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K4HOOLO
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23 days ago

Ultrawide | 21:9 and 32:9 | Can we get a fix?

Hello,

There has been an ongoing issue with Star Wars The Old Republic when using 21:9 and 32:9 resolutions for several years now. Players with ultrawide monitors are seeing the UI scale correctly but the rest of the game world stretches out, making everything look distorted. I have recently spent many hours trying CRU, Widescreen Fixer, Flawless Widescreen, and other tools to fix this, but no luck.

With the current modernization patches, is there any chance we can finally get a solution to this? From what I have seen, this is a common issue among ultrawide players, and it has honestly discouraged a lot of us, including myself, from playing as much as we would like.

If anyone has suggestions I might have missed, I would be happy to hear them. I have tried almost every suggested fix, but so far nothing has worked.

Thank you for your time,
Kahoolo

PS: I am playing on a Samsung Odyssey G9 at 5120x1440 and 240hz. Out of all the games I play, including many other MMOs and even older Bioware titles, this is the only game that has this issue. I would love to immerse myself in this universe again.

PPS: Please do not mention CRU. I have spent too much time trying that already. :D

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  • Hey dude.

    I can see what you have been trying with your setup as a workaround, however there are some fundamental errors on your end, in how you're addressing the problems you are facing.

    Please consider utilising this old guide that I did years ago, step by step, starting with installing DX9C; then working through the graphics settings for Windows, Your Vid Card Software, then finally the game.....

    **I believe that you have image stretching going on, because your resolution settings is not 'normalised' across all three specific settings/programs....

    1: Windows's default display settings - setup
    2: Your Video Card's display settings - setup
    3: The Game's display settings - setup

    Make all 3, the native resolution of your monitor.

    I suspect that you have 'Scaling settings' not quite right, aswell as 'resolution' settings 'off' in one of the 2 areas (Windows/Video Card Sortware).

    Don't forget the 'editing' *.exe properties to run as 'Admin', with the windows hidden improvements turned off.

    Do this and I would expect that your issues are no more..... this guide works for EVERY GAME, in EVERY PLATFORM.... with minor 'file specificity' tweaks.

    My kids still use this guide to this very day, as young adults.

    Have fun

    Woody.

    https://forums.ea.com/discussions/star-wars-the-old-republic-en/guide-how-to-install-swtor-correctly-and-address-windows-10-issues/10760168

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