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Wow, I can actually play the game now.

I hope the developers read this.....this could be a Steam patch in about two seconds.

Cudos. :)

I use 5670 x 1200 and this works well. I do have my weapon indicator partially hidden behind a bezel, but that might just be my settings.
I,m going to tweak the resolution a bit and try and fix that.

There was some lobbying going on in the steam forums as well, but I'm not aware of the developers reading that.

Thanks for the compliments guys ... I did the fix in a few hours, to be sure a professional would do better and in a few minutes.

Is a shame that the developers leave us without support for something so simple to fix.

Great work coming up with a fix for this. It's nice to see the gaming community step up once again and do the developers' work for them. It's sad that the developers won't take the small amount of time needed to implement this fix. I'm still onthe fence about dropping the money on this game, but the fence is starting to crumble. To me it's mostly a question of will I get my money's worth out of it in terms of game length; I'm tired of paying $50-$60 for games that last less than 10 hours. Being that the game seems to be an open world kind of game I think it will have a good amount of playtime to it.

Does this game require Steam? Not a big concern, I am just wondering if it does or not because I would prefer to get a physical copy of it if it does not require Steam, but if it does require Steam than I see no reason not to just get it on Steam.

Also, does this fix do anything about the giant crosshair issue I am seeing?

Also, does this fix do anything about the giant crosshair issue I am seeing?

One of the screenshots has the Xhair in it, looks like it's normal sized too !

I was wondering man, since it's all the same engine, would you be able to have a go at the Call of Juarez games? They also had the HOR+ but stretched HUD issues .

I'd be willing to gift you one of them on steam to have a go at :)

Oh, and also a revert set of files to go back to default HUD placement would be good :)

I decided the performance issues I was getting were too bad to play in triple wide, drops to 35 FPS in a big fight in the city from peaks of 120 FPS are distracting.

Oh, and also a revert set of files to go back to default HUD placement would be good :)

I decided the performance issues I was getting were too bad to play in triple wide, drops to 35 FPS in a big fight in the city from peaks of 120 FPS are distracting.

Thanks Garden.

I am working on a video showcasing your fix as we speak.

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Also, does this fix do anything about the giant crosshair issue I am seeing?

One of the screenshots has the Xhair in it, looks like it's normal sized too !



Nice, I took a closer look at the screenshots and finally noticed the crosshair, hard to pick since it is indeed normal sized hehe.

Now I am sold, going to have to get it.

The developers dont have and official forum, but ive already lobbied at the dead-island.com forums

The publisher does not have an official forum either, dispite having one for its other titles. When asked about it they simply said:

I'm sorry, but we won't add a section for Dead Island. Thanks for your understanding.

http://forum.deepsilver.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54817#.TmwX9s3CXGg

If you need a place to lobby the steam forums are probably a good place not sure. It seems the most active but that also means your topic gets lost to the abyss very quickly as well and if the devs are not paying mind to the topics there it may not do much good.

The modders thread is super active with many many views and staying on the first page, if I can get a lobby effort spliced into that thread that would work well. At any rate going to try to get my gameplay video put on that thread showing the fix and that will sort of be a "in your face" way of saying look its possible now go make it happen.


Here is the gameplay video I was talking about:
Dead Island Surround Gameplay w/ Gardens Fix

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Thanks, works great. Makes it much more playable and easier to manipulate the Quests, Inventory etc.

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Any way to set the refresh rate to 120Hz? Not sure why the menu only allows up to 100Hz.

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Any way to set the refresh rate to 120Hz? Not sure why the menu only allows up to 100Hz.

Yeah, the file video.scr can be edited to increase to 120. I got it working.

Looks like people are starting to find all sorts of fun stuff in the games files :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoLadZotBuE

Any way to set the refresh rate to 120Hz? Not sure why the menu only allows up to 100Hz.

The developer is European and artificially limited it to that in the menu.

nice. glad to see theres hope for this game yet. It's still not ready, but its certainly getting there. cant wait till its done :D

Looks like people are starting to find all sorts of fun stuff in the games files :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoLadZotBuE

How did I know that video would find its way here lol... Its gone viral.

