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I wish all the crashes I was getting resulted in a glitch like that! Hot stuff.

Well the engine is definitely not DS1 or DS2 one. All the things we did there to fix the game doesn't work here...
So... guess we need a new method....

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Here's some form of progress achieved thou

by Kaldaien
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =663922936
https://github.com/Kaldaien/SoulsUnsque ... ag/sus_000

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Any solution?

It's being worked on. Kaldaien, see the post above yours, is working on bringing out a 21:9 fix in the next iteration of his program. We'll most likely see something in the next few days, but I don't think there will be anything today or tomorrow. I hope I'm wrong

Well, thanks your prompt response and work...

I wonder if it will be safe of Softbans...
I mean, Flawless WS never caused a softban to me on Dark Souls II, but I am quite fearful about these things

EDIT: I'm confident a fix for nVidia Surround will be arriving!

Well, I tried but have no idea how to fix this game... It uses it's internal rendering RECT pretty much like all previous games...
Maybe somebody else has a clue...

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This is interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/com ... rt/d21mcf1

Kind of like IRalther's friend. It glitched out and the game was rendering ultrawide properly. Edit: Oh, just saw another one

I've been playing, and loving, this game at an unfortunate 16:9 ratio, though I would like to voice my opinion that I would extol and provide recompense somehow for whomever can provide a proper fix to this situation! I was planning on boycotting the game until an official patch for 21:9 appeared, though I was overwhelmed by the positive receptions of the game and decided I'd like to play it regardless. I'm glad I did, though it would be absolutely lovely to be playing on a native aspect ratio and resolution. Thank you in advance to any and all trying to crack this nut!

I wonder if the game is constantly being rendered behind the black bars as some of the people on reddit suggested from their own 'glitched' experience that let them play the game in 21:9.

SO I had the theory that the online mite be the problem here , do to that I get kick from online mod immediately when my fps drops below 60 in the main menu , and they have put up the black bars on 21:9 screen setting so everyone can play at 60fps all the time so no one experience lag?

I am going to admit I am not the best att computers , but I tried out this by starting steam in offline mod and then launching Dark souls 3
When I was going to load my save the loading took much longer time than normal and when it finished , I had full screen

Unfortunately when I turn off my game and tried the same thing aggen the bars were back , so mabby thes have nothing to do with it , but it mite be a suggestion to people to try and play in offline and se if it happens for you too.
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Yeah, I've seen some other people theorizing online may have something to do with it. It also seems the game is being rendered behind the black bars if you choose a 21:9 ratio, so I'd suggest using a 16:9 resolution in the settings for a possible performance bump (haven't tested this yet).

I'm totally relying on you guys to add 21:9, after playing both Souls games with your modded versions I feel trapped in a box playing DS3 at 16:9. Don't give up skeleton!

I hope the 21:9 fix can also allow a 5:4 - 1280 x 1024 implementation. Widescreen Fixer worked wonders for Dark Souls 1 and FlawlessWidescreen worked perfectly for Dark Souls 2 and SotFS. I prefer more squared monitors and older fixes allowed me to utilize it fully. I thought that Dark Souls 3 used the Dark Souls 2 engine and it would be easy but it doesn't seem so. I can't pitch in right away but I start work at a new job next week so I hope to be able soon.

I loaded it up the game today and to my surprise the game was making full use of my 21:9 monitor.

http://imgur.com/a/pvkms

The game however reverted back to 16:9 after I exited out to see what could have caused it. I might have triggered a glitch of some sort to cause the black bars to not appear as normal. While the game was running in 21:9, there was no visible glitching or framerate problems.
Anyone else experience this?

We need our lord and savior Hayden to come forth and deliver us from the tyranny of forced 16:9 gameplay!

Right, perhaps he's waiting for his tithe, and we need to all pony up and get him some of that sick Alphadraft scrilla.

Reference game incredibly on point.

Yep, I just loaded up the game, however I decided to change my resolution to 1920x1080 from 2560x1080 and it started rendering the game in 21:9, but within the 16:9 window (unfortunately I didn't think to get any screenshots of that). But when I changed the resolution back to 21:9, it stayed in ultrawide but filled the screen as it should, and I was able to enjoy a few minutes of Dark Souls 3 in glorious ultrawide.

http://imgur.com/a/wsj1f


However, it didn't stay that way and I haven't been able to replicate what happened, whether it was a glitch or something else.

