Hey guys,
I don't know if anybody will need this, since the game is a bit old by now, but anyway I want to share it.
I recently received my copy of Dead Island via a nice humblebundle offer and wanted to play this on my 21:9 screen in 2560x1080. Unfortunately Gardens fix didn't work for me, even with the newer files from data3.pak. So I tried to fix it myself!
I used Gardens files and edited them. I resized the ingame menu, so that you can access all buttons:
unfixed:
fixed:
I realized that the HUD is scaled up if you compare 1920x1080 with 2560x1080:
Normal size HUD in 1920x1080:
Scaled up HUD in 2560x1080:
So I edited the HUD.xui file to rescale and reposition most of the HUD elements:
To install the fix extract the data folder of
this archive to:
C:\Users\<username>\Documents\DeadIsland\out
If you want to keep the bigger HUD like shown above, simply delete the hud folder (or don't extract it in the first place)
There are some minor bugs:
- radar content is a bit bigger than the radar backgroundimage (see "!" on the radar in the last 2 images)
- weapon images in the wheelselectionmenu are distorted and to big
- main menu and loading screen show a black bar at the side and are not centered
- level up screen is a bit off to the left (not in the center) <= i actually liked that because u can still see the zombies in your crosshair!
- ..
I did this fix in a few hours and I only care about the ingame experience and not about loading screens (u don't see them too long with nowadays ssds anyway
) So I did not fix everything.
But feel free to report gameplay relevant bugs that I didnt stumble upon yet. (I didnt even finish the first chapter yet!)
greetz,
infest
edit: wsgf gallery is working again... changed the links and also added this fix to the dead island entry