3440 x 1440 Ultra-wide Aspect Ratio Fix - SWTOR

[D0n41r_M1Lk]

*IMPORTANT* - Start the game > Go to preferences > Under Graphics setting make sure FULLSCREEN is selected. If not, select it and click apply. This is important our your game will likely crash or get stuck in a load loop.

1. Right-click desktop and select 'NVIDIA Control Panel'.
2. Select 'Manage 3D settings' from left pane of window.
3. Under the 'Global Settings' tab, locate 'DSR - Factors'
4. Click the drop down directly to the right of it and select the checkbox for '2.25x (native resolution)' and then click 'OK' from the box that appears.
5. Click 'Apply' at the lower right hand side on window. The monitor will probably turn off and on a couple times / flicker. This is normal.
6. Start the game up and you should be all good to go! You can no longer use Windowed Mode or Fullscreen windowed mode. This is due to ♥♥♥♥ coding by devs.

This process is for NVIDIA GPU's only. AMD Cards have a similar feature called Virtual Super Resolution. Not sure if this works for those cards, but would not hurt to try. As long as you can end up with a resolution of 5160 x 2160.

This is a fix for those who have troubles with the game refusing to go into a 21:9 aspect ratio, regardless of what resolution you are using, within Star Wars: The Old Republic.
This happens due to the absent minded way the devs coded resolution detection. Most games read your current windows resolution and try to load that, or the next compatible. This game, for whatever reason... uses the actually supported resolutions form the Monitor Hardware itself. This is a big problem when it comes to Ultra-wide because the highest supported resolution is actually an aspect ratio of 16:9. This defaults the game to 3840 × 2160 on every startup after it does is obligatory monitor check, then immediately chooses your selected resolution. So you may have 3440 x 1440 selected, but the aspect ratio is burned in already and can not change, resulting in a stretched image. What this fix does is apply a Dynamic Super Resolution to your monitor that reads as the new highest resolution available. 5160 x 2160. And actual 21:9 aspect ratio. So the next time you boot up your game, it burns in the correct aspect ratio, and applies your current 3440 x 1440 resolution, not without the image stretching. For some reason this only works when in Fullscreen mode. My guess is that the game, for whatever head scratching reason, reverts to the resolution on 5160 x 2160 upon activating windowed mode and glitches out hard. But at least you can actually use your new expensive display the way it was mean to be.

I have an ACER x34 Predator that is native 3440x1440. This fix may not work for everyone, but after a day of searching the internet, I know there is a bunch of people that have this same issue with little success. I had tried all the other methods people suggested, including the use of the shady Custom Resolution Utility, to no avail.

Oh, and this issue had been brought up to the BioWare Team and EA for years now, so no one hold their breath for any hope of a fix... Maybe one day the Ultra-wide crowd can have their cake and eat it too. Until then, I will be your First World Problem megaphone as we dive into the .ini files of all our unsupported games alike!

Cheers!

[Nyxvoncat]

Hey there, I was wondering if you still have this problem after all this time and with new NVIDIA updates and all. This solution worked perfectly until 1 month ago. :(

[Peacebone]

For any AMD GPU users - I've figured out a solution thanks to some advice from OP. I'll describe below exactly what I did to fix - for reference I'm using a Radeon RX 6700XT and a 21:9 resolution monitor:

- Open game and set resolution to 2560x1080 and save settings
- Close game entirely
- Open Radeon control panel (alt+r) and enable Radeon Super Resolution under the Graphics section
- Open game again, the graphics should no longer be stretched horizontally but the UI will still be too big
- So in game set your resolution back to your native (in my case 3440x1440), you should now have both correctly scaled graphics and UI

From what I can tell you'll need to keep doing this anytime you play the game.

[Piyesis]

Yeah, this fix no longer works.

[RedOgreBlade]

I couldn't get this to work ether

[Drelochz]

had this issue with Assassins Creed Syndicate and fixed it with https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=806615157 recently returned to SWTOR and this very similar issue. followed the same steps and made sure to delete any resolution exceeding my monitors native res