Guys, please, someone, anyone out there. I beg of you.
Please find a way to help kill these god awful black bars.
Or in the least point me in the direction of how one would or could get into the game files to at least poke and prod.
The guy on steam, I don't want to say is a lost cause..but he is starting to make it clear how the 21:9 fix isn't the real reason behined his mod, so any type of progress in that area would most likely take a backseat to whatever the hell the original point of his mod was in the first place.
Again. I'm not trying to be a pain or repeat myself.
But please. Anybody. I will gladly and PROMPTLY donate 200$ bucks into your PayPal in the blink of an eye for this fix. No b/s.

Patience buddy

Its being worked on, Kaldaien is on it and 21:9 is on his list of to dos, in the process of getting there though he has stumbled on a number of other issues which need fixing first to get to the aspect ratio fix AFAIK.

Its harder than anticipated though and these guys work on these fixes outside of their FT job etc.

Paypal donate for sure, because they do the job lazy developers dont. My hats off to Kaldaien, HaYDen and Helifax.

The like of Acer etc who manufacture 21:9 monitors should be thankful to them, without them I am sure that the growth of 21:9 wouldnt be anywhere close to where it is.

I for one would not have purhased at 21:9 if I wasnt aware of FW and WF etc.

YEP hats off to Kaldaien, HaYDen and Helifax for there continuous work on games for our pleasure - Donate to show your appreciation. ( With a future Dark Souls 21:9 FIX i will be contributing more ) Thanx GUYz

Can't optimize to 2560x1080
i've made this options in SoulsUnsqueezed.ini

And ingame was

Ingame picture stratched to 2560x1080, but still got black borders
Where is my error?

Can't read is your error.

He wrote: To mitigate some display scaling problems that many are having, I have opted to release 0.0.1 without the promised aspect ratio features

Maybe in his next update we will get full 21:9 support.

Ouch, missed that

He posted 12ish hours ago saying he needs a couple more days to nail down an initial release on a 21:9 fix.

Huh...this is most likely nothing, BUT for some reason GeDoSaTo seems to be working with dark souls 3?! It's recognizing the game, and the bare minimum of changing resolutions in GeDoSaTo are actually working and being applied to the game.
I thought it was never updated for directx11 support?
I'm going to full around with it more tonight, but I'm just throwing this out there for anyone interested in throwing crap at the wall to see what sticks.

Wohoo i somehow got the glitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTgVoywgMdU

Tried to make the most of it. But sadly could not recreate no matter how many times i relaunched the game. This is killing me x_x

I've tried my best to withstand this game at 16:9 but I can't take it, the FOV is just too limiting. Really hoping we'll get a fix soon. Can't believe it's 2016 and we still have this shit.

You can try this for 2560 x 1080:

1) HEX
Find this HEX string:

Change it to:

2) WINDOWED mode
Make the game run in windowed mode, either going in game settings or change the GraphicsConfig.xml
Entering resolution to 2560 x 1080
(C:\Users\YourNAME\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsIII)

3) Use Borderless Gaming
Get rid of window borders.

// The .EXE is too big to bother uploading it
// I don't know how safe is to play ONLINE with this. So it's up to you.

// I find out that there's a catch, the game isn't optimized for 21:9, when you look at some enemies out of the 1920x1080 frame, you will see their animations stutter pretty much like the border frames of 2560x1080 are running at 10 FPS

OK it's strange, first I found out when I ported to Farron Keep Perimeter, there is a sequence when two Darkwraiths are coming to fight the other enemies near entrance to the Abyss Watchers. And for these enemies I've seen the stutter animations, out of the 1920x1080 frame. So I start to look for other things, but so far no problems with other creatures, npc, world animations.

