Widescreen bug

[mooesmoo]

Hi. I just played the game for some mins and i gotta say it looks great but i dont know why everything looks like if it goot a zoom or something. The intros dont play well and you can see the text cut.

Regards.

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/8739/metro203320100316010634.jpg

[Kilolas]

How are you playing a Steamworks game early exactly?

[mooesmoo]

Its released on Spain. Added the image of the bug.

[worscht]

Kilolas

http://store.steampowered.com/news/3595/

[RMJ]

Dont claim, just be happy you can play :( lucky lucky lucky person.

[mooesmoo]

Trust me playing with the zoom on the screen makes you dizzy.

[Kilolas]

I wish I could play right now, still got 3 hours to wait :(. Hope you find a fix.

[joemaniaci]

Have it as well, 2 4870's in crossfire on 1920x___ res.

[vashts1985]

same here on a 1650x1080.

i donno if it is a FOV issue or its just not widescreening correctly, but its hurting my eyes.

[joemaniaci]

well I found a config file and it seems that it is defaulting to 1650x1080 for me, which my tv doesnt support.

[PhillB]

Yeah no widescreen. Just stretched 5:4 which hurts to look at. Hope they fix this asap.

[Pinworm45]

Yeah no widescreen. Just stretched 5:4 which hurts to look at. Hope they fix this asap.

the problem here is that it's going too widescreen.

[Driadon]

I only see this issue on loading screens like that with my native res of 1440x900. In-game seems fine to me.

[mooesmoo]

i told 4agames about the bug already,just when the game launched and they simply ignored me, so dont know when they are gonna fix this, but yes is ♥♥♥♥ing annoying to play like this.

[jakal114]

yup same thing here.
that text is off the screen just like TC.
and my screen seems stretched. only slightly but it still bothers me.

[Pinworm45]

Are those of you who have stretched images on non-wide screen monitors?

[mooesmoo]

We have this issue with widescreen monitors,thats the problem.

[mooesmoo]

Has someone found a solution?

[PhillB]

Does this affect you in game as well? The problem for me is that I couldn't get widescreen at all not that it was too wide. Either way I'm guessing there's a bug for some people. I'm not at my PC now so I can't check but you could try messing with one of the cfg files to see if you can adjust settings from there.

[mooesmoo]

Everything looks with zoom, and yes tried the cfg files.

[PhillB]

Just for the sake of comparison (to see if the issue is the same as mine) could you post some screens?

One at 1024x768 (or other like aspect) and another at your screens native (I'm assuming 16:10 or 9). Make sure something like a character is in shot and don't move (obviously). Thanks.

[iSpaceman]

Maybe they just didn't port it with widescreen capability?
Or maybe your computers graphics card panel doesnt have widescreen enabled?
Dunno if that even exists, but im just trying to help :)

[PhillB]

By the way, here's the bug I'm talking about (possibly only affects certain resolutions or setups as some say theres are correct):

1024x768: http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/9646/metro203320100315232921.jpg - notice proportions are correct

1440x900: http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2258/metro203320100315232858.jpg - everything is the exact same as the 1024 one just stretched.

And the loading menus get messed up as well:

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/2188/metro203320100316085506.jpg

[zetacannon]

The problem seems to be that the field of view is WAY to small. And by too small, I mean, this seems like it's even smaller than the average console game small. Unfortunately, the only setting related to FOV in the user.cfg is sick_fov, which I doubt has anything to do with most of the game. And by the way, it defaults to 45. So SUPER ZOOM.

Chances are, we'll have to wait for someone to figure out how to change the FOV through external means, and until then, just pretend that the character has a crippling hunchback that requires him to be bent way forward all the time.

Edit: Scratch that, kinda. Post above mine shows that the entire screen stretches in widescreen. Ouch. It's still got a terribly low FOV, though.

[mooesmoo]

Those screens are the same ♥♥♥♥ that happens to me.

Know the sad part, 4A games is totally ignoring this.

[KingFriday]

Easy! there is 2 user.cfg

one is located in appdata>local>4agames>metro2033

the other is located in you steam folder under
userdata>*youraccountnumber*>43110>remote

you need to change setting in both of these cfg in order for you changes to stay. I use fov 60, although it does not fix the stretching. Somebody needs to figure out how to get the aspect ratio to change from 4:3 to 16:9 that is what will fix that problem.


