SAO Totally Unplayable on 21:9 Widescreen

[Lagi Schwer]

setting it to 2560x1080 on Fullscreen makes the game unplayable where you cant click on anything and has to be played on Windowed 1920x1080

Pls Fix This Bandai!!!

[Nymourious]

at least you can play it :( im just getting Fatal Error

[Gate]

yeah same problem here 3440x1440 here trying to play at 1920x1080 just looks so bad on my montior its not worth plz fix

[OrochiTabris]

I'm confused about why this is even a problem. This game uses Unreal Engine 4, and I'm skeptical that it doesn't have built-in support for 21:9 and the various display modes. It's like they found a way to make the engine less functional than it probably already was. As nich as 21:9 is, it's not so rare that its existence should be ignored.

If I set it to windowed mode, which I'm not crazy about because it has a border and is covered by my task bar, pressing A at the start menu forces the game into borderless mode. In borderless mode it seems fine at first, but the menu is scaled up, options menus extend past the bottom, and the advance doptions menu disables most mouse and keyboard inputs (requiring the game to be forced off).

I've been trying to use Borderless Gaming with it, which has fixed problems in other stubborn games, but it just causes more weird behavior. Was trying to hide the taskbar while in windowed mode with it, and I had to restart my PC to get it back.

I've clocked over half an hour, 1/4 of my refund window, just trying to get this game to run like every other game, even some that are pretty old.

This is the first SAO game I've tried, and I've spent more time in a text editor messing with the config file than I have actually playing. I was on the fence about getting it for PC or PS4, and PC seemed like a better deal overall (10 bucks cheaper, free game), but at least on the PS4 it would just work.

[Kishinfoulux]

Yeah I'm not touching this game unless they patch some kind of ultrawide support.

[Lagi Schwer]

1920x1080 on fullscreen is playable but playing on a smaller resolution than normal just makes the game tightly pack and not much POV imo.
and it being too low system requirement makes everything run way faster than usual. Im on max settings at 60FPS and it seems too fast and smooth that it feels weird haha.

[OrochiTabris]

I can't even get 1920x1080 to work. I can't access the advanced options menu because gamepad and keyboard inputs stop working, so I can only work with the config file. Whatever I set in the config file is undone when I press A at the start menu. If I check the config file, after forcing the game to shutdown (the only way I can exit), the "DesiredScreenWidth" is 2560.

It's like the game is running in a 2560x1080 window, but displaying its content in a 1920x1080 window within that, and then something is breaking that's disabling inputs.

I deleted everything in the config folder, which causes them to be replaced when the game launches, and the same thing happens.

[Shino "Sinon" Asada]

i really wonder, i can't even think thet everygame suppurt 21:9..... sry for being blunt, but i don't imagine that the majority of people has such screens and that every game but this supports that

doesnt even windowed mode works? your screen resolution shouldn't matter for that o.o

[OrochiTabris]

It doesn't matter that the majority doesn't use it, they aren't so rare that games can't support it. 21:9 has been out for a while, and even older games run without issues. This isn't a matter of the game not being optimized for 21:9, this is a matter of the game breaking when on a 21:9 monitor.

Windowed mode doesn't work. It did, once. Then I tried changing settings, and the game has been broken since. If I edit the config file so it launches in windowed mode, the game forces a switch to borderless windowed mode, which scales the game weird, breaks menus, and disables gamepad and keyboard inputs.

Despite having a 21:9 monitor, I haven't had to deal with anything like this in any other game. Even games that don't have proper 21:9 support will run fine in a window, or borderless, or can even be run in a maximized window without issue.

[Lagi Schwer]

Im playing fine on my LG Widescreen, whatever resolution the game is running which is 1920x1080 for me I just set it to Full Screen and play it as is for now

[Lagi Schwer]

@Shino Asada

Even if a game doesnt support it playing Minimized should still make it work as lower res is lower than the default rez

[cyrician]

Game Does not support 21:9 set your desktop to 1920x1080 to play
So this game hates widescreen to play it I have to set desktop resolution out of game to 1920x1080 and then I can play no problem.

If you don't you can't go and change any settings as you can't select anything.

Developers please fix .

[Lagi Schwer]

You dont have to change your desktop resolution, just have to use the default settings and set it to fullscreen to play

[OrochiTabris]

Originally posted by Northern Watch, Night Hunter:

You dont have to change your desktop resolution, just have to use the default settings and set it to fullscreen to play

This is actually not a viable workaround, because on a 21:9 monitor the game is stretched horizontally to fill the display, the distortion is very noticeable. So in order to get fullscreen without stretching, changing the desktop to a lower resolution actually is necessary.

The only option that doesn't seem to break in some way is windowed mode, which is partially covered by the taskbar. Either the taskbar must be hidden while playing, or the game must be run in an even smaller window.

[Lagi Schwer]

weird, im not having much of a stretch on mine, its alright and all but yeah it is noticeable when playing it on a lower rez than usual

[cyrician]

Game Does not support 21:9 set your desktop to 1920x1080 to play
So this game hates widescreen to play it I have to set desktop resolution out of game to 1920x1080 and then I can play no problem.

If you don't you can't go and change any settings as you can't select anything.

Developers please fix .

This day and age I am surprised that 2560 x1080 isnt supported.