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EDIT: Too slow, but don't want to delete the whole text. took me some time

Okay here we go. In the comment section under Souls Unsqueezed in steam forum someone explained in pieces how to get rid of the black bars. This method worked now 3 times in a row for me (load game, close game, start again, and so on)

(description is for 21:9 2560 x 1080)

( not needed - modify your ds3.exe and replace 398EE33F with 26 B4 17 40 (already known from other games))

- modify your ds3.exe and replace 800700003804 with 000A00003804 (this will make possible to set 2560 x 1080 in window mode. without the change you can only set it to 1920 x 1080)

- modify your GraphicsConfig.xml (appdata - roaming - dark souls III) to:

<config><ScreenMode>WINDOW</ScreenMode>
<Resolution-WindowScreenWidth>2560</Resolution-WindowScreenWidth>
<Resolution-WindowScreenHeight>1080</Resolution-WindowScreenHeight>

- download "windowed borderless gaming" and install it OR you can set your GraphicsConfig.xml to read only and change to fullscreen later in game options

- start dark souls 3, it should start in window mode. check in options if the resolution is set correct ( http://i.imgur.com/T9zWu1U.jpg )

- load your game (you should see some flickering image on the right side while the item descrition is displayed)

- it should now load without the black bars.

- click your windowed borderless gaming icon in your task bar. add window, click back to dark souls 3 and press f3 OR as mentioned, set the game in options to fullscreen.

game should be now in fullscreen without any black bars

testet it right now before posting a fourth time and it loaded again without black bars.

EDIT: DSR works as well. When you set your GraphicsConfig.xml to read only and don't use "windowed borderless gaming" to "force" fullscreen you can set your game to fullscreen in options an choose whatever resolution you want to. If the game is started without the black bars, the bars won't come back until you restart it, independent which resolution you are choose

You DO NOT need to modify the bits for UWD.

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Hello, i don't know how to replace this string, when i try to paste "000A00003804" to the old one, nothing happen.

Just write the sequence on keyboard when you have the 80 selected. What program are you using for editing?

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This: "Hex Workshop Hex Editor (64 bit)", but i seen now that i need this for 3440x1440 and not for 2560x1080, there is a string for 3440?

i belive its 70 0D 00 00 A0 05

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It work, i got 3440x1440 in windows mode too, but i got black screen bars with BORDELESS GAMING. why?

Yes, you're right. Now I understand it completely finally

1920x1080


2560x1080


3440x1440

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Works, but i got black bars again

after find this......
personnal tips for nvdia surround and eyefinity :

1: lock your "GraphicsConfig.xml" windowed and select same resolution win /full put the file read only !
2: edit DarkSoulsIII.exe change only value 1920::1080 "hexa 800700003804 to your resolution..ex 5760::1080 " 801600003804 "
3: launch game.....is windowed but 5760:1080 run match and in game go to option select fullscreen ! is work but....
the external screens are not completely filled a black gray halo ...do you have an idea why ? the effect corresponds to the option "vignette" in sweetfx........
dont use reshade or sweetfx..may be that activation of this allows to remove it, but I doubt it
re help !!!!!!

despite all this is much better no ?

I precise this is not the famous black bands

Thank you Martan & Armin1702

it works's perfectly!



Used HxD's replace function using hex-values and replaced 800700003804 with 000A00003804

I actually recommend going back to fullscreen once you have it "glitched", it will most likely improve performance and it will stay glitched until you restart the game.

Can you post a screenshot related to this issue?
It's funny I tried this among the first things;) but it never worked. I never thought of making it work in Window Mode and that it will "STICK" in fullscreen afterwards;)

Awesome job nevertheless;)

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OK from following the tips here I have it working on my acer 3440 x 1440 Predator, thank you!!!!. Im not sure if i was reading a step incorrectly but i had to do one last thing to get it to work. From the beginning: I used the hex editor to change the value to 70 0D 00 00 A0 05 for 3440x1440. In app data i changed the line to WINDOW and set the resolution to 3440 x 1440.
Once i had done that I saved the file and ticked read only, launched Windowed Borderless gaming, then started Dark Souls 3. It starts in windowed mode, I go to options and check the resolution is correct, drop out of the menu and continue a game. Once in game still windowed I click on Windowed Borderless Gaming and selected add window, click on the dark souls window and press f3.

At this point it's still in windowed but squashed even more and I go into the options in game and select FULLSCREEN, once done i'm at my bonfire in glorious ultrawide!. I know it's been said already and your wondering why im posting the exact same thing but im doing it as much for myself to refer to later if i cant replicate it! i'm just really glad it's done. Thanks again guys.