Btw I am having trouble changing resolutions. Every time I try to change my resolution the screen goes black. I can hear sounds and other things but nothing is displayed! I have to delete said cfg and verify my cache in order to fix that. what is going on with this game?

[Mordeth13]

They shipped the game with no Widescreen support....WTF? Seriously.....even my living room TV is widescreen who uses 4:3?

[joemaniaci]

Btw I am having trouble changing resolutions. Every time I try to change my resolution the screen goes black. I can hear sounds and other things but nothing is displayed! I have to delete said cfg and verify my cache in order to fix that. what is going on with this game?

Probably causing problems since you changed the cfg files.

[mooesmoo]

Easy! there is 2 user.cfg

one is located in appdata>local>4agames>metro2033

the other is located in you steam folder under
userdata>*youraccountnumber*>43110>remote

you need to change setting in both of these cfg in order for you changes to stay. I use fov 60, although it does not fix the stretching. Somebody needs to figure out how to get the aspect ratio to change from 4:3 to 16:9 that is what will fix that problem.


Btw I am having trouble changing resolutions. Every time I try to change my resolution the screen goes black. I can hear sounds and other things but nothing is displayed! I have to delete said cfg and verify my cache in order to fix that. what is going on with this game?

YOU ARE MY ♥♥♥♥ING HERO. Game got much better now, no more problems with widescreen and i think fps are more, dont know how, but it works. Gonna make a post for everyone to get it.

Thx

[KingFriday]

YOU ARE MY ♥♥♥♥ING HERO. Game got much better now, no more problems with widescreen and i think fps are more, dont know how, but it works. Gonna make a post for everyone to get it.

Thx

Already did including some more advice!

[ManOhMan]

I'm not sure what the prob is for some of you. I'm playing at 1920x1080 on an ATI 4890 card.

http://home.comcast.net/~soxxy/Metro/Merto (6).jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~soxxy/Metro/Merto (7).jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~soxxy/Metro/Merto (8).jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~soxxy/Metro/Merto (0).jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~soxxy/Metro/Merto (1).jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~soxxy/Metro/Merto (2).jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~soxxy/Metro/Merto (3).jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~soxxy/Metro/Merto (4).jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~soxxy/Metro/Merto (5).jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~soxxy/Metro/Merto (9).jpg

[princej3]

playing at 1680x1050 and I have the same problem with the screen cut-off on the chapter screens :(

otherwise a pretty sweet game, and is running like a dream with DX11 and settings on "High"

[njal]

i have the same issue. stretched graphics @ 1440x900, very ugly. completely kills the atmosphere of this nice game. feels like back in days of stoneage widescreengaming, when you had to check for solutions for every single game to be properly displayed. hope there will be a fix soon. do they even know of this?

[eNyar]

I also use 1440x900 and have the same issue where I can't read the loading screen properly and the ingame looks stretched. This is very disappointing that they wouldn't even add proper support for widescreen. I feel like I wasted my money. Can I still return it to steam? I don't even want this game now. :<

[Waukeen]

Its more then likely a FOV issue. Try changing that in the cfg files and see how that works. Ihave mine at 65 for 16:10 and works fine

[PhillB]

Its more then likely a FOV issue. Try changing that in the cfg files and see how that works. Ihave mine at 65 for 16:10 and works fine

But when you switch from 5:4 to 16:10 are you still seeing the same amount of screen space?

[princej3]

The chapter screens dont seem to be fixed by adjusting FOV, I increased mine all the way to 90 and its always the same amount of text cut off

[njal]

and it doesn't correct the proportions.

[watchmedie]

widescreen is fine here, no distortion, no chapter screen problems and no text offscreen ect..

1680x01050 ati 4870

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/2537/metro203320100316120752.png

[PhillB]

widescreen is fine here, no distortion, no chapter screen problems and no text offscreen ect..

1680x01050 ati 4870

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/2537/metro203320100316120752.png

Kind of hard to tell from that screen (it does look okay though). But could you post a comparison pick? One at 5:4 and another at 16:10.

[vashts1985]

so is this turing out to be a Nvidia issue?

seems everyone that is running fine is on ATI. also whenever i start the game i get that out of date driver message.

what about you other guys with problems?

[the dunce]

I posted this in another thread

Ok here's some comparisons for FOV.

