PLEASE add 21:9 support. It's almost 2025

[Talaith]

Even old games have 21:9 IT'S ALMOST 2025! You can say it's unfair in multi - OK. SO MAKE 16:9 ONLY IN MULTIPLAYER, let me just play offline in 21:9, what's the problem FS? And it's not only about 21:9 because this game don't have support for even 16:10 (for the Steam Deck for example). For me it's a cringe that BIG company like From Software is so lazy about that. Almost all indie games have this, almost all games from even 2000 works with ultrawides (like Gothic for example). And the best is - ER have 21:9 support but FS limited this with black bars xD It's some rocket science to me.

[Senki]

i'm so glad I always have elden ring complain posts to remind me what year it is

[nfinite.recursion]

What does the year have to do with some arbitrary aspect ratio?

[Marvdny]

Originally posted by Senki:

i'm so glad I always have elden ring complain posts to remind me what year it is

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

What does the year have to do with some arbitrary aspect ratio?

For me it's very simple - ER came out in 2022, so we are 3 years later, and still they didn't add ultrawide support. For me it sucks, because I have 21:9 to, and I must play on ♥♥♥♥♥♥ 16:9 TV instead of my 21:9 OLED monitor. It's awful. They're like Nintendo - still in 1995 in some aspects.

[nfinite.recursion]

But what does the year have to do with an aspect ratio? What is the logical reasoning here?

[Lord Bob]

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

But what does the year have to do with an aspect ratio? What is the logical reasoning here?

2025 = 2+2+5 = 9
U L T R A W I D E = 9 letters

The root of 9 is 3 = Half Life 3 confirmed.

[nfinite.recursion]

Originally posted by Lord Bob:

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

But what does the year have to do with an aspect ratio? What is the logical reasoning here?

2025 = 2+2+5 = 9
U L T R A W I D E = 9 letters

The root of 9 is 3 = Half Life 3 confirmed.

Best news all year!

Though I have to wonder if it means Elden Ring will get ultrawide AND Half Life 3 will be confirmed, or if it's going to be one or the other. If the latter then the loss of ultrawide is already forgotten as Half Life 3 is just too important.

[1100011]

ehmm... you can use UW offline? (with the mod that has been discussed on here 1043054 times?

[Noop]

I don't see why the devs should take responsibility for players being stupid. If you buy a monitor that very few people have and nobody really cares for as it's way less useable as regular monitors then that is a you issue, not the dev's issue.

[shponglefan]

Originally posted by Noop:

I don't see why the devs should take responsibility for players being stupid. If you buy a monitor that very few people have and nobody really cares for as it's way less useable as regular monitors then that is a you issue, not the dev's issue.

The thing is the game does support ultrawide resolutions natively. The devs explicitly added black bars to cover up the sides of the screen to force a 16:9 aspect ratio, even though the game is rendering a 21:9 image.

The devs have actually done more work to make players with UW monitors have a worse experience.

[Lord Bob]

Originally posted by shponglefan:

Originally posted by Noop:

I don't see why the devs should take responsibility for players being stupid. If you buy a monitor that very few people have and nobody really cares for as it's way less useable as regular monitors then that is a you issue, not the dev's issue.

The thing is the game does support ultrawide resolutions natively. The devs explicitly added black bars to cover up the sides of the screen to force a 16:9 aspect ratio, even though the game is rendering a 21:9 image.

But adding black bars rather suggests that UW is not supported, no?

Don't get me wrong, I see how the game rendering in UW at first only for black bars to appear leads to assume that UW would be supported. But the black bars were added for a specific reason, and that reason might be to not include UW support.

Whether or not the bars were added as a quick and dirty solution to block an UW aspect ratio or because of artistic choices or any other reason is up for interpretation

Originally posted by shponglefan:

The devs have actually done more work to make players with UW monitors have a worse experience.

While I wish UW had been added more than two years ago already, I kind of fail to see how your experience is worse compared to someone who does not play on an UW setup, as the game's content simply does not change depending on the size of your monitor, or even compared to someone who tolerates the black bars and takes the game for what it is.

Seriously, you'll have a great time playing through Elden Ring and focus on the gameplay, the lore and the silly characters instead of the black bars.

[shponglefan]

Originally posted by Lord Bob:

But adding black bars rather suggests that UW is not supported, no?

Don't get me wrong, I see how the game rendering in UW at first only for black bars to appear leads to assume that UW would be supported. But the black bars were added for a specific reason, and that reason might be to not include UW support.

It's supported in the sense that it's fully rendering in UW aspect ratio, but being artificially covered up.

Any time I do a driver update, the game will temporarily glitch and fail to render the black bars. This is a screen shot taken native (no mods), with the black bars failing to render:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3380934202

While I wish UW had been added more than two years ago already, I kind of fail to see how your experience is worse compared to someone who does not play on an UW setup

By worse I'm saying that the game could be experienced in ultrawide, but the devs have blocked that option via rendering black bars.

It is making the experience worse than it otherwise could be for UW monitor owners.

Seriously, you'll have a great time playing through Elden Ring and focus on the gameplay, the lore and the silly characters instead of the black bars.

I've had a great time playing the game. That's not the point.

[ReMaKc]

Originally posted by Noop:

I don't see why the devs should take responsibility for players being stupid. If you buy a monitor that very few people have and nobody really cares for as it's way less useable as regular monitors then that is a you issue, not the dev's issue.

Ok so because you dont have an ultrawide monitor they shouldnt support it for everyone else that does? Okay. Clown of the year award here. There is no reason for them to not support it in this day and age. Blocking ultrawide for slight multiplayer vision advantage is so stupid for a third person boss fighter thats not pvp focused, balanced or an esports game. This would be the perfect game for ultrawides but they block it with black bars for no good reason. OP is right.

[stratzilla]

Originally posted by ReMaKc:

Originally posted by Noop:

I don't see why the devs should take responsibility for players being stupid. If you buy a monitor that very few people have and nobody really cares for as it's way less useable as regular monitors then that is a you issue, not the dev's issue.

Ok so because you dont have an ultrawide monitor they shouldnt support it for everyone else that does? Okay. Clown of the year award here. There is no reason for them to not support it in this day and age. Blocking ultrawide for slight multiplayer vision advantage is so stupid for a third person boss fighter thats not pvp focused, balanced or an esports game. This would be the perfect game for ultrawides but they block it with black bars for no good reason. OP is right.

It's so stupid because the game DOES render in ultrawide, it just overlays pillars to crop to 16:9. If you select 3440x1440 for example, it is WORSE performance than just running it at 2560x1440 despite the visible area being the same.

If the excuse is for multiplayer, then overlay the pillars the moment you're invaded or summon someone or whatever. Keep it 21:9 for PvE, that's a fine compromise.

[Fripposo]

shut up man.

[vamirez]

*rubbing my temples*
...I see ultrawide in 2027...