YOU ARE ALL GODS TY YOU ALL,1) HEX change, then go window mode then full and im 21:9 full screen no black bars fuck yea boys, also
config><
ScreenMode>FULLSCREEN</ScreenMode>
<Resolution-WindowScreenWidth>2560</Resolution-WindowScreenWidth>
<Resolution-WindowScreenHeight>1080</Resolution-WindowScreenHeight>
<Resolution-FullScreenWidth>2560</Resolution-FullScreenWidth>
<Resolution-FullScreenHeight>1080</Resolution-FullScreenHeight>
<Auto-detectBestRenderingSettings>OFF</Auto-detectBestRenderingSettings>
change them 2

Awesome work guys! By following the instructions posted here, I got it working aswell

https://i.imgur.com/3rumuEt.jpg

Thank you so much for thes fix , Armin1702 have you gone to reddit whit thes? I am shure som on the Dark souls 3 sub is interested in thes

honor for me Helifax

screens after loading windowed 5760:1080

you see black halo.... one idea ? is fullscreen of course ! please help help...........

thanks ..

Thanks for the screenshot;) Now that is actually a pretty cool effect:)) I quite like it:)
I haven't tried it yet as I am still at work;) but it might be possible to do something about it;)

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THANK YOU GUYS! This fix worked great for me in 3440x1440. Only quirk is that you have to reset to fullscreen in the options every time you restart the game, but a small price to pay for getting it to work properly.

Same! Works perfectly with 3440x1440.

And now the big question: Do we dare use this while playing online?

Sorry guys Hex editor noob here when I try to change 800700003804 to 700D0000A005 for 3440x1440 in Hex Workshop I use Find to find the first value and then change it to the new value? Am I doing this correctly? Also when I change the .xml file do I need to input everything with spaces in between each letter like it is listed in the file?

Nvm I got it working. Thanks guys

I adjusted the executable file. I changed the configuration and set read-only mode. I run the game in windowed mode, and then turned on the full screen, and here and there were bands. download exe and cfg file here

So excited to here that a fix for Ds3 to 21:9 is working well- When will there be something available for us Non-Savvy users IE - ME ha ha.
I have a Acer Predator X34 running at 3440x1440 playing Ds3 with bars in full screen mode ! PLZ - Anybody 8)

yes... the effect is not too bad ! but prefer find good way for entire screen............

I wouldn't use it online, but I'd rather be on the safe side.

thanks to you I've got it too, a mighty .
with a little bit of difference - i have 5760*1200 and that was correspondingly counted in ResHex and successfully applied into HxD.
my number for resolution is " 80 16 00 00 B0 04 " - as for 5760*1200
also while starting in window mode game looks compressed and narrow but fullscreening it gives us complete eyefinity look.
and now for the beauty:




compressed window mode at start

The baked in vignetting you can only see in super ultrawide makes me think they wanted to support wider ratios. I don't know why else that would be there. It looks pretty cool.

Coming back to this thread after a full week and I couldn't be happier. Thank you for the fix Martan and Armin1702, it works great and isn't too complicated. Let me know if you guys use Paypal because I think a donation is deserved. I hope others agree with me here.

I'm still looking forward to a much more official fix from Kaldaien and anyone that he is working with. You all have my full support.

On another note, do any of you see an Ultrawide HUD fix being possible or would it be too difficult to find and implement?

PS: Screenshot in 2560x1080 with SweetFX/Reshade (works just fine!)

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are you guys playing online with these changes?
I'm afraid to get banned, but i really want to play without letterboxes

I'm debating if i want to play online with it too.
I really think someone needs to contact From Software and get a stance on this.

It should be noted that playing offline may not even save people from soft-bans should they deem this ban-worthy. DS3 has a built-in anticheat that runs even when in offline mode.

I've played the whole evening online and everything is fine:)

I also played a lot of DS1 with WidescreenFixer and here I am still...
I also played a lot of DS2 with Flawless Widescreen and here I am still...

People don't understand that a modification like this that handles the RENDERER will never ever get flagged up. Now, if you use a trainer to get more souls or be invincible...that is another matter completely....

