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How can i increase fov for 3440x1440 ?

Thank you for helping me.

Unfortunately your files didn't help:
The first file "Cheat Engine Table" contained in the zipfile only a file with the extension ".CT" which I couldn't open. (What is this?)
The second file "Trainer" contained an exe-file but when I tried to start it, my windows 10 said it contained a virus and deleted it automatically (!?)
Am I doing something wrong?

So I tried the hex-value you mentioned as a second workaround. But when I start the game the main-menu is so tiny that I can't read anything, so it makes it unplayable for me. I then started the game without the widescreenfix just to learn which options I would have to choose, restarted the "tiny menu"-version and clicked on the options I couldn't read (because they are too tiny) but I've already learned them by heart. This way I could start a mission and saw that the FOV was much better in game. Still not perfect but much better! Maybe the hex-values don't exactly match my resolution of 5980x1080 which is without bezels. Could this be? Is your hex-value for the normal resolution of 5760x1080 with bezels?

But unfortunately I can't continue playing the game campaign with these settings, because even the briefing of a mission (which is important I think) is only shown in that tiny little window, where I can't read anything...

Do you all have this problem with triple screens or do I make something wrong?

@neyshinoda15 : use fov trainer http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=32997

@mike1304 : did you installed cheat engine before using cheat engine table ? yeah this is memory manipulation some AV has always being detected virus . Just add to the ignore list btw it's a false positive

Then Calibrate by yourself using cheat engine table as i mentioned before , increase FOV with hotkey ] until its fit in your screen when in-gameplay then write the value if you make permanent in HxD. Tiny Menu is Issue right now in higher AR than >21:9, you can decrease view with hotkey [ using fov changer or cheat engine table http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=32997

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Got the 48:9 FOV working but game is still displaying on only one monitor. I've tried running in windowed mode and changing UserSettings but with no luck unfortunately.

Hi, sorry that I'm so stupid, but I don't get it to work:

First problem (Trainer-File from your link): I deactivated Windows Defender. Now I can open the "Ace7Game_FOVChanger.EXE" (=the file I got after unpacking the trainer-file). After that I start the game. But in-game nothing changes. Problem might be that I have a german keyboard and there are no keys for "[" and "]" (your hotkeys). Instead I have to press the "AltGr"-key and the "8"-key together to get the "["-sign. If I press 9 instead of 8 I get the "]".
Could this be the problem, so that I have no effect in-game? What effect should I excpect? That the FOV changes in real-time while I press your hotkeys? Do you have any ideas?

EDIT: My second problem: Cheat engine table: Now I got it. I had to install a programm called "Cheat engine" first. It wasn't included in your link so therefore I didn't know what to do first. Okay, I installed the "Cheat engine" software, but now I'm not so sure what I should do now. Can you please tell me exactly what I should do? The sense of this cheat-engine is to correct the FOV in the menus (which are so tiny in my case), correct?

I tried to start "cheat engine". After that I started "Ace Combat 7". After that I switched back to cheat engine with Alt+Tab. There I clicked on "open process" and selected the "Ace Combat 7"-process. Then I clicked on "open cheat table" and selected your ".CT"-file: I got a line "FOV Changer" in the lower part of the screen of the Cheat Engine, but it's not "Active".
Don't know what to do now. I think I have to enter a value in the field "Value" and then click on "First Scan" but I don't know which value I should type in.
Maybe I'm totally wrong with what I did, but I have no experience with this Cheat Engine-Software. I hope you can help me again...

Did you change the resolution in-game? For me the 48:9 FOV is working and I use all my three monitors by changing resolution in graphics menu from 1920x1080 to 5980x1080). My problem though is that the main menu is sooooo tiny that I can't see anything. I can't read the options, so it's unusable for me. The game itself would be perfect (perfect FOV over three monitors while flying) but the menu is so tiny...

I gave it a go, I can disable the shaders which renders the UI - but I'm not sure I can adjust the width or position of the canvas the HUD is being rendered to/on. I could be wrong, I didn't pay the closest attention in Shader class all those years ago.

@Aure: nice progress man hopefully you can figure out transformation to apply to offset the output , for now i didn't have knowledge with that but i'll learn.



sorry i don't know the german has different layout . here i've made fov changer v2 http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=32997 , i changed the hotkeys to F10,F11 this should be works. alright here the value to fit 48x9

Main Menu: 0.01382663846
In-Gameplay : 0.017026633

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I hadn't tried changing anything in mainmenu yet because it has been so tiny as you pointed out. I have been using the FOV Tool to change in and out to see the menu easier. If the resolution shows up in the graphics menu that will be awesome.