But what probably surprises me more is how many westerners know what Fist of the North Star is.

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It's been awhile since this came out, I hope somebody is still tinkering with it, can't wait for a finished fix. This game needs it :D

This was working fine for me until todays patch. As of right now with this HUD mod installed I cannot start a game as it crashes to desktop.

Without the hud mod the game is unplayable unless I switch to one screen.

Anyone else have these problems?

Ok, so here is an update. the problem appears to be the file 'MenuUpgradeCharacter.xui' without that file in my "DocumentsDeadIslandoutDataMenuScr" folder the game works fine. Unfortunately I need to switch to single screen setup every time I level in order to choose my character upgrades.

I even tried ripping this file manually from the data.pak files and manually modifying the height/width values: it still crashes.

Anyone offer any assistance? Im using this mod on a 5040 x 1050 eyefinity setup.

Cheers.

Update 2: Fixed. I manually modified the file 'MenuUpgradeCharacter.xui' and set the height/width to match my desktop resolution exactly. This appears to have fixed the problem. Hopefully this will help someone else in the future to make use of this mod.

Thanks a lot for the mod its a really fun game and I would hate to have missed out on my multiscreen setup on it.

I just got the game here in Japan and did the fix and when it gets to the screen where it has the steached pixel picture on load it goes through and crashes to desktop. any ideas as to how to fix this?

Maybe you have the same problem I did? Did you try my fix?

If that fails, try removing half of the files from "DocumentsDeadIslandoutDataMenuScr" and seeing if you can start the game.

If it fails swap the files you removed with the files you left in the folder.

If that works but half of the files removed back in and see if it works.

Keep repeating this process until you find which file is causing the crash (for me it was 'MenuUpgradeCharacter.xui', but it may not be the same file for all we know)

If it works with all but one file then experiment with different screen resolution values on the lines I have highlighted



5040.000000
1050.000000



MenuUpgradeCharacter
5040.000000
1050.000000
true
MenuUpgradeCharacter
MenuUpgradeCharacter



I_Image_2
888.000000
622.000000
88.319992,45.000000,0.000000

until the game stops crashing for you.

I crash at loading screen after hitting contiue or start, if i take menu out of Data file it will load . I havent tracked down which thing under SCR is causing this....its not the MenuUpgradeCharacter.xui....sigh...i hope someone has a fix soon...

That’s the file that keeps crashing me. I tried 5760 x 1080 and it crashes and the original something x 720 crashes. I tried your 50. Ill take the40 x 1050 and crash. If I pull that file out completely I get eyefinity going but the skills page is fubar. I’ll take that but would like to figure what line is causing it. It’s a bit annoying to have to change resolutions to use your upgrade skills page. I'm still appreciative for the great guys out there that come up with all these modifications to help us get the game play we should have. Big 2 thumb’s up for the WSG guys....

:rockout :cheers :rockout :triplewide

That’s the file that keeps crashing me. I tried 5760 x 1080 and it crashes and the original something x 720 crashes. I tried your 50. Ill take the40 x 1050 and crash. If I pull that file out completely I get eyefinity going but the skills page is fubar. I’ll take that but would like to figure what line is causing it. It’s a bit annoying to have to change resolutions to use your upgrade skills page. I'm still appreciative for the great guys out there that come up with all these modifications to help us get the game play we should have. Big 2 thumb’s up for the WSG guys....

:rockout :cheers :rockout :triplewide

That’s the file that keeps crashing me. I tried 5760 x 1080 and it crashes and the original something x 720 crashes. I tried your 50. Ill take the40 x 1050 and crash. If I pull that file out completely I get eyefinity going but the skills page is fubar. I’ll take that but would like to figure what line is causing it. It’s a bit annoying to have to change resolutions to use your upgrade skills page. I'm still appreciative for the great guys out there that come up with all these modifications to help us get the game play we should have. Big 2 thumb’s up for the WSG guys....

:rockout :cheers :rockout :triplewide

The mod worked great until todays patch. For me setting my desktop resolution fixed it but I tried *TONS* of other values before I figured that out. Keep experimenting, or maybe conciser setting your resolution to 5040x1050 both on the file and in game settings to more closely match the working setup I have? Good luck!