It's like you are asking: "Will I get banned cause I am using 800x600 and not 1920x1080 ?!?!" type of questions... I've never seen anyone getting banned for using ANY of the Widescreen Fixes found here! EVER!

There was one guy who said it was our fix that got him into trouble...in the end it proved he had a bit coin "farmer" running on his machine that was flagged up:))

Seriously people.... do some reading and learn a bit more! You are on the PC FOR F@ SAKE not some console crap where you don't care, just wanna play that game... ^_^

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Helixfax, while I too have had 0 issues with widescreenfixer or flawless widescreen in the past, I've heard cases of DS2FIX resulting in quite a few people being put into the cheater-pool via softbans.

Now it could be that quite a few people were in fact cheating and decided to blame DS2Fix, I don't know. What I do know is FromSoftware never refuted the claim and did state that DS2fix was not an approved file.

The only issue with this current fix I can see is the fact that it requires editing the exe and therefore could easily be detected from a simple checksum. But hey, hopefully From Software isn't overly zealous.

Helifax, It's too soon to say if you'll be banned for using the .exe edit or not, and it doesn't matter if the hack only affects the renderer, either. If they can hash check the .exe and see that it's any different from the unmodified one, they'll have reason enough to do something about it. They're not going to pick and choose based on what people are modifying via hex editors, they won't be able to know that anyway, they'll just go by the fact it's modded at all.

Something else to consider is that due to the nature of soft-bans, it's pretty hard to know at an instant if you've been banned or not. Heck, I'd imagine some go their entire time with a game without realizing that they're being penalized.

The guide that Martin and Armin posted does not work for me, however I did realise there was an update, does this still work for everyone? Or did I manage to mess up?

Solkrieg, it worked for me. I'd check to make sure you're using the correct values.

Well, I did a refresh reboot and did everything I did before and now it works. Thanks for your help for making me go back and do it all again heh (was going to post pictures to make sure I did everything correctly because I've never hex-edited anything before).

Ok, so I don't like stuffing around with more than i have to so i did this step and launched the game and 2560x1080p in borderless mode was now selectable. Chose that and restarted. 21:9 was working. Switched to fullscreen and 21:9 still works.

After repeated testing all you have to do is make the change above once ever and make sure you select window mode 2560x1080p borderless mode before closing the game so next time it launches in borderless mode 2560x1080p then just switch to full screen and done... Or you can just make the above change and set the games config file in app data to read only and not have to worry about exiting the game in bordered mode ever again.

Cheers for figuring this stuff out to everyone that contributed. Much more enjoyable game now.





https://www.dropbox.com/s/69aqkhk2peajc ... 9.bmp?dl=0

mick50008, If you prefer to play in FULLSCREEN your best shot is to.

Find your GraphicsConfig.xml (C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsIII)
Make it launch in WINDOW screenmode and also enter your prefered UWD resolution:

'Lock' the file using ReadOnly parameter.

Every time you launch the game just go to in-game settings and change to Fullscreen


All the credit goes to someone named prouha from Steam. He initially posted what should we look for I just test it for 2560x1080 and posted here, later we find out that it works with this FULLSCREEN trick switch

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This is what I found about DS2 and soft-bans. Now, modifying your stats and such is considered a CHEAT and I can understand that. Not a big problem for me actually as I hate being invaded over and over again;)) For example last night when I was invaded by 3 guys in the same time around the Cathedral of the Deep;)
I also think that soft-bans are related to your character/save-file and not account-wise. (although people say is account based...)

In any case, as with all MODS, they are and never will be officially supported. But, I've never ever seen a company to ban you for mods that are handling only the renderer (post-processing, rendering details, etc).

It is debatable, but from what I saw so far, there isn't anything to worry about if you play CLEAN and Fair-Play;) Of course this is open for debate;)
I just wanted to share my experience with this:)

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I'm with Helifax, just play online and viva la vida loca

I am little capable, someone who is able may publish a guide with pictures and links used program of how to make a video would be nice, thank you to all m i apologize for my lack of ability

or the already modified executable files

What's your problem ?