Thank you man! Will try it tomorrow. Here it’s late night but I‘ll try to stay awake and watch the Super Bowl...
Can you please tell me where I can enter the values and how I can enter different values for gameplay and main menu. I think only the menu has a problem because it’s so tiny, whereas the gameplay seems to have correct FOV with 48x9...
Thank you so much!

WARNING: THIS IS OUTDATED, GO HERE FOR THE CURRENT FIX, ITS MUCH BETTER AND ACTUALLY WORKS: http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 13#p176013

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Update: I took down the comment for a short period because I got a report of it not working (suspected it only worked on my PC, shaders can be weird sometimes), as it turns out the problem was just that the shader fix file was accidentally misspelled (be careful that it ends in .txt and not .txt.txt!)

Update 2: Make sure that you have Windows Explorer configured to show file extensions (Open Explorer -> "View" tab at the top -> File name extensions).

Update 3: I found out you can set how gist files should be called when downloaded so I changed the install so you only have to save the shader, hopefully this will prevent more people from having file name related issues.

Hey everyone, I spent the last couple hours on Discord with DarkStarSword, one of the amazing devs of 3DMigoto and he helped me create a preliminary fix for the HUD position issue.

Instructions:

Part 0: Install (automatically or manually) susahamat's fix.

Part 1:

- Download 3Dmigoto: https://github.com/bo3b/3Dmigoto/releases (ordering is weird, latest is "3Dmigoto-1.3.14.zip").

Edit: To get reshade compatibility, download version 1.2.73 instead (install process is the same otherwise), the developers are working on a fix though: https://github.com/bo3b/3Dmigoto/releases/tag/1.2.73

- Unzip the file

- Open the extracted folder and go into the "x64" subfolder.

- Select everything inside it and press Ctrl + C to copy it

- Go to "[your steam library location]\steamapps\common\ACE COMBAT 7\"

- Paste the files so that d3d11.dll is next to Ace7Game.exe

Part 2:

- Open "d3dx.ini" with your preferred text editor (don't use Word or WordPad, Notepad++/Sublime Text is preferred but normal Notepad works as well)

- Search (Usually Ctrl + F) for "hunting=1" and change the "=1" to "=0"

Part 3:

- Go to https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mart ... eplace.txt

- Save the file (Ctrl+S) to the "ShaderFixes" folder in the game directory which got copied alongside 3Dmigoto. (Note: Verify the file is called "9958a636cbef5557-ps_replace.txt", make sure Explorer is set to show file extensions)

Part 4:

Launch the game, it should stretch the HUD to any resolution.

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Bugs and Issues:

- Original aspect ratio but centered HUD would be preferable

- The background for the map does it's own thing for some reason and doesn't stretch

There may be other bugs but from the very limited testing I did it didn't seem to add any bugs over the usual ultrawide issues.

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It's pretty late over here and I have other stuff to do tomorrow so I just decided to release it now, the fix is pretty rough at the moment but at least it makes the game finally properly playable. I will definitely keep trying to improve the fix but if there are any 3Dmigoto magicians around here, feel free to do your thing.

I really hope that we can get the game very soon up to almost native ultrawide standards.

By the way, regardless of ultrawide fixes, I highly suggest checking out 3Dmigoto, the software can do some incredible things with 3D graphics that I can't even attempt to all explain here, just be aware that it has a crazy learning curve and documentation could be better.

Oh, very promising progress. Please keep it up. And don't forget your triple wide friends along the way please!

Many Thanks , that look so goood !!!

Hey good job man, reviewing the code of that... yea I definitely didn't pay enough attention in Shader class. Do you remember what you had to change in there, out of curiosity?

I've been watching the the guild <Method> try to get world first on some boss in world of warcraft, the boss has some AoE blizzard that obfuscates the play field, bet that 3Dmigoto could really help negate that ^_^.


P.S. I did figure out how to modify the HUD to be pink, if anyone's interested in that.

You can see the diff from the unmodified shader here (ignore the timestamps): https://gist.github.com/martinsstuff/c6 ... /revisions

r2.xyzw = t1.Sample(s0_s, r1.xz).xyzw;

to

r2.xyzw = t1.Sample(s0_s, v0.xy).xyzw;

Hardest part was finding out what shader to modify, there also seems to be a sort of "margin" shader somewhere that is preventing me from just moving the HUD the normal way because it makes everything outside the 16:9 area on the left side of the screen without the fix transparent. (It also affects some other parts of the UI and causes them to become become partially cropped outside of their original position).

Edit: I attached a screenshot showing this. In the screenshot I set it so that you can see the weird "stretching" effect when it leaves that original 16:9 area (when fully centered the lower right part of the hud is entirely gone). You can also see the circles on the map going outside the box because I disabled scissor clipping on the HUD for testing.

