Unable to change windowed resolution on PC

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Bought this on Friday to stream (PC, Epic Games store), but unfortunately the game appears to have no resolution options for windowed mode? I can edit the resolution in fullscreen, but this doesn't appear to persist through to windowed mode, meaning that the window ends up about 600x800 instead of 1080 or 1440p, which is how I would normally stream a game as it lets me tab in and out to multitask without causing performance issues. I'm not overly confident that fullscreen is changing the resolution either, as it should be 4K but nothing looks sharp enough for that to be the case. GPU is a 3070, everything else is comfortably above minimum spec and was homebrewed two years ago, latest NVIDIA drivers are installed, and I have a dual monitor setup which the game can see when picking which screen to fullscreen to.

Very happy to wait for a patch as I've got far too many games to get through, but just wondering if anyone has a quick fix for this? I've only really found mentions of the PS5 version and upscaling, or framerate issues on PC - nothing along the lines of a resolution getting stuck.

lomadiahgaming · Answer

@EA_Illium Hiya, I think my original post must not have been clear - it doesn't matter what settings I change the resolution to in fullscreen then move to windowed, it's ALWAYS outputting at this 600x800 ish resolution.

I think that being in fullscreen may also not actually be changing resolution either as text etc doesn't look sharp enough, but it's hard to tell as the game's framerate is unhappy - which is partly why I wanted to try and test it in a 1440p window as that often allows me to stream games without impacting system performance.

Also: refunded on the Epic store and bought on Steam to see if it was anything weird like that. Am on the latest build that just patched today, exact same issue. Happy to wait if it's a known bug etc - waiting on the graphics fixes anyway - but it seems to be a challenge to get hold of anyone who may be able to confirm this or provide a solution.

lomadiahgaming · Answer

Just bumping this again as this has persisted through several game patches and a few NVIDIA driver updates, and the game is still unplayable. So far I have found nothing about a fix, the closest I've gotten to something similar is some folks losing graphics options when starting NG+: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Game-is-choosing-incorrect-graphics-card-in-multi-GPU-systems/m-p/12259143/highlight/true#M912

Does anyone know anything further about broken resolution settings on PC? NVIDIA Control Panel doesn't do a thing, I don't have multiple GPUs, it's definitely outputting to the correct GPU and monitor.

ea_illium · Answer

HI&nbsp;@Lomadiahgaming&nbsp;thanks for bringing this up. Currently to adjust the Resolution enter full-screen mode then adjust it. Once done you can move to full windowed mode.&nbsp;

ft_scarr · Answer

Did you ever fix this? I'm having this exact problem :(&nbsp;

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