Guilty Gear - Strive - Ultrawide/21:9 patch

[KingKrouch]

I decided that I would put together a 21:9 patch for Guilty Gear Strive. It's far more straightforward than Granblue Versus (Which handles pillarboxing in very jank ways), and GGS not only can hit 60FPS maxed out at 3440x1440 on a GTX 1060, but it doesn't have any of the resolution related issues that Xrd has, outside of not being able to go above 100% for resolution scaling.

So far, this seems to have very little issues, outside of the player health bars being stretched, and the Technical meters on the bottom of the screen being slightly skewed, due to incorrect anchoring. I think that ArcSys could add native 21:9 support to the game, as they'd just need to fix these UI issues, remove pillarboxing, and then make the in-game FOV use a Hor+ scaling system rather than Vert-.

Screenshot:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2513707541

Hex Editing Instructions (Doesn't rely on installing Cheat Engine, but requires hex editing):
Just in case the game implements some form of anti-cheat when playing online (At least when playing offline, I was able to get Cheat Engine to load up without massive stalls), you can just patch the executable (GameDir\RED\Binaries\Win64\GGST-Win64-Shipping.exe) with a hex editor (Such as HxD). Keep in mind, that since the executable is seemingly protected by SteamStub (Which made debugging some things hard due to crashing when attempting to hook a debugger, and might even get in the way of hex editing), this is usually easy to remove if something like Denuvo isn't in place (but I won't give instructions on how to do that here). However, I'll tell ya what needs to be done:

To remove the pillarboxes, find and replace "39 8E E3 3F C7" with your desired aspect ratio (Which can be found here: https://www.wsgf.org/article/common-hex-values), making sure to leave the C7 byte intact. Also make sure to find and replace "39 8E E3 3F 48 8D" and make sure to keep the 48 and 8D bytes in-tact to make sure that pillarboxes aren't displayed in multiplayer mode.

To adjust the FOV, find "35 FA 0E 3C 00 00 74" and replace with "35 FA 3E 3C 00 00 74" for a 21:9 aspect ratio, making sure to leave the "00 00 74" bytes intact. I'm unsure about how the values for other aspect ratios would be, but compared to other Unreal Engine games, the FOV float value normally used to adjust the Vert- FOV to compensate is offset by about 0.000000000932 (So instead of "0.008726647124", it would be "0.008726646192").

[KingKrouch]

EVIL RAVEN a écrit :

KingKrouch a écrit :

To adjust the FOV, find "35 FA 0E 3C 8F C2" and replace with "34 FA 3E 3C 8F C2" for a 21:9 aspect ratio, making sure to leave the 8F C2 bytes intact.

who knows the value for 32:9 (5120x1440)?

"39 8E 63 40 C7" and "39 8E 63 40 48 8D". As for the FOV, someone mentioned the recommended FOV in the comments of this post.

[EVIL RAVEN]

KingKrouch a écrit :

EVIL RAVEN a écrit :

who knows the value for 32:9 (5120x1440)?

"39 8E 63 40 C7" and "39 8E 63 40 48 8D". As for the FOV, someone mentioned the recommended FOV in the comments of this post.

Thanks

[Fork_In_My_Eyee]

minh khang a écrit :

Fork_In_My_Eyee a écrit :

how do u do that

Use steamless

do u have a tutorial for that

[Fork_In_My_Eyee]

i patched the .exe with steamless and then when i go to launch the game it says: Steam must be running to play this game (SteamAPI_Init() failed). FATAL ERROR then it closes

[Mandra]

I have a 32:9 with 5120 x 1440 resolution... I risk the ban for this tools? Can I play online with this? And when new patches come out will all this still work? Thank you

[Captain Cutsupa]

Hi all I tried to remove the DRM but I get "Failed to unpack file". Did someone have a similar issue?

[KingKrouch]

Captain Cutsupa a écrit :

Hi all I tried to remove the DRM but I get "Failed to unpack file". Did someone have a similar issue?

You are likely unpacking the wrong executable.

[Captain Cutsupa]

KingKrouch a écrit :

Captain Cutsupa a écrit :

Hi all I tried to remove the DRM but I get "Failed to unpack file". Did someone have a similar issue?

You are likely unpacking the wrong executable.

I tried GameDir\RED\Binaries\Win64\GGST-Win64-Shipping.exe
and GameDir\GGST.exe

am I missing something?

[orbies (7MD)]

Mandra a écrit :

I have a 32:9 with 5120 x 1440 resolution... I risk the ban for this tools? Can I play online with this? And when new patches come out will all this still work? Thank you

I've been playing online just fine. It doesn't give any advantage either way, it just removes the black bars.

[Captain Cutsupa]

Captain Cutsupa a écrit :

KingKrouch a écrit :

You are likely unpacking the wrong executable.

I tried GameDir\RED\Binaries\Win64\GGST-Win64-Shipping.exe
and GameDir\GGST.exe

am I missing something?

Found the problem. The exe file must be copied in the same folder where I created the exe file. If not, it won't work.
Now the game is very slow communicating with the servers, not sure if this is normal.

[Mandra]

yayorbitgum a écrit :

Mandra a écrit :

I have a 32:9 with 5120 x 1440 resolution... I risk the ban for this tools? Can I play online with this? And when new patches come out will all this still work? Thank you

I've been playing online just fine. It doesn't give any advantage either way, it just removes the black bars.

Thank you for the answer!

[Ser]

Captain Cutsupa a écrit :

Captain Cutsupa a écrit :

I tried GameDir\RED\Binaries\Win64\GGST-Win64-Shipping.exe
and GameDir\GGST.exe

am I missing something?

Found the problem. The exe file must be copied in the same folder where I created the exe file. If not, it won't work.
Now the game is very slow communicating with the servers, not sure if this is normal.

normal at start up

[orbies (7MD)]

Mandra a écrit :

Thank you for the answer!

No problem! I think the only reason the black bars are there is because the work hasn't been done yet. When you do enable this, you can see a lot of the UI and menus don't account for ultrawide aspect ratios so some things look misaligned and out of place, as well as seeing some menu transitions suddenly cut off at the edges (like the fake cutscene black bars at the top and bottom of the screen when you see the eagle fly around).

[Borracha]

someone can upload the .exe modified? I can't find the hex

[Redven]

Giving a heads up that the fix still works after the recent patch