Edit 2: I also attached a shot of the menu with that fix applied, note the cropped text.

Edit 3: Reuploaded image with HUD which shows the disabled scissor clipping of the lines/circles on the HUD. (The misaligned player and friendly aircraft icons on map are because they use a different shader which I didn't mess with at that point)

nice improvement thanks Winkelmann , finally Crosshair in center

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Can anyone tell me how/where I must enter the two values for main menu and in-gameplay please? I'm new to cheat-engine...
The FOV-Changer for german keyboards is working now (thank you) but I always have to press those buttons to change FOV for the tiny menus and the gameplay.

It would be much more convenient if I could save those FOV values somewhere/somehow. This could be made with cheatengine, right? I just don't know how I can set those TWO values, so that the menu is not so tiny anymore AND the gameplay-FOV stays normal for triple-screens...

i've made compatibility to get working with reshade . copy the files to your installation path

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You Should Create new hotkeys
How to ?

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Sorry for being noobish again, but I googled „Reshade“: it’s a third-party-software. Do I need to download and install it (like I should do with the CheatEngine-software) or do I really only have to copy your files in my game-directory?

Please be transparent with what you did to fix the issue.

All you did was bundle my fix with version 1.2.73 of 3Dmigoto. Which you can download here by the way: https://github.com/bo3b/3Dmigoto/releases/tag/1.2.73 - Installation is the same as with the newer version.

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If you aren't using reshade already you don't need the fix. If you like messing around with post processing (or want to try it out), you can find the official website here: https://reshade.me/

Note that it uses a technique to inject in the application that is somewhat similar to methods used by malware so it usually gets flagged by some anti-malware software when a new version comes out (which just did a couple hours ago) but it should get whitelisted pretty soon.

To install just download the installer tool and run it, find the Ace Combat 7 directory and select the game executable, then click DirectX 10+ and it should install, when prompted download the effects pack and follow the instructions that will pop up on the top of the screen when you boot up the game.

i only tweaked d3dx.ini to fix issue being crash when using reshade working together. the method hud fix is same as you mentioned before.

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Are you sure? I compared the checksums of the .dll's in your fix to version 1.2.73 of 3Dmigoto and they match. The only difference that I could find was that you instead used the config based on the default for 1.3.14 (not on 1.2.73 even though it's running on that) with the changes being that you disabled the functionality to use folder names to disable mods, and disabled "BuiltInCommandListUnbindAllRenderTargets", neither of which fix the ReShade issue on 1.3.14. The fix here is simply that you used the older version.

haha lol i didn't know that version i've been modded is same as previous 3Dmigoto version

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I tried playing with Winkelmann's mod and Susahamat's SweetFX fix and it does indeed work! We can now happily play the game in ultrawide! Thank you both so much!! The only other important thing I see that needs to be centered is the radio chatter subtitles, which are still off to the side, so sometimes I look to the wrong place and miss what was said. The control tips are off-center as well, but those are less important, as they only appear in the first mission or so.

Anyone else still having the missile issue? I've patched, and repatched, my game multiple times, and I've done the HUD fix, but my main cannon and all missiles keep firing straight towards the ground. Any idea how to fix this? The game is pretty unplayable for me as a result, I can barely hit anything!

did you verify game files ? http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 10#p174410

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I have, forgot to mention it earlier! When my game is unpatched, the missiles work fine, but when patched, they seem to just shoot into the ground! Any ideas?

try use manual fix http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 97#p174397

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Well the Ultrawide fix for 32x9 works flawlessly for me, but the HUD is still off-center, even after trying the manual fix. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong somewhere.

This is epic, Really love the game with this fix

did you use this hud fix method make some hud are in center http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 83#p174483

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Yep, I followed those directions to the letter but the hud is still off to the left.

I may need to start all over with a fresh install of the game and try again.

At any rate, I appreciate the effort from everyone who contributes to these fixes, and BOO to the developers for not taking the small amount of care it would require to have these things implemented properly out of the box.

And don't get me started on the joystick issue!

Figured out my issue, I originally did the patch manually, and I must've edited a wrong set of data along the way; reinstalling the game and using your autoinstaller fixed my issue! Thanks!

Could you please post screenshots of your main game directory (where the executable is) and the ShaderFixes directory? I am really curious if there are certain resolutions or edge cases where this shader doesn't work and want to make sure that this isn't an incorrect install issue.

Edit: Reworded post a bit for clarity.

I'm trying a complete re-install first, to see if I messed something up, which I suspect I did. If I still have trouble, I'll be sure to post the folders.

