Witcher 2 - letter box

[thales100]

Is it true I can run surround NV with out "flawlessws" fix ?

10x !

Yes, you "can", but youll have horizontal bars. :wink:

[elior77]

and white dots...

[dt1000]

Hi there.
I'm running Flawless on V 1.2 of the UK Retail edition of the Witcher 2.
My OS is Windows 7 x64 and I have a pair of nVidia GTX 480s running at 6080 x 1080.
I ran an activated Flawless before starting the game, but rather than removing the vertical bars in cutscenes I just get weird red flashes everywhere instead.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Dan

:)

[HaYDeN]

Hi there.
I'm running Flawless on V 1.2 of the UK Retail edition of the Witcher 2.
My OS is Windows 7 x64 and I have a pair of nVidia GTX 480s running at 6080 x 1080.
I ran an activated Flawless before starting the game, but rather than removing the vertical bars in cutscenes I just get weird red flashes everywhere instead.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Dan

:)

You'll need to tick the Nvidia workaround option.

The way they implemented it for nvidia surround is a bit odd.

[dt1000]

Hi, HaYDeN,
Thanks for the speedy reply! :)

The nVidia workaround was already ticked.
I am using the latest drivers btw.

I get these messages in the status window...

Game Detected: True
Detected Resolution: 160x27
Original Aspect: 1.7778
New Aspect: 5.9259

...does that help? (Probably not...)

[helifax]

Hi, HaYDeN,
Thanks for the speedy reply! :)

The nVidia workaround was already ticked.
I am using the latest drivers btw.

I get these messages in the status window...

Game Detected: True
Detected Resolution: 160x27
Original Aspect: 1.7778
New Aspect: 5.9259

...does that help? (Probably not...)

Hey!

Here is how I do it (playing the game in 3D Surround..where possible):

- Start the game.
- Load the launcher and select "nvidia workaround" and enable the hack.
- Alt+tab to game then alt+tab out.
- Now select "Remove H + V" bars
- Alt tab to game and play.

It seems they did modify something from 1.1 to 1.2
PS: Ocasionaly you will get a red bar or resize of the window for like 1 sec or so. But the frequency is now very less (in the latest edition of flawless).

Hope this helps. If now let us know it;))

[kahilm]

I'm having a problem. I'm running 2x gtx 465's and I used the flawless widescreen to get 2d surround vision to work. The performance I'm getting isn't that great, so I want to go back to 1920x1080. The problem is that I can't... I set the resolution to 1920x1080 in the launcher, but it still loads in 5760x1080. I'm not running the flawless widescreen .exe anymore. I even uninstalled and reinstalled The Witcher 2 but it still always loads in 5760x1080 even though I have it set to 1920.

Anyone else with a similar problem?

[HaYDeN]

I'm having a problem. I'm running 2x gtx 465's and I used the flawless widescreen to get 2d surround vision to work. The performance I'm getting isn't that great, so I want to go back to 1920x1080. The problem is that I can't... I set the resolution to 1920x1080 in the launcher, but it still loads in 5760x1080. I'm not running the flawless widescreen .exe anymore. I even uninstalled and reinstalled The Witcher 2 but it still always loads in 5760x1080 even though I have it set to 1920.

Anyone else with a similar problem?

Welcome to their poor implementation...

A couple of people have asked me if I make changes anywhere else - no I do not, if you are not running flawlessws it has absolutely no lasting effects.

[kahilm]

[quote]I'm having a problem. I'm running 2x gtx 465's and I used the flawless widescreen to get 2d surround vision to work. The performance I'm getting isn't that great, so I want to go back to 1920x1080. The problem is that I can't... I set the resolution to 1920x1080 in the launcher, but it still loads in 5760x1080. I'm not running the flawless widescreen .exe anymore. I even uninstalled and reinstalled The Witcher 2 but it still always loads in 5760x1080 even though I have it set to 1920.

Anyone else with a similar problem?

