Can't use 1920x1080 resolution on 2560x1440 monitor.

[VaNilla]

Using a Nvidia GTX 770 with latest drivers, can someone help? Tried forcing through setings.ini, driver settings, launch options... nothing works. For some reason, the game forces you to go to a tenth of your native resolution (70%, 80% etc) and as such, I can't play the game at 1080p.

This is really frustrating, no other game has this problem.

[robomagon]

The only way I've found to do it is to actually change your windows desktop resolution to 1920x1080. The ingame option just changes the internal rendering res. It will always be scaled to your desktop res.

[VaNilla]

Tried this through the Nvidia Driver, didn't work for me. Just tried Windows settings, same thing. Still says "100% 2560x1440" in the menu.

[robomagon]

Originally posted by VaNilla:

Tried this through the Nvidia Driver, didn't work for me.

Just right click on the desktop and click "screen resolution".

[VaNilla]

Originally posted by robomagon:

Originally posted by VaNilla:

Tried this through the Nvidia Driver, didn't work for me.

Just right click on the desktop and click "screen resolution".

Done that, made no difference. Still reads the Native Resolution from my monitor. At least, it shows that in the menu.

[RedJackFlash1]

Originally posted by VaNilla:

Using a Nvidia GTX 770 with latest drivers, can someone help? Tried forcing through setings.ini, driver settings, launch options... nothing works. For some reason, the game forces you to go to a tenth of your native resolution (70%, 80% etc) and as such, I can't play the game at 1080p.

This is really frustrating, no other game has this problem.

Yeah and 100% is above 1920x1080 for me... My destop is 1920x1080, I don't understand.

[VaNilla]

Hmm... made a discovery. I first loaded the game at a resolution of 2560x1440. I could do nothing within the game to set it to 75% of my native resolution (1920x1080). However, when forcing my desktop resolution to 1920x1080, it seems to render at 1920x1080, but the menu still displays "100% (2560x1440)".

http://imgur.com/zoD5JtT

Perhaps, the menu can't adapt to a new native resolution after writing a previous native resolution to the settings.cfg file. This is highly misleading to the user.

UPDATE: Another thing. Even though the game seems to render at 1920x1080, the settings.cfg file still saves the resolution of 2560x1440.

http://imgur.com/UTj8HuS

This is a pretty serious issue. The game should allow you to resolutions that aren't explicitally tied to your native resolution by divisions of tenths.

[RedJackFlash1]

Do you think we could change the file and write "1920x1080" ?

The thing is, I got a GTX 660 and since the last driver update (344.11), Geforce Experience tells me my optimal resoltution is 2048x1536 even though my screen can't go past 1920x1080... Maybe that's the problem you have too.

[VaNilla]

Originally posted by RedJackFlash1:

Do you think we could change the file and write "1920x1080" ?

Tried this, doesn't make any difference. The game just rounds the value to the closest divisible tenth of your native resolution (in the menu at least). For instance, when I type "1080" into the ScreenHeight field, and "1920" into the ScreenWidth field, the game sets my resolution in the menu to 70% of 2560x1440 (1792x1008).

http://imgur.com/sY798H9

However, when I check the actual resolution with Fraps, my game is still running at 2560x1440. So, the config setting makes no difference to the rendering resolution of the game, but it changes the value which the menu displays.

[RedJackFlash1]

Look at the last part of my previous message, it may, or may not, be that.

[Sludge]

did you try the in game "screeen adjustment" settings in the options?

That should work but I dont know if you tried that already. Good luck!

[VaNilla]

Originally posted by RedJackFlash1:

Look at the last part of my previous message, it may, or may not, be that.

Can't be this, GeForce Experience has no control over my settings (disabled that feature).

[RedJackFlash1]

Originally posted by Glob:

did you try the in game "screeen adjustment" settings in the options?

That should work but I dont know if you tried that already. Good luck!

The setting where you can move the screen to what suits you best ? It didn't change anything.

[VaNilla]

Originally posted by 고수:

Doesn't downscaling on monitors look like crap? If you want 1080p you should've gone with a 1080p monitor.

Nope, modern monitors and GPU's upscale lower resolutions just fine. 1920x1080 is only 75% of 2560x1440. Besides, some games work just fine at native resolution, but it's often better to trade off 1440p to 1080p resolution for higher frame rates at higher graphical settings.

[RedJackFlash1]

Originally posted by 고수:

Doesn't downscaling on monitors look like crap? If you want 1080p you should've gone with a 1080p monitor.

And I have a 1080p monitor but the game won't let me use that particular resolution... So it's not that.

[VaNilla]

Further testing shows that changing desktop resolution doesn't actually change the internal rendering resolution whatsoever. When you change desktop resolution, you change the resolution the game is displayed at. However, when I benchmarked the game at both 2560x1440 and 1920x1080 desktop resolutions at max settings (with textures set to high), I got the same benchmarking results in game.

http://imgur.com/OwIN4Et

This proves that regardless of desktop display resolution, the game actually renders internally at the resolution setting from the menu. Overall, this proves that right now, you cannot force the game to render at resolutions that don't fall into tenths of your native resolution (after launching the game with your actual native resolution). However, making changes within the settings.cfg file changes the resolution that the settings menu displays (not the resolution that the game actually renders).

Finally, I tried deleting the "Shadow of Mordor" folder from the WB Games root in "My Documents". Then, I set my desktop resolution to 1920x1080. The game set my resolution to 70% of 2560x1440. This leads me to believe that the game may be making additional saves in to Windows' registry files. Otherwise, the game would ask you to reset your gamma/keybinds upon deleting the folder in My Documents.