Ok, HUD still not working, after a clean install. Attached are my folders:

Remove the .txt at the end of 9958a636cbef5557-ps_replace.txt so it looks like 9958a636cbef5557-ps_replace

Since this is the second time this has happened to someone and I just found out you can set in gist how the file should be called when downloaded I modified the install instructions so that you only have to save it now.

Here's hoping there is further development on this title. Thank you for the work so far.

In triple wide, the HUD, while centered, is stretched so dramatically that it is distracting.

The other bugs like tiny menus is less important, but further improvement would be very nice.

Took the steps laid out in this thread and wrote a python script to do some of these fixes automatically. Thanks Susahamat and Winkelmann for your efforts!

Can you tell me if FOV must be fixed while the game is loaded into memory (using CE), or can it be set in the exe like resolution prior to running? If it can, then I can add FOV fix to the script maybe, and eliminate the need for CE.

https://github.com/mpm11011/ac7-ultrawide

nice thanks for contribution in here @markuscicero5 .fov you can find the address in here http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=32997 using the table

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I got a 3 Monitor Setup @ 5760 x 1080 (think that would be 48:9). I tried everything but no matter what I do I don't get it to work properly. I don't care about the HUD being on the outer Monitors, Just wanna play the game on all Monitors. Can somebody help me out here or point me into the proper direction.

Thank you

Thanks Susahamat. So the hex address in Ace7Game.exe is 0x02535A58? How many bytes from that address do we need to overwrite? I think it looks like 5 bytes, by default the values are A0 32 9F 41 01.

And, do I understand correctly that if I were to take your FOV numbers, for example 0.01097534339, translate it to Hex, I have to input the hex values in *reverse* order at that address?

EDIT: Alright, I figured out what I was doing wrong.

The answer to my last question is yes. The bytes are stored backwards in the exe, compared to what you see when you view the value as hexadecimal in CE.

For the first question, the answer is no. The address for the FOV in the exe is 0x02534658. 0x02535A58 is just where that address is loaded into memory when you run the game. I had these two confused.

Furthermore, I thought I was hex editing the resolution, not the FOV. And I was not even using the correct address. So I am fixing that now in the script. Had to restore the exe from backup.

OK, last question: do we need to do any hex editing for the resolution at all? It seems like the answer is no, but I want to confirm that.

i added picture to point you the address http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 97#p174397



No , Just one instance 41 2C 00 4C 89 CB 0F 29 this is universal fix for all aspect ratio to remove black bars, only field of view is diferent based on resolution or aspect ratio

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Thank you Susahamat, those pictures helped make sure I had the right addresses.

Has any progress been made on the shaders, menus, HUD, etc? Or does anyone have some documentation on it? I'd like to tackle those next.

Hey everyone I need some people to test something for me really quick:

Download this and replace the my old 3Dmigoto shader fix: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mart ... eplace.txt

If you are not using 3440x1440: take your screen width and divide it by 2, find "r1.x -= 0.1720;" and replace ONLY "1720" with whatever the result is.

So for example: "r1.x -= 0.1280;" for 2560x1080.

Edit: I just tested if this works for me if I run my screen at 2560x1080 but the HUD is offset to the left, that the value was 1720 might've been either a coincidence or it for some reason calculates based on the native res and not the game res.

Edit 2: I'm gonna check back tomorrow and see if there is any feedback.

My goal is to get the centered HUD working (figure out how people can calculate their own value), and then I'm out for now, the map background and subtitles really don't seem to want to move and I feel like I am just wasting time trying to change that. I hope that some CE magician will come by and bless us with a cheat engine table like with MGSV and we'll all be happy (I'm just asking to please provide source code/hex info when CE table isn't an option!).

thanks winkelman , nice improvement of course. no more Stretched HUD here , the issue crosshair hud not in center but aint big deal for me hehe

EDIT: try this value for 32:9 is r1.x -= 0.4990 . known issues : subtitles and tutorial hints are mislplaced

EDIT2: for 48x9 is r1.x -= 1 correct me if i'm wrong

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Yeah, this is exactly what I am try to fix at the moment, what I used to center it is ReShade and the built in crosshair of the Depth3D shader that comes with the shader pack it suggests when installing. You should be able to get it completely centered this way.

Does the 3440x1440 executable work with a monitor with a resolution of 3840x1600?

My display monitor model name is Dell U3818DW (21:9)

2560x1080 = AA 05 33 3C
3440x1440 = ED D1 33 3C
32: 9 = FC CF 65 3C
48: 9 = 70 7B 8B 3C

Do these codes mean aspect ratio? Does it mean resolution?