For some reason nothing works for me. I've used hex editor and modded ds3.exe which allows for 3440x1440 to show up in the windowed res options in dark souls resolution options , I've edited the file in appdata to window , I use window borderless gaming and add window using F3 . Whenever ds3 starts it always starts in full screen and not windowed even tho I've set the config to window....... And whenever I put it to window mode it goes to a crazy res of 1680x945 ??? Where is that coming from ??

the program used to modify executable, and how it works, where to find it.

I know this is an odd request, but is there any way to stretch the hud for 21:9? I got the hex edit patch working, but now I want the hud to span the screen even if it's stretched.

Im with you stra1, im terrible at modifying this kind of stuff.

Regarding the softbans, I played all of Dark Souls 2 with Flawless widescreen and got softbanned not for using it but because I have 2 computers, and the game doesnt support cloud saves, I forgot to copy my save one time and opened the game in my second computer which had a ton of levels less than my main save, and they banned me for that for a couple of weeks.

May I ask how you can be sure that it was the saves that got you soft-banned? I used a shoddy 3rd party cloud save program for DkS2 and I don't think I ever got soft-banned for it. Also, I wasn't aware the bans could be temporary.. How did you know it was lifted? My understanding is that once you're soft-banned, you're placed in a pool with other folks who've been soft-banned and can only match with them.

Here are the modified DS3.exe's

DarkSoulsIII_2560x1080_v_1.03.1


DarkSoulsIII_3440x1440_v_1.03.1

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Thanks you are very kind I love you brother

I hope not to catch vac ban for this cross our fingers, absurd that Namco Bandai Entertainment not support 21: 9

You are my goddamn hero! Thank you dude!

I tried to not work remain blacks edges, intended to's like playing 16: 9 accursed Namco Bandai Entertainment

- modify your GraphicsConfig.xml (user/name/appdata/roaming/dark souls III) to:

<config><ScreenMode>WINDOW</ScreenMode>
<Resolution-WindowScreenWidth>2560</Resolution-WindowScreenWidth>
<Resolution-WindowScreenHeight>1080</Resolution-WindowScreenHeight>

Mark the xml as "Read Only"

Hi guys, I can't seem to find the GraphicsConfig.xml file.

The appdata folder does not appear under user/name. Instead, it appears under user/default.migrated/appdata, but there's no Dark Souls III folder there. Does anyone know where else I could find the folder and file?

Either activate "Show hidden files and folders"
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows- ... ows-vista/

or

Type/paste "AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsIII" when you select the address bar in Explorer, enter it after your name:

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I tried to not work remain blacks edges

Namco Bandai Entertainment fuck

This does not work I have predator x 34 3440x1440 gtx 980ti g1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" ?>
<config><ScreenMode>FULLSCREEN</ScreenMode>
<Resolution-WindowScreenWidth>3440</Resolution-WindowScreenWidth>
<Resolution-WindowScreenHeight>1440</Resolution-WindowScreenHeight>
<Resolution-FullScreenWidth>3440</Resolution-FullScreenWidth>
<Resolution-FullScreenHeight>1440</Resolution-FullScreenHeight>
<Auto-detectBestRenderingSettings>OFF</Auto-detectBestRenderingSettings>
<QualitySetting>MAX</QualitySetting>
<TextureQuality>MAX</TextureQuality>
<Antialiasing>ON</Antialiasing>
<SSAO>HIGH</SSAO>
<DepthOfField>MAX</DepthOfField>
<MotionBlur>HIGH</MotionBlur>
<ShadowQuality>MAX</ShadowQuality>
<LightingQuality>MAX</LightingQuality>
<EffectsQuality>MAX</EffectsQuality>
<ReflectionQuality>MAX</ReflectionQuality>
<WaterSurfaceQuality>HIGH</WaterSurfaceQuality>
<ShadeQuality>MAX</ShadeQuality>
</config>

Possible solution with 1680x1050 resolution (16:10) ?