Yea the fix has worked great for me up until the new patch. now it just crashes.
Pulling MenuUpgradeCharacter.xui out of the Scr folder fixes it.
But now when i level up i must switch to 1 screen to choose my powerup ><
5760X1080

If you hilight any you can use the arrow keys to move it around and the description is right there in the middle

But please twesk gods give us a new file to downlosd...

funny thing , for me the game works but it acts like the data files arent even there . hope this gets fixed soon .

scratch that , i copied it into the wrong section, i also get crash

if rename or remove the menuupgradecharacter.xui its working . tried editing it to my resolution (6048x1080) but it didnt help.

luckily im quite far in the game so i dont level up that much , so its not so troublesome

I've managed to get past the game crashing similar to markilleruk 's method.

The caveat is you need to open up the Data3.pak from your install directory, go to DataMenuScr (The original fix probably comes from the Data0.pak)
Pull out the MenuUpgradeCharacter.xui
And then replace the numbers with your resolution.
Put it in your OutDataMenuScr

I haven't tested it fully, so there might be more to change... but at least it isn't crashing.

@Haios: could you please post your new file , i dont seem to have the data3.pak

@Haios: could you please post your new file , i dont seem to have the data3.pak

I have gotten the file to work thank god, I freaking love the game, Happy Halloween :)

http://renewsoft.com/deadisland/MenuUpgradeCharacter.rar

You can again tweak the rez to what ever you want. Just drop the file into the C:Users[user name]1DocumentsDeadIslandoutdataMenuScr folder

Enjoy.

Thanks man this is great. My brothers and I love this game and I really appreciate the hard work getting this to play for me. 2 big thumbs up for this from me.... :rockout :rockout :TrueWS

Also works perfectly for me. Thanks!

Thanks you Garden & markilleruk! Was able to realize something was wrong with the game in eyefinity, and a quick search in google, some file transfers, and modifying that file got me up and running! Thank you so much!!!!

all menus work 100% and look correct
load screen is strangely streched across rightr screen
in game res and fov screwed
i tried fix on pg 1 but the files it talks about dont appear in my docs folder plz help game is hardly playable

EDIT i tried fix tool but it requires same files as above wtf ??? why dont i have these files i figured they must be created wafter the first save but no dice arggh!

Hey guys, I hate to grave dig here but I installed this and then changed the MenuUpgradeCharacter.xui to include a resolution of 6048 x 1080 as that is the resolution I am operating at. The only problem is I'm receiving some weird distortion, how can I fix it?



Here is the link if you wnat to view it larger: http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/6649/deadislandgame201206230.jpg

Hey guys, I hate to grave dig here but I installed this and then changed the MenuUpgradeCharacter.xui to include a resolution of 6048 x 1080 as that is the resolution I am operating at. The only problem is I'm receiving some weird distortion, how can I fix it?



Here is the link if you wnat to view it larger: http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/6649/deadislandgame201206230.jpg

The distortion is normal. See here: http://www.wsgf.org/forum/7185/bars-between-screens-and-side-screen-distortion-please-read

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They should add this game to Flawless Widescreen, but I guess it's better than nothing at this point. Thanks for the help, I think I can find a home in these forums pretty easily.

They should add this game to Flawless Widescreen, but I guess it's better than nothing at this point. Thanks for the help, I think I can find a home in these forums pretty easily.

It's a VAC secured title - so it's dangerous to release because people may get banned.

But - by the same token, several VAC and Punkbuster secured games have been fixed without issue to date, suggesting that the types of things changed to fix it for Superwide are typically not scanned/integrity checked, I'll take a peek at some stage, if it can be done without codecaves, new executable material being injected it's "fairly safe"

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Hey Garden great fix but unfortunately for me it just crashes when trying to load the island. I tried making a new game thinking it might fix it but nope no dice. I tried 2400x400, 5760x1200 and 5796x1200 but still crashes. I even installed latest drivers and profiles to see if that worked, NOPE! LOL. I really don't know what the problem is it just crashes when trying to load a save.

Game crashes for me aswell

With the fix.

Hey guys,

I don't know if anybody will need this, since the game is a bit old by now, but anyway I want to share it.

