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Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 03 Sep 2017, 12:16
by Simiche
Just wondering if anyone has found any other fixes or have experienced this issue themselves as i have tried hex editing and the game setting did display 2560X1080 yet still with "Black Bars" which annoyed me tbh since i'm guessing its because they changed their engine from Unreal to Unity as i tried the same fix for the Original Life is Strange which worked perfectly.
I hope Square Enix at least fixes this asap.
FIXED!!! SEE JACKS POST FOR V2!!!

jackfuste wrote:RustyS51 wrote:I've just tried using this but the resolution remains in 16:9 with black bars, although the resolution displayed in the menu is correct (3440x1440).
Try this one:
LISBTS_V2.part1.rar
LISBTS_V2.part2.rar
Try to switch resolution in menu from 3440x1440 to 1920x1080, then back to 3440x1440. Do you still have black bars?
Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 03 Sep 2017, 15:03
by EpicLPer
Simiche wrote:Just wondering if anyone has found any other fixes or have experienced this issue themselves as i have tried hex editing and the game setting did display 2560X1080 yet still with "Black Bars" which annoyed me tbh since i'm guessing its because they changed their engine from Unreal to Unity as i tried the same fix for the Original Life is Strange which worked perfectly.
I hope Square Enix at least fixes this asap.
Well it's kinda obvious that the same fix that was working for the original Life is Strange won't work on LiS:BtS with a completely different engine.
Tho, since it's Unity, I hope someone will find a fix pretty soon.
One question tho: Can you go "inside" the black bars with the mouse when you do the hex edit? Or what happens when you do so in Windowed Mode, will it stretch the full resolution or still be 1080p? Maybe the resolution just doesn't work right but is still displayed.
Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 03 Sep 2017, 17:01
by susahamat
managed to hex editing resolution is fixed but still black bars. maybe choreography for 16:9 only ??
EpicLPer wrote:Simiche wrote:
One question tho: Can you go "inside" the black bars with the mouse when you do the hex edit? Or what happens when you do so in Windowed Mode, will it stretch the full resolution or still be 1080p? Maybe the resolution just doesn't work right but is still displayed.
yep i can inside mouse in black bars. windowed mode still native res but still have blackk bars on the side
Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 00:39
by Simiche
Well here's a video showing the situation for the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDrrfYw8AyQ
Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 16:48
by susahamat
i dunno maybe is problem with screen size option
Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 05 Sep 2017, 10:31
by jackfuste
For Steam version try to copy only exe file to didn't lose online features. Sometimes it works, but no guarantees.
Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 05 Sep 2017, 13:22
by RustyS51
jackfuste wrote:For Steam version try to copy only exe file to didn't lose online features. Sometimes it works, but no guarantees.
LISBTS.part1.rar
LISBTS.part2.rar
I've just tried using this but the resolution remains in 16:9 with black bars, although the resolution displayed in the menu is correct (3440x1440).
Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 05 Sep 2017, 15:03
by jackfuste
RustyS51 wrote:I've just tried using this but the resolution remains in 16:9 with black bars, although the resolution displayed in the menu is correct (3440x1440).
Try this one:
Try to switch resolution in menu from 3440x1440 to 1920x1080, then back to 3440x1440. Do you still have black bars?
Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 05 Sep 2017, 15:12
by RustyS51
There's no option to change the res in the menu now no arrows appear.

Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 05 Sep 2017, 15:12
by Armin1702
Nice thank you. 2560 x 1080 working.

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Can you tell us the secret, I tried different hex methodes by myself including memory edit method from the latest Walking Dead game. None worked. I got it to display the correct reso in menu but the black bars remained.
Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 05 Sep 2017, 16:29
by susahamat
thanks again jack ! working great with cracked version . i have legit steam version i'll test then, btw DSR is working too make sure change resolution on desktop and use command line argument -window-mode exclusive
Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 05 Sep 2017, 16:42
by RustyS51
Seems to be working fine now thanks.
Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 05 Sep 2017, 17:50
by Simiche
Thanks Jack for the suggestion but i still seem to have issues similar to Rusty

Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 05 Sep 2017, 18:06
by Simiche
jackfuste wrote:RustyS51 wrote:I've just tried using this but the resolution remains in 16:9 with black bars, although the resolution displayed in the menu is correct (3440x1440).
Try this one:
LISBTS_V2.part1.rar
LISBTS_V2.part2.rar
Try to switch resolution in menu from 3440x1440 to 1920x1080, then back to 3440x1440. Do you still have black bars?
Nevermind what i said before, V2 worked perfectly for me, Thank you so much Jack!!!

Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 05 Sep 2017, 19:38
by Korbin
jackfuste wrote:For Steam version try to copy only exe file to didn't lose online features. Sometimes it works, but no guarantees.
LISBTS.part1.rar
LISBTS.part2.rar
Jesus Christ, a dream has come true!
Thank you so much!

Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 05 Sep 2017, 20:27
by koflox
jackfuste wrote:For Steam version try to copy only exe file to didn't lose online features. Sometimes it works, but no guarantees.
Hi, thx for your solution but could you tell us how you did it (for next updates)?
Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 05 Sep 2017, 21:45
by susahamat
for steam version is works great but cant connect online . fine not big deal for me
Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 06 Sep 2017, 18:34
by Trey
jackfuste wrote:RustyS51 wrote:I've just tried using this but the resolution remains in 16:9 with black bars, although the resolution displayed in the menu is correct (3440x1440).
Try this one:
LISBTS_V2.part1.rar
LISBTS_V2.part2.rar
Try to switch resolution in menu from 3440x1440 to 1920x1080, then back to 3440x1440. Do you still have black bars?

Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 09 Sep 2017, 20:59
by Armin1702
Hellow,
cause another release dropped and we are still not getting official support from the devs for widescreen I compared the mod from jackfuste with the "original" exe from the first release to get the values (for future updates, other releases, whatever - i guess as long as denuvo is in the game, we can't use the original exe anyway)
Here they are:
HxD View 16 ANSI hexIt looks like only the first one needs to be changed... didn't test all separately so maybe the other ones take care about the annotations, icons, and so on - can't test 3440 x 1440 either, only 2560 x 1080, so maybe the others are for higher resos. I just copied everything to the co*ex cookie and the game starts fine.
Offset 00056670Orig: 02 89 81 DC 03 00 00 8B 42 04 89 81 E0 03 00 00 8B 42 08
Mod.: 00 00 80 3F 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
Offset 00056690Orig: 8B 42 0C
Mod.: 90 90 90
Offset 0012AFE0Orig: 3B 54 F2 FF
Mod.: 99 D2 F1 00
Offset 001FA020Orig: 32 C0
Mod.: B0 01
Offset 01048270(the strings do have the same length, for some weird case zeros take less space than letters and other numbers...)
Orig:
CC CC 48 89 5C 24 08 57 48 83 EC 70 44 0F B6 89 D9 04 00 00 0F 29 74 24 60 48 8B FA 48 8B D1 48 8B D9 0F 29 7C 24 50 48 8D 4C 24 20 44 0F 29 44 24 40 44 0F 29 4C 24 30 E8 97 7F 00 FF 8B 83 DC 03 00 00 F3 0F 10 64 24 28 F3 0F 10 5C 24 2C F3 44 0F 10 4C 24 20 89 07 8B 83 E0 03 00 00 0F 28 D4 44 0F 28 C3 0F 28 CC F3 0F 10 7C 24 24 89 47 04 8B 83 E4 03 00 00 0F 28 C3 89 47 08 8B 83 E8 03 00 00 89 47 0C 0F 57 D2 F3 41 0F 58 D1 F3 0F 11 4F 08 F3 0F 11 47 0C 0F 28 F2 44 0F 2F CA F3 0F 58 F1 F3 0F 11 17 45 0F 57 C0 E9 AA 81 00 FF
Mod.:
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Have fun

btw thanks again for the values jackfuste
Re: Life is Strange: Before The Storm has no 21:9 Support
Posted: 09 Sep 2017, 23:29
by TaikoFiz
Armin1702 wrote:Hellow,
cause another release dropped and we are still not getting official support from the devs for widescreen I compared the mod from jackfuste with the "original" exe from the first release to get the values (for future updates, other releases, whatever - i guess as long as denuvo is in the game, we can't use the original exe anyway)
Here they are:
HxD View 16 ANSI hexIt looks like only the first one needs to be changed... didn't test all separately so maybe the other ones take care about the annotations, icons, and so on - can't test 3440 x 1440 either, only 2560 x 1080, so maybe the others are for higher resos. I just copied everything to the co*ex cookie and the game starts fine.
Offset 00056670Orig: 02 89 81 DC 03 00 00 8B 42 04 89 81 E0 03 00 00 8B 42 08
Mod.: 00 00 80 3F 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
Offset 00056690Orig: 8B 42 0C
Mod.: 90 90 90
Offset 0012AFE0Orig: 3B 54 F2 FF
Mod.: 99 D2 F1 00
Offset 001FA020Orig: 32 C0
Mod.: B0 01
Offset 01048270(the strings do have the same length, for some weird case zeros take less space than letters and other numbers...)
Orig:
CC CC 48 89 5C 24 08 57 48 83 EC 70 44 0F B6 89 D9 04 00 00 0F 29 74 24 60 48 8B FA 48 8B D1 48 8B D9 0F 29 7C 24 50 48 8D 4C 24 20 44 0F 29 44 24 40 44 0F 29 4C 24 30 E8 97 7F 00 FF 8B 83 DC 03 00 00 F3 0F 10 64 24 28 F3 0F 10 5C 24 2C F3 44 0F 10 4C 24 20 89 07 8B 83 E0 03 00 00 0F 28 D4 44 0F 28 C3 0F 28 CC F3 0F 10 7C 24 24 89 47 04 8B 83 E4 03 00 00 0F 28 C3 89 47 08 8B 83 E8 03 00 00 89 47 0C 0F 57 D2 F3 41 0F 58 D1 F3 0F 11 4F 08 F3 0F 11 47 0C 0F 28 F2 44 0F 2F CA F3 0F 58 F1 F3 0F 11 17 45 0F 57 C0 E9 AA 81 00 FF
Mod.:
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Have fun

btw thanks again for the values jackfuste
These values don't work, causes the game to crash on start
The original values arent wrong for me too
The original EXE offset 00056670 is [ 7A E9 4D 98 A7 C2 C3 70 34 B3 FC DF CF 06 B7 A5 ] which doesn't match your Orig line (none of my original EXE offsets match yours)
I'm trying to get 16:10 working, tried editing the memory to do it but it treats the top of the screen as the bottom of the black bar at the top instead of the actual top of the screen so no matter what i do with that there is always a black bar at the top