I’m not actually sure what to call this issue, so if you know a better term please let me know.The issue is that everything looks stretched out vertically. Circles look like ovals on the native resolution. It looks this way on every screen that I watch a video about BF2042. It’s not a screen issue to be clear. It’s that the dimensions, scaling, or whatever is going makes everyone look very skinny and any circular UI element to look like an oval. This has been bugging me forever. I have to play with a stretched resolution to make the game playable, otherwise it just looks dumb to me. I don’t have this issue with any other game.Anyone else feel like this? I can’t be the only one. I don’t remember feeling like this about other BF games. I’m going to reinstall BFV and see how that looks.

@sk1lld I have a 34" 1440p ultra wide.I'm saying on the native resolution on my monitor (21:9) the game looks way too tall. Everything looks stretched vertically. This isn't a hardware issue, but a game design choice. I felt the same with my 27" 1440 monitor as well. It looks weird watching videos on my phone. Pay attention to anything that is a circle, they look like ovals.The game isn't 16:9. You can choose whatever resolution that you need to for your monitor?

@RaginSamI don't know, haven't noticed anything unusual. I've cycled through 1080p 21:9, 1440p 21:9 for the past 5 years or so and now on 1600p 21:9Personally, I don't see any distortions. After reading your post, I've played a few games and made sure to pay attention to round objects / objective bubbles etc and I don't see any problems with it.Now mind you I've been playing on 21:9 monitors in BF1/BF5/BF2042. I haven't noticed any scaling issues personally.I do have another gaming PC with 24" 1080 panel. Might install BF2042 there and see how it looks compared to my 38" 3840x1600p monitor

@UP_LordPlumber Thanks for paying attention to everything and giving feedback.I reinstalled BFV and it's honestly the same thing. Everything just looks too tall and skinny, but I think it was a conscious choice. It's been a trend now, especially for military type shooters to "stretch" everything vertically to try and replicate real life. To me, it just looks weird and characters are too skinny. It's not what real life looks to me.In BFV I tried turning down my FOV and it helped a little. I also turned it to max and that actually made things look more proportionate overall.It's also partly because I've been playing on this stretched resolution for a while now. I had a more curved monitor for about a week, and when I switched back to a regular flat panel it felt convex for about a day. It was weird. So I'm sure that doesn't help either. Still, I switched in the first place for a reason.I guess that I should be happy that the game actually looks pretty good with a stretched resolution. Most games do not. The trend of trying to make everything "realistic" is something that I'd like to see go away. I want to shoot at normal sized healthy people, not 110 lb. 6' tall guy zooming around.

@RaginSamcan you share a pic/video of it? I haven't noticed it on my end (I play at 4K on PC)

@RaginSamBF2042 uses a 16:9 resolution scale, any resolution other than 16:9 will look odd.What resolution are you running?

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RaginSam
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@EA_Atic I just spent over half an hour typing a reply to this and the forums actually just deleted it for some random reason... wtf

This is the monitor I'm using Benq EX3415R

I wanted to say thanks for motivating me to try different settings and take some screenshots. The sights are actual circles when putting something circular up to the screen. The UI elements still look a little oval and like rectangles, but I need to spend a little more time paying attention to that. The game was definitely designed for 16:9 with things like the deployment screen being centered instead of taking up the entire screen, so I think that doesn't help my perception of scale when that's the first thing I see.

I don't think it's the game anymore, and it's not my monitor. It's more to do with how I perceive things and my preferences. I honestly don't really like military shooters all that much, but Battlefield has always been the outlier and my favorite shooter of all time. It has always felt smoother and more fluid kinda like a very toned down Arena shooter if that makes sense.

My preference is definitely characters that are bigger and wider, because that looks more natural to me in a video game setting. When using real world dimensions and applying that to a screen, it just doesn't translate well in my opinion. Things look too tall and skinny. VR is the only exception of that, but it's more than just a screen at that point.

I appreciate you reaching out and replying Atic!
OskooI_007
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I believe the UI elements are rendered separately from everything else and overlayed on top of the game graphics. Some upscaling techniques such as FSR 2.0 render the UI at native 4k resolution for text clarity, but render the rest of the graphics at a lower resolution for increased performance.
So the UI can be stretched, resized, and renderer at different resolutions and aspect ratios without it affecting the actual game graphics because the UI is being rendered separately and overlayed on top of the game graphics.

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