Both are 16:10 at 1680x1050

Default 45 FOV
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4311/metro203320100316130921.png

65 FOV
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/6526/metro203320100316130507.png

It also changes the FOV for the viewmodel, which I think actually looks a lot better.

Also, I'm on ATI, and I'm still getting chapter text cut off.

[ManOhMan]

Well I see pepple saying 1449x900 is a problom also.
Here are some pics and a video at that rez.



http://home.comcast.net/~soxy/Metro/1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~soxy/Metro/2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~soxy/Metro/3.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~soxy/Metro/4.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~soxy/Metro/5.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~soxy/Metro/Metro.avi 2gb movie encoded to 24mb


This game has zero problems with wide screen. I posted a few posts back 1080p WS shots.

People that are having problems might want to look into GPU scaling. If you are playing in WS below your LCD's native rezz your video card. Could even your monitor that's up scaling the image to fit the whole screen.

Here is a pic from a ATI control panel and shows the settings off. NVIDIA also has settings for GPU SCALING.
http://home.comcast.net/~soxy/Metro/ccc.jpg

Hope that helps out some of you. It's a shame you can't get it working right, cuzz this game relly kicks some, and problems like this really suck the fun out.

[dlymar]

also whenever i start the game i get that out of date driver message.

Some time ago I managed to download 196.75 driver from Nvidia, and it does not give the message. But this version has been removed from Nvidia page due to some fan speed issues. I tried current release driver (196.21) - and there was a message. Also tried latest beta driver (196.34) - no message. For now I would probably stick with beta 196.34.
BTW no issues on 1920x1200, 1680x1050 or 1440x900 using GTX 285 + Dell 2408WFP.

[AgentOtaku]

Well I see pepple saying 1449x900 is a problom also.
Here are some pics and a video at that rez.



http://home.comcast.net/~soxy/Metro/1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~soxy/Metro/2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~soxy/Metro/3.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~soxy/Metro/4.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~soxy/Metro/5.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~soxy/Metro/Metro.avi 2gb movie encoded to 24mb


This game has zero problems with wide screen. I posted a few posts back 1080p WS shots.

People that are having problems might want to look into GPU scaling. If you are playing in WS below your LCD's native rezz your video card. Could even your monitor that's up scaling the image to fit the whole screen.

Here is a pic from a ATI control panel and shows the settings off. NVIDIA also has settings for GPU SCALING.
http://home.comcast.net/~soxy/Metro/ccc.jpg

Hope that helps out some of you. It's a shame you can't get it working right, cuzz this game relly kicks some, and problems like this really suck the fun out.

this doesn't fix it

I have this same issue to btw. Using a ATI 5850

[ManOhMan]

That sucks. I just don't know what the prob could be. I can play in any WS rez in WinXP or Win764 with zero probs. And we both have ATI cards.

Hope you guys can find a fix soon.

[princej3]

Using a 5770 here, and I verified GPU scaling is disabled. Regardless, I'm playing at my LCD's native res of 1680x1050. Text still cut off on chapter screens

[deadlybydesign]

Same issue here - chapter screens are cut off and the game looks zoomed-in.

8800GT 512mb
3ghz e8400
Win7x64
195.75 Nvidia drivers

Otherwise, it runs pretty well on DX9 High Settings.

[asmallhorse]

A temporary fix- in your config file people have been discussing, set r_fullscreen to 'off'. Then, provided you have your resolution at the maximum native res, it will scale to fill all but a small strip at the bottom of the screen. Set your taskbar to autohide (right click it- properties- auto hide the taskbar) then set your desktop background to pure black. That should give a pretty much perfect image. Hope this helps people.

[ObvilionLost]

Have the same problem.

E8400
HD4870 512MB
4 GB RAM

[deadlybydesign]

I don't know that it helps to mention this or not, but...

The game throws up a 5:4 box for a split-second when it launches, as if it's loading that ratio. Problem is, it does it no matter what res you're running. That might be why it's giving us all 5:4 @ 1680x1050, whatever res, etc.

[PhillB]

A temporary fix- in your config file people have been discussing, set r_fullscreen to 'off'. Then, provided you have your resolution at the maximum native res, it will scale to fill all but a small strip at the bottom of the screen. Set your taskbar to autohide (right click it- properties- auto hide the taskbar) then set your desktop background to pure black. That should give a pretty much perfect image. Hope this helps people.

Nice find!

Unfortunately there's microstutters when I do this and the bottom of the screen is warped. Definitely sets the proper aspect though.

