Azeemotron wrote:
Can anyone else comment on their performance hit of the Ultrawide Fix? Original 2560 x 1440 is between 100 - 120 fps for me. With the Ultrawide it goes to 60 - 75 fps, I know 3440 is more taxing, but this is considerably more then usual. I have an RTX 2080 (1080ti) & 8700k @5Ghz if that's comparable to anyone else.
There is also some interesting things I've noted through going through all of this all day.
With the fix alone, playing on Full Screen (First switching to Borderless then back to Full Screen) causes cinematic, loading screens & Menu's to all be centered and take up the entire screen in Ultrawide (and it look's great!).
However in game, the image quality is largely distorted. Changing display in game to Borderless clears up the quality, but then (naturally) G-Sync doesn't work and frames are even lower then Full Screen. Not to mention, cinematic & loading screens are on the far left in 16:9, leaving a large black space on the right. Also, dialogue boxes are not centered but to the left.
I then tried playing this Ultrawide alongside Special K. All cinematic and loading screens are to the left with the large black space to the right, dialogues are left centered (Like Borderless from before). However, Full Screen no longer has worse image quality which enables a better frame rate & G-Sync to function. However, using Full Screen with Special K no longer gives the other benefits though either, such as 21:9 Cinematic (the Movies, not in game rendered) and loading screens.
Of course, as others have noted, everything in Ultrawide is effected by the thicker character boarders and what seems to be bad AA & just generally doesn't look the same as non-Ultrawide.
Using the 3440 fix + Special K is the closest to a playable experience I've got, but there are still many compromises.
It's all very odd. Square Enix could of saved everyone a lot of problems with what could be beautiful looking (& running) game.
Edit: I forgot to mention, that there is very noticeable ghosting.
Yeah I've sort of gotten used to the ghosting and cinematics on one side of the screen. Good breakdown of the issues.
New patch out today as well. If only the patches would add 3440x1440 native support ;_;
EDIT: Last patch's fix is fully working. Noice lol