Ah hah! Things are cooking now! Closer and closer.

Great work guys. Just about reached a level where I'm gonna have to donate for these efforts.

Susahamat, we have your link. Winkelmann, please include your donation link.

(48:9 user here)

I really appreciate that you want donate but I do not accept donations, please consider donating another modder, open-source project or charity.

yes it does

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Holycow, this simple fix made the game in almost perfect gameplay-wise

I'm following this thread since day 1, I've created this account just to be able to say how thankful I Am to you guys.
This is what I call passion and dedication, you guys are awesome.

Noob here !

For triple monitor game play its BEST to dl and install the fixes by susahamat located on page 1 correct? All help is greatly appreciated..

yup , you should manual fix for your monitor the links on page 1

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hi, any chance to fix this?
not sure what i missed

my res is 2560x1080, but the hud still a bit of center, is that right?

So for the latest HUD fix: if I'm on 5760x1200. I divide 5760 by 2, which yields 2880. So that *should* be the right value for folks using 3x16:10, am I right? Hopefully it centers everything.

"0.1665" seems almost good for 2560x1080.

And I found guide circle of bunker buster stretches vertically.
(not a big problem)

Edit: When I draw center line in screenshot with photoshop, "0.1667" make HUD in center completely.
The value might mean "1/6"

I'm a bit confused on those hex values. 3440x1440 is 8E E3 18 40 for the aspect ratio, and 70 0D A0 05 for the resolution itself. Neither of those match the ones you gave. So if I'm trying to get 5760x1200 (48:10), what would the values be since none of the ones on the Common HEX Values page don't work? (I tried both resolution and aspect ratio.)

Edit: I also tried 40 B0 16 80, and 40 99 99 9A, and those didn't work either. Just missing one line of hex, help!

yep isn't common values because this is different method, after you applied AR Fix then you should've to fix field of view http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 97#p174397

for AR 48:10 i calculated value for FOV here the number 0.01702663302 (Float) then convert to hex is 70 7B 8B 3C apply this hex to .exe . btw you'll get tiny user interface in main menu then calibrate by yourself until fit in your center screen here the table http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=32997 , when in gameplay put back float value which I wrote above.

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Ahh, that explains it. I'm gonna need to learn when to convert float to hex, because I wouldn't have guessed it. Thanks susahamat!

On a side note: what would be the correct value for the HUD when edited the ps_replace file?

try this bro r1.x -= 0.850

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Worked perfect, all good to go. Great work guys!

Thanks to everyone for the fix

So guys, can anyone recap the instructions to get everything to work ? I mean with the HUD fixed and everything else, I'm kind a noob about this things.

Winkelmann, very nice update to the HUD! I've implemented it in my python script. I've also automated updating the replace file with the user's screen width divided by 2.

Razgriz, see if this helps: https://github.com/mpm11011/ac7-ultrawide

Hey guys, so I have followed the instructions above and got it working on my 3440x1440p panel. However there appears to be a few small little niggles:

Missions text ( subtitles in the air ) appears to be off center.
The minimap, only about 40% of it is covered with the green background, the rest is transparent.

Are they known issues or did I do something wrong? - I think they may be related to the hud fix, not the resolution patches to the exe.

Aaaand this are the results for 2560x1080

Interesting. So it's not exactly centered, just like Winkelmann said.

In your ACE COMBAT 7/ShaderFixes folder, find the file 9958a636cbef5557-ps_replace.txt, go to line 48. Instead of "r1.x -= 0.1720;" can you replace that with "r1.x -= 0.1667;" See if that works better, someone earlier in the thread had the same problem and that worked for him.

In the meantime, I noticed the following line in the same file:

r0.y = 1.77777779 * cb1[127].y;

1.777... is value of 16 over 9. I wonder what happens if we replace that with 21 over 9...

EDIT: No good. So maybe let's not change that.

Alright, so, the HUD is where it should be, minus the dialogue section.

The problem is, something is not right with the brightness of some parts of the HUD.
And the map is still kinda wonky when opened up.

Yeah I'm noticing that too. There seem to be other shaders that handle dialogue subtitles, map background, and character background. I'm sure we'll be able to identify them soon.

EDIT:

I think I figured out some math that makes more sense for the HUD positioning.

You don't take the horizontal width of your monitor, divide by 2, and stick a "0." at the front.

You first take your total monitor size and scale it down to 1080 vertical pixels. If you run 2x 1080p monitors (32:9), 3x 1080p monitors (48:9), or 2560x1080, you skip this step. But for 3440x1440, the correct result is 2580x1080. Curse monitor manufacturers for not making "21:9" and ACTUAL standard aspect ratio.

