Dark Souls III - 21:9 Broken

[chichi007]

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;)

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

[pyide]

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

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

[Willyard]

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

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:

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compressed window mode at start

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[pyide]

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.

[Razed]

You can try this for 2560 x 1080:

-SNIP-

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.

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)

-SNIP-

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

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!)

[Blood101]

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

[ColdSun]

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.

[helifax]

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... ^_^

[ColdSun]

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.

[pyide]

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.

[ColdSun]

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.

[Solkrieg]

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?

[ColdSun]

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

[Solkrieg]

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).

[mick50008]

You can try this for 2560 x 1080:

1) HEX
Find this HEX string:

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800700003804

Change it to:

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000A00003804

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

[Martan]

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:

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

'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

[helifax]

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.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkSouls2/com ... important/

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:)

[mvfcarvalho]

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

[stra1]

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

[mvfcarvalho]

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 ?