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5 years ago
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Mass Effect Legendary WideScreen Fix

Widescreen Support Mass Effect Legendary Edition

Just installed Mass Effect Legendary Edition and the I am unable to select the correct Nvidia Surround Game resolution.

I want to select 5760 by 1080, but game only allows me to pick 3840 *1024, 

Also HUD is stretched with menus (gun and radar) at the extreme edge of screen( see screenshot,

also when you zoom in for shots shepherd is not centered.

Have contacted EA support for this and they will pass on to develops but also requested I post it on the forum.

I thought the legendary edition was gonna support widescreen natively?

Anyone know any solutions

I have a ryzen 9 5900 x, rtx 3080 with 32gb ram

  • vagbond1979's avatar
    vagbond1979
    5 years ago

    HI,

    I am pleased to report thanks to a updated plugin from flawless widescreen,

    You can now run Mass effect legendary with triple monitors with correct resolution and wihout HUD being stretched.

    Well done to the flawless widescreen team.

    Unfortunately Game for me is still unplayable due to the low FPS drops, despite having a ryzen 5900x, rtx 3080 with 32gb RAM.

    I hope the developers fix this issue soon.

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  • I enclose some further screenshots,

    I have tested in Mass effect 3 and have the same issue,

    the HUD is stretched,

    I also enclose a screenshot from original mass effect 3, and I am running flawless widescreen alongside it with Mass Effect 3 plug in installed, and the plug in fixes the HUD, ( see screenshot)

    I would be grateful if the developers can look into this and would be grateful if anyone else has any solutions for this.

  • XXLpeanuts's avatar
    XXLpeanuts
    Rising Novice
    5 years ago

    Yea looks like they didnt learn anything and ignored what modders did to the originals to make them playable on modern systems. I feel cheated, all the reviews even in 32:9 said it was great, its * crashing on first mission also.

  • Yeah I feel very cheated too, normally I dont pre-order games, as I wanna be sure that they support Triple monitor setup with Nvidia Surround,

    https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/mass-effect-legendary-edition-21-9-ultrawide-support/

    I decided to trust PC gamer  and other sources on the net and  pre-order, really annoyed I can't play it properly.

    I hope developers sort it and/or there is a third party software solution or Mod to fix it.

    Another User has posted a video about this also

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-Jj17-16E&ab_channel=XBadgerKnightX

  • vagbond1979's avatar
    vagbond1979
    5 years ago

    HI,

    I am pleased to report thanks to a updated plugin from flawless widescreen,

    You can now run Mass effect legendary with triple monitors with correct resolution and wihout HUD being stretched.

    Well done to the flawless widescreen team.

    Unfortunately Game for me is still unplayable due to the low FPS drops, despite having a ryzen 5900x, rtx 3080 with 32gb RAM.

    I hope the developers fix this issue soon.

  • vagbond1979's avatar
    vagbond1979
    5 years ago

    I enclose some screenshots of triple monitor support (5760*1080) using flawless widescreen.

    Works for all 3 games

  • 1cor1613's avatar
    1cor1613
    5 years ago

    I almost pre-ordered this, but after getting burned on Cyberpunk and Death Stranding on their problematic triple screen/NVIDIA Surround results, I held off. I'm glad I did. I was really happy with the results I had with Horizon Zero Dawn and several tomb raider games I tried, which were my first forays into triple screen adventure gaming after getting my 3090. Even got Rogue Squadron, Flight Simulator and several racing games working with NVIDIA Surround without much effort.  Now I'm beginning to wonder if I had stumbled into the few exceptions rather than the rule. If anyone notices any improvement on Mass Effect Legendary edition on triple screen support, please update so I can reconsider purchasing it. Never played any of them before Legendary came out, but I'd rather just play other content that works well with my set up in the meantime, even if that stretches into forever.

  • Sadly it is very hit and miss these days whether games have native ultrawide and/or triple monitor support.

    sometimes its only partially supported.

    Can be annoying when HUD is stretched, for some games it is playable but not for all.

    (I am putting up with HUD stretch on call of duty cold war at the moment,)

    I am not making mistake myself again of pre-ordering a game as I rely on this support for the majority of games I play with M&K, 

    We represent less than 1 percent of the gaming community.

    Fortunately we have modders out there who kindly develop solutions to fix these issues.

    Flawless widescreen works well for a lot of games I have played.

    If you not already a member join 

    https://www.wsgf.org/

     they have a discord server too with an active community available to offer support and solutions.

    Happy gaming

  • 1cor1613's avatar
    1cor1613
    5 years ago

    @vagbond1979 wrote:

    Sadly it is very hit and miss these days whether games have native ultrawide and/or triple monitor support.

    sometimes its only partially supported.

    Can be annoying when HUD is stretched, for some games it is playable but not for all.

    (I am putting up with HUD stretch on call of duty cold war at the moment,)

    I am not making mistake myself again of pre-ordering a game as I rely on this support for the majority of games I play with M&K, 

    We represent less than 1 percent of the gaming community.

    Fortunately we have modders out there who kindly develop solutions to fix these issues.

    Flawless widescreen works well for a lot of games I have played.

    If you not already a member join 

    https://www.wsgf.org/

     they have a discord server too with an active community available to offer support and solutions.

    Happy gaming


    Thanks, I'll check out flawless wide-screen. If it is easy enough, I may go for some of the mods. Overall, I'm not into spending hours tweaking mods anymore. In my increasingly older age, I'm finding that sonewhere about a decade ago the thrill of spending days tweaking my configs just so I can get a few hours of enjoyment got deflated, especially when the tweaks keep on having to be performed when stuff gets updated or to have to do the same level of effort with yet another title in my library. 

    my rant: I get that outside of vehicle type games there isn't much (any?) focus on native triple screen, but I figured that NVIDIA Surround would kind of just do its thing in the background so that devs don't have to do much of anything to "support" it. But I suppose I'm doing a disservice to them when I assume as much.  

    Anyway, I hope to hear about when ME Legendary gets to the point where I can triple screen with it. Maybe flawless will be able to get me there, that would be great and then maybe I'll pick up a copy at that time. Thanks!

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