Take the resulting horizontal width, subtract 1920 from it (the width of a normal 1080p monitor), divide by 1920 (normal width again), then divide by 2 (center of the screen).

...So for 3440x1440:

2580 - 1920 = 660

660 / 1920 = 0.34375.

0.34375 / 2 = 0.171875 (very close to 0.1720...)

...For 2560x1080:

2560 - 1920 = 640

640 / 1920 = 0.33333

0.33333 / 2 = 0.16666 (which is what we found worked for the 2560 peeps here)

...For 32:9:

3840 - 1920 = 1920 (hmmmm...)

1920 / 1920 = 1... 1/2 = 0.5 (close to what Susahamat said, 0.4990)

...For 48:9:

5760 - 1920 = 3840 (hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...)

3840 / 1920 = 2... 2/2 = 1 (what Susahamat said)

When I follow instructions and manually edit exe for 48:9,
The menu text is so small it's unreadable. Please explain my error in doing this? Appreciate all the help.

Hey, I know there have been further developments below for the numbers but when I go into my .txt file line 48 for me is
" r2.xyzw = t1.Sample(s0_s, v0.xy).xyzw;" Not in the format of "r1.x -=..."

You might not have Winkelmann's latest version of the file. He adds the "r1.x -= ..." Between lines 47 and 48.

I found an invisible bug on the HUD, basically the original positions for the map and characters faces now have this invisible squares that hide the IFF on the HUD, it's not a big deal but it's there.

Yeah I noticed this too
It kind of related to the chat image, somehow it moves to the correct right side but still left an invisible box at the original position of the 16:9 screen
Chat messages still retains at center of 16:9 from the left border
Minor problems, hope they get fixed soon

Hi Susahamat, could you make a 3440 x 1440 CPY version? Here is the exe file: https://dropmefiles.com/qObCu

CPY version is same exe with legit steam . just use the patcher on page 1

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Looking at his files, he made an update 5 days ago that changes the file to auto-calculate by the looks of it. I get the same results using your numbers with the older file version and the new version with no manual edits.

I did not make anything auto calculate. The old fix that stretched the image technically auto-calculated because it was universal but the new one needs to be manually adjusted.

markuscicero5 came up with something I believe: http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 50#p174650

(FYI the new version has the values (or very close to it) for 3440x1440 already in there so if you use that it works out of the box)

Alright, I'm updating my script to get the screen size at the start and doing the math automatically. So you don't have to enter the resolution by hand or do any math.

I also tried my hand at 3dmigoto. This thing is pretty sweet, gotta say. But I hunted and pecked through all the shaders on screen, and I couldn't make the dark mini-map background disappear and reappear. I could make the entire screen black some times, so the possibilities I see are a) that it's part of one of the "all black screen" shaders, or that it's part of the HUD shader already and we just haven't figured out which value it is.

susahamat,

Folllowed your instructs and enabled 5760x1080. Also using your FOV changer - works great. Issues - HUD is on monitor one and not sure how to line that up properly and when restarting or returning to menu - its upside down. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. THANKS !

Thank you for your work susahamat! If you notice during the menu screens there looks like a shader layer that is shifted to the left. could this be the same layer as the background for the radar and radio portraits?

o_o



If you're still asking me, and you mean the green filter applied to the menus, then yes I did notice it. You can definitely disable it using 3dmigoto's hunting feature, but I haven't figured out how to make it permanent yet.

It is also not the same shader as the map background, haven't figured that out yet either.

I have a theory how the background works that I am currently investigating, maybe you can figure something out: I think that the background is a pattern that actually extends over the entire size of the screen, I think even outside the original 16:9 area regardless of fixes BUT it is controlled by some shader that controls its transparency. I think the solution is finding that shader and shifting it.

Regarding the subtitles: I know there is a shader that affects certain text, including subtitles, on the screen, however, it was just dismissed as simply controlling the opacity of the little bloom effect around text, it also affects the HUD text as well regardless of whether it was moved.
I haven't been able to make it do anything except change the bloom around the text.

Pro Tip: Try both the "zero" and "pink" hunting modes, those can uncover some more shaders that affect these two HUD elements.

Hot pink did the trick. See attached. hellothere.png

EDIT: Oh cool, 3dmigoto saves a screenshot with the shader GUID when you hit NUM3 or NUM6. Added that too. e6f41464a78a35c4-ps.jpg

EDIT2: OH NO this shader is huge...

EDIT3: There's actually more than 1 shader that makes up those sections. And the map background position is somehow dependent on whether or not a speaking character is on screen. Uploaded another screenshot. bb2189abc2f519a1-ps.jpg

I think the "bb21..." shader just handles the pattern of the background - like this uniform diamond pattern. And the "e6f4..." shader handles it's position.

