9 Screenshot
Eyefinity / Surround Screenshot
4:3 Cutscene
16:10 Cutscene
16:9 Cutscene
21:9 Cutscene
Eyefinity / Surround Cutscene
4:3 FMV Cutscene
16:10 FMV Cutscene
16:9 FMV Cutscene
21:9 FMV Cutscene
Eyefinity / Surround FMV Cutscene
4:3 Menu
16:10 Menu
16:9 Menu
21:9 Menu
Eyefinity / Surround Menu
15:9 Resolutions:1280x768
16:9 Resolutions:
Ultra/Super-Wide (21:9/32:9) Resolutions:2560x1080
Eyefinity / Surround Resolutions: