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Saw this is on sale on Steam and decided to download the demo first. Eyefinity doesn't seem to work at all. I set for 5760x1080 and only the middle monitor is used, the 2 side ones are blank. When I set it to windowed, it shows that it's 5760 across, but only rendering the middle display.

Did I miss a setting to get it to work?

Just wanted to mention to any folks who might be on the fence about this one.

I bought the game shortly after release. Hayden's fix worked perfectly. But game performance was so bad, I didn't play it.

There was a performance patch in December. I can attest, that on my system, in areas where I was getting 30 fps, I'm getting 60. I haven't dipped below 57 anywhere so far, several hours in. The opening scene with the rain is a good test. I used to get mid 30s here, now 60 (I force a cap with afterburner). Microstuttering is still an issue however, but overall performance is waaaay better than the release build, and I'm enjoying it now

Despite the patch, Hayden's fix still works perfectly, except I have to choose "windowed" in game, and use game companion to force borderless windows. Don't know why that's required, but it works.

I'm also using nvidia inspector with the settings listed on PCgamingwiki. Don't know if it's making a big difference, but it seems better (placebo?)

Surround 5888x1080, GTX 980sc SLI, i7 3770k @4.4

Just a heads up guys. The latest update that released today has broken the Flawless Widescreen plugin for The Evil Within. It is now outputting the following error code:

Configure function call for the attached process failed, retrying in 26 seconds...

Last Error:
Could not find LetterBoxFix2 injection point, The Evil Within may have updated to a version that is no longer supported.

Try restarting The Evil Within or selecting a different version and re-enable the fix.

/sigh

Another game that I will have to wait on now. Frustrating that the developers don't support this resolution as native and we have to fly on updates with FW to fix the issues.

Look forward to getting the updated fix as I really love this game especially in 21:9.

This game has been released quite a long time ago.
Not sure Hayden will want or have enough time to fix that.
He said he's already spent a lot on it.
Instead, could it be possible to downgrade the .exe of the game to a prior version and have it working this way?

So i managed to roll back to the previous update by replacing these two files.
evilwithin.exe (31648 kb)
and base\common.tangoresource file (42661 kb)

As any other files could have been updated i don't know if any flaw could happen but at least the game is starting wide screen.

Good find, where did you manage to source these previous files from?

Cheers

Hope this gets updated as the DLC is massive amount of content & coming in a few days now on 10th March.

How did you roll back these two files?

Massive thanks to HaYDen he has now fixed the plugin so its working again!

HaYDeN.....legends.....good work buddy and thankyou

i meant to come here sooner and say thanks but i am here now to report a trouble.

was working fine prior 2 days ago, then i updated the plugin stupidly with out first backing up my files or updating my archive of flawlesswidescreen with the plugin i had working included and now i have an error


i tried doing an extensive google search for an older plugin and i get similar errors with an older one



if some kind person that was wise enough to avoid the very latest plugin update the one prior to FWS_plugin.fws version 2.1.85 rev 4 going live and can post a link so i can download what i need to run the older plugin, would be much appreciated.

i cannot play this with any other version out there on the web that are floating around because they all crash otherwise i would have the option of switching out and using a different version of evilwithin.exe but i cannot. i crash with every one i tried except the one i am using now which is the ALi213 files. dont hate i did not steal this game i am simply using the exe as a workaround for the crashing.

-PS to the maker of flawlesswidescreen, would be great if there was a rollback option for when updated plugins get pushed live and break something, that those users can rollback to the version they had when everything was working. thanks

Latest plugin works fine with the new patch you need to go to Steam & update the game its 2 patches totalling 10.1Gb as the DLC # 1 came out today.

so, it works for you therfore theres no problem and i am just dreaming or no on the plugin before last update?

i am not about to download any DLC or update, i am lucky it plays without crashing as is, im just asking for the plugin before this last update, which i know worked. if that is not something that can be provided then just say so.

Doesn't work for me, I just get this error message over and over

c_HackTool - Failed to open process, error code = 5.

I only just got the game, so I don't know if it is an update that broke it or what.

As I said before if you legit own the game Steam will patch it twice then the latest FWS works just fine as it should! Steam auto patches nowadays there is no way to disable that anymore so I can only assume if it does not patch you either:

1: Do not own the game legit.
2: You cannot connect to Steam online to get the patch(s).

Does the DLC break the current fix if you install it? I can't figure out reading the posts if it does or not. I am able to play it fine in 21:9 now with latest Steam patch and FWS. I want to get the DLC, but not if its going to break the fix. Anyone know for sure?

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DLC works 100% with latest fix I own the season pass it all looks good to me in 21:9. Here are some screenshots I took of it in 21:9 a few days ago:

Hi Guys,

I believe I can clear up the confusion here. The current plugin for The Evil Within doesn't work if you are running the original unpatched version of the game (cracked or retail, DLC or no). You will get an error regarding the LetterBox2 injection point or similar. If you have the steam version of the game, you are likely not having the issue as the game is being kept up to date, DLC or no.

If you are running the game by installing from an ISO image or BluRay disc, you will need to obtain the latest patch by going to the Bethesda website and downloading it there. If you are running a cracked version, you will need to apply the update, then obtain a crack for the current version of the game. You do not need to have the DLC to update to the latest version. There are update files for both the DLC and the base game.

I too am having a problem. I'm trying to run 5760x1080 res. The game is fully updated, Flawless Widescreen is fully updated. When the game starts I get sounds but no display until it has you press any key to proceed. Then I only get a picture on the main center screen. I can arrow through options but cannot see them. The mouse is constrained to the center screen. Any thoughts?

I played this some time ago and i can tell you it isn't that good even story wise it gets boring pretty fast -_- or maybe it was just me.

too bad. the game is on sale. but i am sick of that fov....

widescreenfixer wont work anymore with The Evil Within. If i hit Escape, it works, but ingame, the camera moves and its unplayable......


any ideas how to fix the FOV ?


flawless widescreen:


working when i hit escape



ingame - horrible

dark3zz, you can fix it. The problem is you are 21:9, you need to enforce your resolution on FWS (same as Manual PLP).

In FWS, go to menu Settings, Configuration, Display Detection. Checkmark Enable Detection Override; enter Width & Height (fullscreen), HUD W&H (fake center's size* ), HUDX (fake side width *), HUDY zero. And you have 3 monitors, not one. Save Changes.

* Note that to get this working you need to pretend you have PLP:
- Your fake center: 1920x1080
- Your fake sides width: 320 (which is 2560 minus 1920, divided by 2)
- You have 3 fake montors (not 1).
(fake values will make good HUD & spread game properly)
(all this assuming your normal resolution is 2560x1080)


Details: http://www.wsgf.org/blog/imusrt/2015/09/18/evil-within-dlc-manual-plp-instructions-2014

If you like the game, recommend DLC: The Executioner. Great fun, OP 1st person melee slaughter & minimal sneaking.

hei imusrt, that helped alot, thank you so much !

i didnt recognized that i can force my resolution with the tool

i hope it is right this way ? looks much better ingame now




and i deactivated the Letterbox Fix in the Plugin

dark3zz, that looks right. Glad it worked. DLC will work same, & many other games. So worth attempting when a problem. But won't work for all games. Depends on what FWS is actively doing in its fix, which varies by game.

Thanks for propagating the knowledge imusrt, I'm not sure why more people don't realize this is possible, I have tried to point it out a few times previously.

Support for PLP and constraining automatically to 16:9 is behavior that probably needs to be present by default, that is the chief problem with the majority of games in that they are designed only for 16:9.

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Perhaps this is helpful:



Altho I've never tested 3:2 display stack, although I've tried to support it from the beginning

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And for 21:9 (2560x1080) when a 16:9 HUD is desired (1920x1080):



However - it's correct to note that sometimes the implementation doesn't always lend itself well to this specific solution.

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Wouldn't 21:9 also need "Horizontal Display Count: 3" ? (for fake PLP)
Also your idea for FWS improvement sounds great. Current fake-PLP workaround is not obvious, for those with 21:9. And over time we will see people using more varied resolutions.

Related FWS improvement (which is likely too low priority & annoying dev):
for manual (non-Eyefinity) MM spread, FWS could work better if it had an option to "always enforce resolution" (default or override), on every game it supports.

hei, Hayden and imusret, you are two great guys, thanks for helping here...

- does this fix work also for every game like Blacklist ? that game is the only one which i dont have a solution yet.......

dark3zz, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series is not supported by FWS.
Also from a MM manual-spreading perspective, a number from that game-series is problematic (including Blacklist itself).
Strong chance you won't get Blacklist to work 21:9 without a FWS plugin (which doesn't exist). But I could be wrong, I have not tested series on 21:9.

Your best chance is likely In-game windowed, quit. Resolution-file-edit (these *) & read-only. In-game ShiftWindow (+ border = borderless). Try this in both DX11 & DX9 (In-game Advanced Settings DirectX DX9 & DX11).
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Ubisoft\Blacklist\videoSettings.ini
* WindowedViewportX=####
* WindowedViewportY=1080

- - -
other interesting values:
- IsLetterBoxUsageEnabled=1
- EyefinityMode=2
- IsMultiMonitorEmulationEnabled=0
- MinTripleDisplayAspectRatio=3.7000
- AdapterIndex=-1
- MonitorAspect=-1.0000
- validationRequired=0

No Hope Here:
registry (no hope here, skip it)
other files (no hope here, skip it)
SoftTH, made no diff (& In-game fullscreen, DX9, file edit)

FYI. Small chance this type of thing would work. An Aspect entry would be ideal, but hard to find:
FOV: Edit exe with hex editor
- Open Blacklist_game.exe with a hex editor like HxD.
- Search for DesiredFOV=75 and change its value to whatever you choose, then save your changes.

Greetings, i 'll try to describe my issue, with my poor english: i'm playing the game , weel trying to play it in my native resolution, 1680 x 1050, using Flawless for FOV fix..all is working except meny, diary and all non ingame text (in game inventory too) is totally unreadable..it's off set to the right..i can only see the first 4 digit of menu command..same for diary,etc..can someone pls help me to get rid of this issue? if i set windowed mode, menu become normal..but i dont likme playing windowed mode. Thansk for the help and sry my bad eng.

p.s. i'm playing on a AMD HD 7950 3 Gb with latest dirvers installed

indio68,
1. If windowed works right, easiest to just make the window borderless. This looks as good as fullscreen.
You do this by forcing the game's borders to the outside of your screen. Use ShiftWindow for this (+ border = borderless, & to position).
Are you using Windows 10? If so, there may be a complication.

2. But if you want fullscreen to work, it is likely you need to adjust FWS (in FWS menu Settings, Configuration, Display Detection. Use the Detection Override).
Have you tried this? I don't know what override values you should try (use trial & error).

Recommend also in-game Letterbox Disabled. And in FWS plugin, checkmark all except Letterbox Fix & leave FOV sliders zero (because FWS fixes the FOV to proper, no extra FOV is needed).

It should be noted that The Evil Within's FWS plugin has a disclaimer about 16:10:
"...unknown if this will resolve issues entirely for 21:9 and 16:10 - milage may vary"
But I know 21:9 will work fine with FWS's detection override (using "fake PLP" values). So 16:10 single-screen has hope, using same or similar method. Although 16:10 aspect is obviously completely different than 21:9. 16:10 is much taller so may not work out. No idea, but worth attempting.

thanks for replay me...yes i tried detection override but putting my res 1680 x 1050 for with\height, hud and hud x hud y..does'nt worked..and yes i'm using win10...what is this PlP fakes?? no idea on what value i must put inthere..any tips? thanks again.

indio68,
It may be that you are using incorrect FWS override settings. Did you enter this? If not, adjust & try it.
Width: 1680
Height: 1050
Hud Width: 1680
Hud Height: 1050
Horizontal Display Count: 1
Vertical Display Count: 1
Hud X: 0 (you use zero? if not fix it)
Hud Y: 0 (you use zero? if not fix it)

As for borderless game (suggestion #1), it would work great in previous operating system. But in Windows 10 a slight window-border may still be present (not sure, have not tested game on Windows 10). There is potential workarounds for this too (e.g. WinShift). So if FWS override-numbers don't work for you, the borderless suggestion is your likeliest & best fix.

Failing all above, try this:
"Fake PLP" is a way to make 21:9 work, by altering FWS override-numbers.
It is telling FWS you have multiple fake monitors of small size, so your HUD lines up right, & elsewhere fills proper with game-world.
But I am very uncertain this type of fudging will help in 16:10 case. You would have to test out some values. Something like this (adding fake screens on top & bottom in 16:10's case):
Width: 1680
Height: 1050
Hud Width: 1680
Hud Height: 945 (which is 1680 / 16 x 9)
Horizontal Display Count: 1
Vertical Display Count: 3 (impersonating very slim fake screens on top & bottom of your main game area.)
Hud X: 0
Hud Y: 52 (which is 1050 - 945, / 2)

These fake numbers will not produce the "proper 16:10 game view" but may well improve your text problem etc.

many many thanksimusrt...i'll give it a try...i want use my 1680 x 1050 to have best graphic..in my native resolution..i'll let you know if your values 'r working. thanks again.

damn!! no way..even with the value u write above, nothing worked..menu text is offset to the right and a little cut in the lover (and i think )and upper ..i can see only half of the word Downloadable content and cant see the description of the menu command in the bottom of the screen when u hoover mouse on the voice of menu..uff this thing made me mad! i cant belive i can't see proper menu.what value make text going to left and up?thanks

Your game is screaming for a 16:9 monitor.
HUD X is the left-edge of "text layer etc" (zero being your bezel).
HUD Y is the top-edge.

Other than you testing other fudged FWS override numbers, I am out of ideas.

so i need to play with those 2 v alue only, for trying fixing this damn HUD?? playing a BIT IN WINDOWED..AND ..OH MAN..I THINK I LOST AT LEAST 40% OF THE hud till now.-..seems like FOV fix zoom in my hud too..in windowed letters are smaller and all centered..i didnt seee so many options and tipsin full screen
..but having the border so big is not thaT GOOD IN WINDOWED..i'll try to play with those value than..thanks for your effort!

Remember, you can force windowed into borderless. Just add your border thickness to ShiftWindow's values. This will push your window's borders beyond your viewable screen, so you do not see them.
(assuming you are not using Windows 10. If you are, full borderless may not work out. Not yet tested).

yea windows 10 here...well i think i will end the game with border in windowed mode..happy new year anyway!! and thanks

Hello, I am having trouble to use Flawless Widescreen with this game. Could somebody help me? I am having this error (in the Status Windows) after I open the game "Could not find LetterBoxFix2 injection point, The Evil Within may have updated to a version that is no longer supported. Try restarting The Evil Within or selecting a different version and re-enable the fix."
How can I make it work? I am playing on a 21:9 monitor (2560x1080) and is really annoying to play with the black bars on all sides.

netowww,

Fairly strong chance of fix:
1. Open in Wordpad: (path-to-FWS)\PluginCache\FWS_Plugins\Modules\TheEvilWithin\Dependencies\Scripts\TheEvilWithin.lua.
2. Find first occurrence of "LetterBoxFix2" (it's the one with quotes).
3. Notice SignatureScan directly beneath above line. The hex in this line should be changed to match your game's exe.
4. So open your game's exe in hex editor & find the closest match to that SignatureScan's hex string.
5. Once found, jot down the hex-difference & edit your lua entry to match your game exe's difference.
6. Failing that, try editing lua based on the remaining very-close-matches, one at a time until FWS hooks.

You can use HxD hex editor.
(There is no hex wildcard support in HxD. Wildcard support can be found in e.g. Hex Editor xvi32 & would work great, but learning curve)

Thank you for all the help and info that you gave me. I did what you said and it worked!
Thank you very much for the support. You were very helpful.

Many thanks HaYDeN and imusrt for the info on this thread. I'm able to get the game to run correctly on 3440x1440 with the following setting,

Game Option:
Fullscreen: ON
Letterbox: OFF

Flawless Widescreen
Settings/Configuration/Display Detection
Enable Display Detection Override
W: 3440
H: 1440
Hud W: 3440
Hud H: 1440
Hor Disp Count: 3
Ver Disp Count: 1
Hud X: 3440
Hud Y: 0

Flawless Widescreen The Evil Within Setting
Everything default with only "LetterBox Fix" unchecked.

Would you guys suggest any other change? Currently, the game look great. Again, thank you for all the wonderful explanation. I'm completely new to 21:9. I'm totally in love!

Hello, I have a setup of 3 very different displays:
Left: 1680x1050 (16:10) + Center: 3440x1440 (21:9) + Right: 1920x1080 (16:9)

I gruop them with AMD eyefinity, to get a desktop 7040x1440 (both side displays are v-centered and I miss image in corners because my displays do not cover all 7040x1440 rectangle)

I have filled these settings:
W: 7040 H: 1440
Hud W: 3440 Hud H: 1440
Hor Disp Count: 3 Ver Disp Count: 1
Hud X: 1680 Hud Y: 0

BUT my HUD, I mean, what I should see in the center display, is not centered. The central 3440 area is shifted to the right, like if this setup would have set 1800 pixels to each side of my central hud, but I should have 1680 to the left and 1920 to the right instead 1800 to both sides.

By the way, I have tried different values for the HUD X setting, but it ignores me, does not matter what value I set in HUD x, the result is always the same, 1800 pixels each side.

Is this a limitation of WSGF ? this always assume symmetrical setups ? Or there is any way to get it to work properly 1680+3440+1920?

Please help! Thank you

Hi guys,

I really need your help with this game. It seems that FWS doesnt work to me, even if i managed the correct hex string for "LetterBoxFix2" as described from imusrt just few post above.
Now I'm finally able to run FWS without errors at startup but nothing seems to happen ingame when i change the settings like fov or aspect ratio. I've tried everything but sadly with no results. Whats wrong?