EDIT4: AAAAAA so close! I was able to move the map background to its correct position... when no one is talking. fixed_bg1.png

EDIT 5: Now its fixed when people are talking. fixed_bg2.png

EDIT 6: Link to shaders below. Add them to the ACE COMBAT 7\ShaderFixes directory. They're set up for 3440 x 1440 by default, so you will need to change the "0.1719" value as needed for your monitor size.

https://github.com/mpm11011/ac7-ultrawide/tree/master/ShaderFixes

I've followed the fix that Winkelmman told us in the page 5, but now I have stereo disabled and some code / words on the top and bottom.
How to disable it? Thanks!

@lukanyan = make sure change hunting=1 to 0

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Niiice! Now only the subtitles are missing I believe.

I have been saving playing the story for when the fixes are complete, does anyone know if there are parts in the story with other, mission specific elements that are still buggy?

Edit: I have some more info that might help regarding text:

- Relevant Shaders and Buffers:

Vertex Shader: da86a094e768f000 (just put o0.x += SOMETHING in the line before "return;")

^ Moves entire hud including text, including main menu, affected by a ton of issues with clipping and general glitchiness, it's possible to move the HUD entirely and compensate within the individual HUD shaders but they will still experience clipping (see screenshot, test values were 0.1720 in da86. . . and 0.085 in the rest (including your HUD shaders)).

I don't think this is a good idea, even if we manage to get it to work as we essentially have to find every single HUD element that is within that vertex shader and move it back.

I know there is a single pixel shader that affects all the text in the hud including the subtitles, I'll give that another shot later today but I believe I already tried everything with it (only got it to change color), I don't have the hash saved but you can find it pretty easily with pink mode scrolling through pixel shaders (the control hint in first mission is very useful for that because they are probably part of the same shader).

I also found the specific buffers for exactly the text that has to be moved, but I don't know if/how buffers can be moved with 3dmigoto, the lack of documentation can be infuriating sometimes.

Vertex Buffer: e08203e6

Index Buffer: 3e4f8614

Edit 2: I also randomly discovered that you can disable the vignette by setting "r1.y = 0" (from 1) in vertex shader 2dd6baecb6836aeb.

Worked like a charm, thanks man!

I wanted to say thanks for the excellent work on this fix. It's a shame that they weren't willing to make this support native to the game. So far the only issue I am having is my hud is shifted to the left, which makes using the machine gun pretty tough. See how the ALT indicator is right in the center of the screen and the bomb targeting reticle is off to the left? How would I go about fixing this. I am on 3440x1440 and using the default 9958a636cbef5557-ps_replace, e6f41464a78a35c4-ps_replace, and f355a6eae7adfe8e-ps_replace.

Thanks!

Edit:

Not sure why, but this shader fix solved the issue for me.
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mart ... eplace.txt

Not sure if it's older or not because the other 3 I pulled from here:
https://github.com/mpm11011/ac7-ultrawi ... haderFixes

Both of these "should" basically be the same and they work for me. The only difference in the shader for the main HUD positioning from the pack with the map background fix is that the adjusted value is in a different spot (I don't think it makes a difference) and that it is due to the proper calculation one lower than what I quickly came up with by matching the pixels in the old version (the one that you say works for you).

I am using the improved version from markuscicero5 with the map background fix without any issues, from your screenshot it looks like the HUD position is unchanged and the map background as well, this tells me that none of the shader fixes were applied. I think it may have just been a bug that caused the fixes to not apply, try reinstalling Markus's shaders and see if it works now.

Edit: Made text clearer

Yeah sorry I moved the position of the fix on you. My reasoning was that all three of those shaders start with taking cb1[127].y and multiplying by 1.777777. It's no coincidence that that number is equal to 16 divided by 9. So I figured that was where they were handling the size and position of the shader.

from what i gather on the last page i need to change the values
"r0.y = 1.77777779 * cb1[127].y;"
for the 3 "ps_replace.txt" files
so what are values i need for 2560x1080 ...?

No, the method we use adds a new line which we modify. If you use the fixes from here: https://github.com/mpm11011/ac7-ultrawi ... haderFixes

all you need to do is search for the one occurrence of "0.1719" in every of the three shaders and replace it with the corresponding value for your resolution, by default that is for 3440x1440.

Markus explained how to calculate the value for your resolution here: http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 50#p174650

So I applied 3 shaderfix files, adjust the 0.17919 to my screen ratio (which is 0.5). It seems worked great, but why my crosshair is off center like this? how can I fix this?