Welcome to their poor implementation...

A couple of people have asked me if I make changes anywhere else - no I do not, if you are not running flawlessws it has absolutely no lasting effects.

Do you know where resolution settings are stored? I don't see them in any of the bin/config files.

[divertiti]

[quote][quote]I tried using the newest version with my Retail version using eyefinity+crossfire but non of the fixes have any effect...still the two side screens are black. Any ideas?

Are you running flawlessws as admin and you have exe and plugin files in the same folder (not both in desktop or in a folder that has other files)

This is working just fine aside white dots and lightbug. 1.2 retail with 1.2 fix

You are ASUM HaYDeN :rockout

Ya I'm running the tool in its own folder with the plugin button, running as admin, and I tried enabling it before and after I lunch the game, but no effect either way. The tool says it found the process and has changed the FOV, but the two side screens are still black....


HaYDen? Any ideas?

[Amon Amarth]

Well, it seems every single post of mine is that of bad news. Steam 1.2 came out, and once again broke flawless.

I'm seriously disabling auto update now, lol.

[Olstyle]

Do you know where resolution settings are stored? I don't see them in any of the bin/config files.

Look at "Viewport" in "MyDocuments/Witcher2/config/User.ini" .

Still no success in getting SoftTH to work.

[dt1000]

Thanks for the tip helifax.
I tried it out with no joy.
Unless I start Flawless before the Witcher 2. with everything ticked, the game stutters uncontrollably.
In fact, sometimes it stutters even that way.

Is there an easier way to just remove the vertical black bars in the cutscenes?
:(

Thanks,
Dan

[dt1000]

Oh... I've just noticed that I can't change the resolution!

The resolution settings seem to stick when I change them, and changes to all the other graphics options work, but the game seems to be stuck at maximum resolution.

Very, very strange...

Any ideas on how I might fix this?

:(

Dan

[helifax]

Oh... I've just noticed that I can't change the resolution!

The resolution settings seem to stick when I change them, and changes to all the other graphics options work, but the game seems to be stuck at maximum resolution.

Very, very strange...

Any ideas on how I might fix this?

:(

Dan

On my Surround Setup the game takes the resolution from Windows... To change the resolution in game use the "Options" from the Launcher.

As for the flawless. I launch the tool before....but have the "enable" checkbox disabled. I enable it only after the game. If I don't this I get the stutters you mention. Maybe this helps:D

Hope it helps..

[tet5uo]

Yeah, even when I select 1920x1080, the game will still launch in 5760x1080 if i have surround enabled.

If I change my desktop resolution to 1920x1080, the game still launches in 5760x1080. I have to go into the NVCP and actually disable surround spanning entirely to even get The Witcher2 to launch on only one screen.

I like playing this one on a single panel, cause even with 3 GTX480's, I find the FPS suffers too much in surround with the Ultra settings.

[Hounshell]

I had my Witcher 2 Steam game set to "do not update" - for some reason steam reset this setting on me, and started downloading the 1.2 update.

When I noticed, I tried shutting down the update process, and re-setting the game again
to "do not update" - but now steam won't let me play unless i finish the update... sigh.

so the short of it is that now I can no longer play in 6048x1200. :-(

HaYDeN... will you please update your tool again?

Thanks.

[tet5uo]

Yeah, even if you set steam to "do not update automatically" it will still try to get the update when you play the game. You have to start steam in offline mode to get around that.

[Unknownsock]

I've tried everything since the update. My game just doesn't want to work with this, admin, every different setting, start before and after the games launch, previously thought it may just have been with the 1.1 patch when i last played still like this for me.

On my 16:10 screen i still get the black bars, unless i change to my Eyefinity resolution which works but my actual game view doesn't expand horizontally. My Steam overlay reacts to my Eyefinityu resolution, so no problems there.

The fixer seems to be working in the status message info, but to no avail. I can't be the only one right?

[HaYDeN]

Assuming people still care - updating for steam v1.2 now.