21:9 Monitor and FOV

[•✪ GMan79 ✪•]

I have noticed weird stretching on the edges on my 21:9 3440x1440px monitor.
What FOV settings other ultrawide players use to circumvent this?

[Wille84FIN]

Haven't found a fix for this yet.. Too many consule gamers (16/9) on PC still for developers to care for ultrawide it seems. Kind of disappointing tbh, i'm never going back to 16/9 screens again.

[hotNcold]

I've settled on a FOV of 85. One other setting I adjusted which seems to help, which may be just a coincidence, was to turn off film grain (bottom of graphics settings). Test some things out and let us know if you find something that works better for ya!

[•✪ GMan79 ✪•]

At the moment I think 106° feels okayish for me.

People in the sim racing community use this formula to get their proper FOV.

tan(screen_width * 0.5 / screen_to_eye) * 180 / pi * 2

unfortunately I think this doesn't apply to a single monitor setup and sons of the forest.

[Cosmic]

The problem is many games dont use the correct aspect ratio for ultra widescreen, they just stretch the typical 16:9 resolutions, which just results in this awful fisheye effect. Whilst the fish eye effect is by design and looks ok mostly on 16:9 on 21:9 stretched it looks like total ♥♥♥♥.

They either need to auto detect ultra widescreen resolutions and adjust the screen edge effect (like The Long Dark) or they need to add vertical and horizontal FOVs. Wouldn't hold out hope though, if they hadn't done it before release during the very basic graphical and menu setups, its highly doubtful they will now.