The crosshair and hud is exactly what these shaders are supposed to fix and do so correctly for me, from what I am seeing it looks like none of the shaders are being applied.

Please send screenshots of your game and "shaderfixes" directory, I think there might've been some error in the install process.

Ok Got it, Thanks
doh sometimes i get this
weird circle on the leftside of the screen/map

Thanks! I thought I changed it already but somehow was still on 1.
Changed it back again on 0 and now it works perfectly Thanks to all for the effort

Woah.

I think those circles are part of the minimap, they grow bigger or smaller depending on how far you are from the currently selected target. I haven't had that issue happen to me though.

Can you post one of the shaders' full text, and tell us what your resolution is?

### EDIT: NEW VERSION WITH WORKAROUND FOR BUGGED CUTSCENE TEXT HERE: http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 50#p174750 ###

Hey everyone, I managed to find a fix for the HUD text as well!

There are a couple bugs related to the fact that certain elements of real time cutscenes and the black box fading in and out certain parts of the UI are part of the same buffer. I am really interested to hear how this behaves, especially on wider screens.

Installation:

Open the d3dx.ini and uncomment "include_recursive = Mods".

Create a folder called "Mods" next to the game executable

Put this file inside: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mart ... extfix.ini

Finally put this in the ShaderFixes folder: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mart ... eplace.txt

This is approximately the correct value for 3440x1440, to adjust it replace "0.2500"

Huge thanks to masterotaku from the Helixmod / 3Dmigoto Discord for helping me figure out how this all works!

We're getting pretty close to full ultrawide support in AC7.

Borderless @ 2560x1080
For the 3 ps_replace.txt files
all i did was edit "0.1719" to "0.16666"

and i manually hex edit the black bar away using susahamat guide on page 2

Winkelmann, nice work! The subtitles are centered, but it seems like most game text got pushed to the right. There's also a rectangle of space on the left that I guess is stuff loading in the background, that is no longer hidden by fade-in-from-black or fade-to-black transitions. It's just like you said. See attached.

Also, can you tell us more about the Mods folder and this ini trick?

Edit: Rewrote fix to properly check for shaders present in a scene without weird workarounds. (also rewrote post)

Installation:

Step 1: Open the d3dx.ini and uncomment "include_recursive = Mods".

Step 2: Create a folder called "Mods" next to the game executable.

Step 3: Download this file and put it in the "Mods" folder: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mart ... extfix.ini

Step 4: Put this (replace if asked) in the ShaderFixes folder: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mart ... eplace.txt

Adjustments are done in the shader file (da86a094e768f000-vs_replace.txt), it comes with approximately the values for 3440x1440, to adjust it modify "0.2500".

Huge thanks to the amazing people on the Helixmod/3Dmigoto Discord: masterotaku for helping me with the initial fix and DarkStarSword for explaining how to implement if statements correctly.

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Edit 2: New and improved explanation on how it all works. (also some small but not functionality changing improvements to the mod, no need to update)

How the mods folder works: It's a way to make stuff that would go into d3dx.ini portable (e.g. just copy the file, no need to copy and paste). I think it should be fairly straightforward.

How the mod works:



^This part allows me to use $in_game to store the state of the HUD (I use it to detect if we are in game or in a cutscene/menu)



This shader checks for the presence of the HUD and if it is there, runs the preset called "ingame"



This just sets $in_game to 1 - the reason we can't do it right in HUDPRESENCE is that due to the order in which 3dmigoto handles different types of shaders, our pixel shader used for hud detection comes after the vertex shader for the hud text.



da86... is the vertex shader that contains the text we want to move, to edit the index buffer which the text is using we need to first mark the vertex shader so 3dmigoto can modify the buffer, this is for performance reasons. We are also only doing this when we are in game (if statement).



3e4f... is the index buffer of our text, this part checks if we are in game and if we are, tells the shader (which reads the value of "z") to behave differently when processing this buffer. The part with "post" is so "z" gets reset when we are done (otherwise it is permanently 1), not sure if "pre" really does anything in this case but I just put it there as well.

The commented out "handling=skip" is for testing purposes (it makes the buffer disappear and does so without needing any shader modifications so it's good for finding where something went wrong).

Edit 3:

I totally forgot to add what I did on the shader:



This loads the parameter from the mod into the shader. (Note: This line can just be anywhere in the same block as the code below, ideally right above it, idk why it ended up a couple lines above it in my shader file but it shouldn't make a difference.)



"o0.x += SOMETHING" normally moves the entire HUD and caused a ton of issues but since it is in the if statement for "z" matching "1" it is only used for the text.

sorry new at this, what do you mean by uncomment? just remove the ; in front of it?

Yes.