steff wrote:
Hi all,
I have my own fair share of the hud and menus issue, but I see a lot of people who have struggled with it to no avail. I've done all I could to get this fixed, so this is my last shot at making it work.
I have recently purchased a Philips 298X4 monitor, 21:9 aspect ratio, 2560x1080 native resolution, with an ATI HD 6970 card. I have the Skyrim Legendary edition, but I also own the standard edition too, so I could try a fresh install to a previous version, but I'd lose the latest patches.
I have tried both Flawless Widescreen and the Widescreen Fix, with and without skyrimpref.ini editing. FW didn't work at all for me, except for ruining all my mods setup. Widescreen does seem to work well for the ingame resolution, but menus and HUD are all messed up. It seems they think my resolution is twice the size it is, as the compass and the dialog options that usually are are the top-middle and top center of the screens are now placed on my far left edge and only displayed in half. I can't access inventory, game menus, can't even exit the game without manually crashing it.
Now, if I go to skyrimprefs.ini and change the values, it tells me my display doesn't support 2560x1080 and asks me to change it, when previously I was able to edit the ini and run the game... weird. Anyway, Widescreen fixer does apply the resolution to the game, but not to menus and UI.
Any advice at this point would be incredibly appreciated, as I've exhausted all forums, discussion boards and faqs I could find...
thx
HMM this sounds like a driver issue... I have no idea what to say except try an older driver version and see if it works?
I am on Nvidia and don't have an AMD card to give more info on what drivers I would recommend... but for me on nVidia I am still stuck on the 331.40 betas (or 327.23) since these are the only ones that either don't crash the driver kernel, support triple buffering and 3D vision properly.. From what I gather both AMD and nVidia are PURE crap atm with their drivers...so I would try an older driver version...
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