I recently received my copy of Dead Island via a nice humblebundle offer and wanted to play this on my 21:9 screen in 2560x1080. Unfortunately Gardens fix didn't work for me, even with the newer files from data3.pak. So I tried to fix it myself!

I used Gardens files and edited them. I resized the ingame menu, so that you can access all buttons:
unfixed:

fixed:


I realized that the HUD is scaled up if you compare 1920x1080 with 2560x1080:
Normal size HUD in 1920x1080:

Scaled up HUD in 2560x1080:


So I edited the HUD.xui file to rescale and reposition most of the HUD elements:


To install the fix extract the data folder of this archive to:
C:\Users\<username>\Documents\DeadIsland\out
If you want to keep the bigger HUD like shown above, simply delete the hud folder (or don't extract it in the first place)

There are some minor bugs:
- radar content is a bit bigger than the radar backgroundimage (see "!" on the radar in the last 2 images)
- weapon images in the wheelselectionmenu are distorted and to big
- main menu and loading screen show a black bar at the side and are not centered
- level up screen is a bit off to the left (not in the center) <= i actually liked that because u can still see the zombies in your crosshair!
- ..

I did this fix in a few hours and I only care about the ingame experience and not about loading screens (u don't see them too long with nowadays ssds anyway ) So I did not fix everything.
But feel free to report gameplay relevant bugs that I didnt stumble upon yet. (I didnt even finish the first chapter yet!)

greetz,
infest

edit: wsgf gallery is working again... changed the links and also added this fix to the dead island entry

Thread form the dead back again

I pickerd this up on steam and want to get it running at 5960 x 1080. the fix from thge detailed report causes the game to crash. From reading this/other threads I am aware I have to go to C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\DeadIsland\out\Data\Menu\Scr, open MenuUpgradeCharacter.xui, and change the resolution width and height references to suit my setup. Width & height are mentioned numerous times in this fie, can someone please clarify what lines I have to change? I plan to mod infest's file as this does not cause the game to crash when I unzipped his version.

Many thanks in advance.

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I'm having the same problem as dr1v3n, unpack the fix, start the game and the menu's look great but when I hit "continue" to load into the game it crashes.

sorry to bump an old thread, but could somone please reupload http://renewsoft.com/deadisland/MenuUpg ... racter.rar thanks again be much apreciated

Hey sorry about that I have been busy working on my game here is the file let me know if it works I will re install the game tomorrow and try it my self, this is a back up it should work for 5760x1080 or you can mod it your self for other rez.

http://www.corpsesnsouls.com/MGSV/MenuUpgradeCharacter.zip

Just drop the file into the dir C:\Users\[user name]\Documents\DeadIsland\out\data\Menu\Scr\ if you don't have this folder structure just make it in the DeadIsland folder in Documents.

I recently moved to Windows 10 so I have to install everything back and have not gotten around to Dead Island yet, and of course I am hard core busy with working on my game.

i have just tried new patch and can confirm fix works fine on windows 10 64 bit, few of my mates run simuler setups and runs fine on theirs also, running at 5760x1080 resolution, only issue i have noticed is in a multiplayer game, friends player icons seem to be messed up and show up on left monitor,not sure if this can be fixed, but without this fix game would not be playable, thanks again for re uploading fix, its very much aprecaited

I just installed the game, copied the "MenuUpgradeCharacter" files into place, but I get:

Huge crosshair
Huge mini-map on the far right
Huge health bar upper left

I am running 5760x1080, tried editing the hud files from above, but could not figure it out correctly.

UPDATE FIXED:

1) So i figured out how to get it working, downloaded original Garden files from here:

http://www.gamewatcher.com/mods/dead-is ... onitor-fix

Put the folders Hud and Scr in the folder:

.\out\Data\Menu

2) Then to prevent the crash (as this has the older MenuUpgradeCharacter file) downloaded Valcan_s version here:

http://www.corpsesnsouls.com/MGSV/MenuU ... racter.zip

From this zip file, I only took the one file, MenuUpgradeCharacter.xui, and copied it to the folder:

.\out\Data\Menu\Scr
(overwriting).

Whew!

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