W3 Next Gen - Ultrawide support and high framerates

[Quasinerdo]

Hi,
I'm curious if the game will support Ultrawide and/or High framerates?

Reinstalling the standard version I realise it's limited to 16x9 and 60FPS.

Are there current workarounds for this?

[Homer Morisson]

The game already beautifully runs in Ultrawide, 3440x1440, and also isn't limited to 60 FPS at all.

No idea where you got your info, but it's plain false... my own install runs perfectly fine at 3440x1440 @ 100 Hz @ 97 FPS (G-SYNC).

You do of course need to hex the .exe for Ultrawide, but then, as I said, it runs perfectly fine with zero glitches even.

EDIT:
And here's proof, at least of the Ultrawide bit, heh:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2864293265

[Robbiee]

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

The game already beautifully runs in Ultrawide, 3440x1440, and also isn't limited to 60 FPS at all.

No idea where you got your info, but it's plain false... my own install runs perfectly fine at 3440x1440 @ 100 Hz @ 97 FPS (G-SYNC).

You do of course need to hex the .exe for Ultrawide, but then, as I said, it runs perfectly fine with zero glitches even.

EDIT:
And here's proof, at least of the Ultrawide bit, heh:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2864293265

ive played this before but never on ultrawide, got an ultrawide now though and what you're saying it doesn't have native ultrawide support... seriously.....???

[Homer Morisson]

Barely any game, even in 2022, has native UW support, and this game is from 2015.

[Kaiserkane]

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

Barely any game, even in 2022, has native UW support, and this game is from 2015.

Well that's false.

[Homer Morisson]

Originally posted by Kaiserkane:

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

Barely any game, even in 2022, has native UW support, and this game is from 2015.

Well that's false.

No it isn't.
I've had an Ultrawide monitor since 2018, and most of the games I've played since then either needed Hexing or Flawless Widescreen.

[Kaiserkane]

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

Originally posted by Kaiserkane:

Well that's false.

No it isn't.
I've had an Ultrawide monitor since 2018, and most of the games I've played since then either needed Hexing or Flawless Widescreen.

Eh I really don't care enough to argue it, but it's obviously dependant on what games you play. Most of my library supports it.

[sca7man]

Originally posted by Kaiserkane:

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

No it isn't.
I've had an Ultrawide monitor since 2018, and most of the games I've played since then either needed Hexing or Flawless Widescreen.

Eh I really don't care enough to argue it, but it's obviously dependant on what games you play. Most of my library supports it.

Mine too brother

[Secreth]

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

Originally posted by Kaiserkane:

Well that's false.

No it isn't.
I've had an Ultrawide monitor since 2018, and most of the games I've played since then either needed Hexing or Flawless Widescreen.

Well this says more about you than the games.

[F4lc0n]

If you need Hex Edit it doesn't support 21:9 out of the box and every updae breaks it. I hope that the new update finally supports 21:9 natively.

[Secreth]

Originally posted by F4lc0n:

If you need Hex Edit it doesn't support 21:9 out of the box and every updae breaks it. I hope that the new update finally supports 21:9 natively.

TW3 have always supported 21:9 natively.

[Boothy]

I've played TW3 in Ultrawide since it came out, with no real issues, and no hex editing etc.

Only minor issues are some menus, such as the main menu, are still in regular wide screen, so black borders at the side (although mouse still moves over those areas, so game is still outputting at Ultrawide). And cut scenes have a bigger border. Neither of which are game breaking or bothered me enough to do anything about it.

But the actual game screen, where you'll be 99%+ of the time, works just fine in Ultrawide.

[Boothy]

Also just to add to this. I've just launched the game as a quick test, as my previous monitor was only 60Hz Ultrawide (got many years ago), but my current monitor I got a few months back is now a 144Hz Ultrawide (3440 x 1440).

TW3s frame rater limit was set to 60 FPS (to match my old monitor), but moving this all the way to the left sets this as unlimited and in game riding around was hitting around 125 FPS.

[Dravic]

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

The game already beautifully runs in Ultrawide, 3440x1440, and also isn't limited to 60 FPS at all.

No idea where you got your info, but it's plain false... my own install runs perfectly fine at 3440x1440 @ 100 Hz @ 97 FPS (G-SYNC).

You do of course need to hex the .exe for Ultrawide, but then, as I said, it runs perfectly fine with zero glitches even.

EDIT:
And here's proof, at least of the Ultrawide bit, heh:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2864293265

Legacy vanilla W3 version has black bars for most of the time you're playing it; all dialogues, all cutscenes are black bars.

[Dravic]

Originally posted by Secreth:

Originally posted by F4lc0n:

If you need Hex Edit it doesn't support 21:9 out of the box and every updae breaks it. I hope that the new update finally supports 21:9 natively.

TW3 have always supported 21:9 natively.

Nope. Not in cutscenes and dialogues which is like half the game.

[F4lc0n]

Originally posted by Secreth:

TW3 have always supported 21:9 natively.

That is weird - which Version? I always had to mess with it (Steam Version) and needed 3rd Party Tools or Hex Edits in order to get it to work. And I am not talking about Cutscenes, but the general game. And every patch broke it. So I never finished it.

Maybe the GOG Version is different (most fixes worked only for one or the other since the .exe is different due to Steam DRM I guess).

In any case, I hope there will be an improvement tomorrow - maybe Cutscenes and Dialogue in 21:9 as well