Here for 3440x1440 21:9

0) Open your hex editor i use xvi32 and locate dark souls 3 exe (backup first before modifying)

1) HEX
Find this HEX string:
80 07 00 00 38 04

Change it to:
70 0D 00 00 A0 05

2) WINDOW mode
Make the game run in windowed mode, either going in game settings or change the GraphicsConfig.xml (C:\Users\YourNAME\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsIII) This folder might be hidden.
Set the .xml file to read only after modifying

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" ?>
<config><ScreenMode>WINDOW</ScreenMode>
<Resolution-WindowScreenWidth>3440</Resolution-WindowScreenWidth>
<Resolution-WindowScreenHeight>1440</Resolution-WindowScreenHeight>
<Resolution-FullScreenWidth>3440</Resolution-FullScreenWidth>
<Resolution-FullScreenHeight>1440</Resolution-FullScreenHeight>
<Auto-detectBestRenderingSettings>ON</Auto-detectBestRenderingSettings>
<QualitySetting>HIGH</QualitySetting>
<TextureQuality>HIGH</TextureQuality>
<Antialiasing>ON</Antialiasing>
<SSAO>HIGH</SSAO>
<DepthOfField>HIGH</DepthOfField>
<MotionBlur>HIGH</MotionBlur>
<ShadowQuality>HIGH</ShadowQuality>
<LightingQuality>HIGH</LightingQuality>
<EffectsQuality>HIGH</EffectsQuality>
<ReflectionQuality>HIGH</ReflectionQuality>
<WaterSurfaceQuality>HIGH</WaterSurfaceQuality>
<ShadeQuality>HIGH</ShadeQuality>
</config>

3) Start game Go options --> select fullscreen (you need to do this thing every time you restart the game)

Also thanks for making this possible

Remember you must launch it everytime in Windowed mode, so in your config there must be:
<config><ScreenMode>WINDOW</ScreenMode>

When the game has launched in Window, you can press ALT+ENTER to get it easily to Fullscreen (without the need to go to menu and setting it there manually everytime)

Also you must check that the config file - GraphicsConfig.xml is set to be ReadOnly, in it's file properties (right click that file, tick ReadOnly, press OK)
This is because it will not get modified by any action in-game, so it would break the first launch in Windowed mode.


Lynko
For the 1680x1050 you can try the same procedure.

You need to swap any resolution HEX string existing for Windowed mode, with this HEX string which represents 1680x1050:

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LG 29UB67 => AOC AG352UCG6

nice job, very nice

send me your paypal, i would like donate $ for this work.

I managed with only fear and ban vac hopefully good

thank you all for your patience and help

The vignetting/blackening in nvidia surround 5760 by 1080 is driving me insane. I tried using a few reshade presets offline to get rid of this but to no avail, although I have not used reshade before and I may be missing something. Anyone have any solution for surround users please?

thank you for gratitude :
"All the credit goes to someone named prouha from Steam. He initially posted what should we look for I just test it for 2560x1080 and posted here, later we find out that it works with this FULLSCREEN trick switch [/quote]

prouha in steam...chichi007 in widescreen

How bad is the vignetting? No way to remove it?

How exactly can I get this to run in 5:4 aspect ratio? (1280x1024)

hello I have done everything you said , and change the .exe file in the config window mode, but the game goes into full screen alone when I click on the main screen and starts 1920/1080 when I put the game returns to 3440x1440 16/9
I play on Windows 10 on an acer predator x 34

Hex edit: Go to --> ...\steamapps\common\DARK SOULS III\Game\DarkSoulsIII.exe
Look for 800700003804 and change it to 000A00003804 (2560x1080) or to 700D0000A005 (3440x1440)

INI edit: Go to --> C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsIII\GraphicsConfig.xml
Change to this Values for 3440x1440
<config><ScreenMode>WINDOW</ScreenMode>
<Resolution-WindowScreenWidth>3440</Resolution-WindowScreenWidth>
<Resolution-WindowScreenHeight>1440</Resolution-WindowScreenHeight>
<Resolution-FullScreenWidth>3440</Resolution-FullScreenWidth>
<Resolution-FullScreenHeight>1440</Resolution-FullScreenHeight>

Make the File under Properties READ-ONLY

Start the Game and in the Menu press ALT + RETURN (makes the Game Fullscreen and HOR+)

http://www.wsgf.org/dr/dark-souls-iii/en

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excuse the trouble, but you're playing online or offline, in your opinion and securely online, you do not risk vac ban?

I don't think there will be any bans - helifax tried to explain see Page 10 http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 4&start=90

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Well, I just saw this:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/374320/di ... 783582436/ and I was even more afraid.

I'll wait.
I think now, only time can tell us whether someone will be banned or not.

I've only tried it offline, now I can not risk, I more than 70 titles, would be a tragedy for me, too bad now that I managed to get it going I was happy like a child on Christmas morning, damn FromSoftware what it cost them to support 21:9

welp that was scary.

I just played with the modded exe for 21:9 and I couldnt connect to the servers at all, I thought I was softbanned for sure.

Recovered my original exe and Im online again, maybe it was just bad luck but Im too scared to try again, what a shame that they might banning for this, I played 3 hours in 21:9 and it was glorious

Maybe if someone releases a fix that actually works in memory injection after the CRC checks at the beginning, instead of outright changing the exe.

oh well.

Is that even possible? Anyway, guess i won't be playing Dark Souls III in UWS, at least not in the first weeks when they're out on the hunt for anyone not using the vanilla. I even saw reports of People getting banned for using NVIDIA Shadowplay... Srsly, don't the guys at FROM have someting better to do???

Honestly Im not too versed in programming but over the years there have been fixes that you can toggle on and off and some of them even required being toggled on after a certain period of time. Not sure if that would be possible though.

All the reports are really scaring me though, they seem to be banning people for modded exes but not people who modify stats in memory using Cheat Engine, what a joke.

All of this reminds me Grand Theft Auto V Online.
You can not use anything there ...

play offline in 21:9 is very very safe, I play 5-6 hours pvp in 21:9.. no problems for me.

I saw that there was some routine steam maintenance that kicked a bunch of people offline earlier, maybe you just got caught up in that. If you were banned I doubt it would allow you to just jump back on online after switching back to the original .exe.

If anyone is scared, I've been using the modified exe for two days now with plenty of online interaction (invasion, etc) and nothing has happened.

The ban is attached to your steam ID and it pops up a message if you've been banned. That sounds like just a random connection issue.

Has anyone using the fix been banned? From what people are saying in the reddit thread it sounds like it's looking at save data and maybe Borderless Widescreen Gaming, both of which seem plausible from the way their anti-cheat worked in DS2.

I'll be the guinea pig for anyone that is worried about playing online. I'm running the .exe that Martan posted earlier (Thank you very much by the way) and I'm also running a Reshade to go with it. Been running the reshade online since day one and haven't had any problems.

So i'll check back here every couple of sessions and we'll see what happens. Maybe some others that have been running the .exe can check up as well to put some at ease.

Maybe I'll see you online

How insulting is it that they release a game with no 21:9 support when it was such a simple line of code they could have altered to get it working, then someone figures it out for them and we start playing it.. in the correct aspect ratio *shock horror, we can't have people using correct aspect ratio's* so they start banning us for it? Get outta here.

Not that I endorse it, But basically they are saying if you want to play dark souls 3 in wide screen you are better off torrenting it so you have no chance of getting a vac ban.

Let's not start confusing and confounding VAC bans with From Software's anticheat.
You can not. no matter what. get VAC banned from it. DS3 does not use VAC.

Still using this fix as well. At the rate that these 'softbans' are being reported (corrupted save, cheat engine, controller software, borderless gaming) it seems that the softban server might end up being bigger than the non softban.

Looking through all 2000 posts on reddit, there doesnt seem to be a reported softban for the 21:9 fix, but this might be because the fix is only about half a week old, and perhaps they sifted through their server data somewhere between 1.03 and 1.04 when this fix wasnt available? I dont know, I may be just shooting crap.

With alot of these things, time will tell, I have weighed it up though on the basis that I do get softbanned. The pros of playing in 21:9 quite simply outweigh the negatives of losing access to the 'legit' side of the DS3 servers. I simply cannot stand the black borders.

Hell I have played through DS2 and DS2 SOTFS using FW and a number of other graphical mods and I might have been softbanned but did not know it. Did it impact my gaming experience? I dont think so.....ignorance was bliss.

Just played several hours with the .exe with no issues. Played PvP for several hours, even fought a few streamers.
I've been using a reshade since day one and I've got 50 hours on my character so i'm guessing those are ok.