[princej3]

Heh, it does work in non-fullscreen; interesting

[asmallhorse]

Yeah, frustrating that it does this; hopefully a patch will resolve it shortly. I've found that using the classic xp appearance reduces the noise to a couple of grey strips at the bottom using windowed mode, but a proper fullscreen would obviously be preferred in a game with so much darkness. Lights off FTW etc. Also, has anyone noticed that mouse sensitivity seems stronger for horizontal movement? Bug or a feature... ? :D

Excellent game btw... Really impressed by it so far (reached the catacombs).

[joemaniaci]

Easy! there is 2 user.cfg

one is located in appdata>local>4agames>metro2033

the other is located in you steam folder under
userdata>*youraccountnumber*>43110>remote

you need to change setting in both of these cfg in order for you changes to stay. I use fov 60, although it does not fix the stretching. Somebody needs to figure out how to get the aspect ratio to change from 4:3 to 16:9 that is what will fix that problem.


Btw I am having trouble changing resolutions. Every time I try to change my resolution the screen goes black. I can hear sounds and other things but nothing is displayed! I have to delete said cfg and verify my cache in order to fix that. what is going on with this game?

Doesnt work for me sadly.

[vashts1985]

A temporary fix- in your config file people have been discussing, set r_fullscreen to 'off'. Then, provided you have your resolution at the maximum native res, it will scale to fill all but a small strip at the bottom of the screen. Set your taskbar to autohide (right click it- properties- auto hide the taskbar) then set your desktop background to pure black. That should give a pretty much perfect image. Hope this helps people.

still does not work for me. i changed it in both configs and set them to read only.

[asmallhorse]

still does not work for me. i changed it in both configs and set them to read only.

When you say it doesn't work for you, what do you mean? Does it remain fullscreen or does it go windowed but remain distorted? If it isn't going fullscreen, you've missed a config file somewhere. If it's windowed and still distorted... I've no idea. Sorry.

[joemaniaci]

Well I got mine to work, but instead of forcing FOV or full screen, I just changed the resolution on both cfg files to what my monitor actually supported and it worked.

[vashts1985]

When you say it doesn't work for you, what do you mean? Does it remain fullscreen or does it go windowed but remain distorted? If it isn't going fullscreen, you've missed a config file somewhere. If it's windowed and still distorted... I've no idea. Sorry.

it is still full screen im sure. i dont think any of my config edits are taking.

[Waukeen]

But when you switch from 5:4 to 16:10 are you still seeing the same amount of screen space?

I know I'm alittle late on this reply (Blame Bioware and DA:O Awakening for this :P ) but:

Uhhh no you should see more real estate. I do anyway.

[dlymar]

I think it is something to do with the monitor and available resolutions it reports to windows. Can anyone having the problem please post their monitor model and the maximum possible resolution in Windows settings?
If that is the case, installing monitor driver might resolve the issue.

[njal]

1440x900 is max-res here, with which i'm trying to run this game. manufacturer's driver is installed. so, no - that's not the problem, sadly.

[Arkon540]

A temporary fix- in your config file people have been discussing, set r_fullscreen to 'off'. Then, provided you have your resolution at the maximum native res, it will scale to fill all but a small strip at the bottom of the screen. Set your taskbar to autohide (right click it- properties- auto hide the taskbar) then set your desktop background to pure black. That should give a pretty much perfect image. Hope this helps people.

This is working for me, but I can see the blue border of the window at the bottom (winXP ugly default skin/interface). Hardly a problem, to get proper aspect ratio. hopefully a patch comes soon, but for now I will probably play the game like this, unless something comes up like bad performance in windowed mode.

Strange that the aspect ratio is right in windowed mode and not in fullscreen. As far as the game is concerned it should be the exact same in both modes...

EDIT: forgot, I should post rig specs and resolution etc etc to help find a common cause of this issue.

Radeon HD 4850 512mb
AMD Phenom 9850 2.5 ghz quad core processor
Best Buy noname monitor, 22 or 23 inches, 1680x1050 native res. game running at 1680x1050

The way people are talking I would accuse the cheap monitor of doing some bad scaling on its own... but I've never seen this problem before, in any game...

[freemangl]

yea, same problem here, the aspect ratio isn't right.

[surfrock22]

Same here, everything seems to be zoomed or not fitting on the screen.. but windowed mode works pretty damn well. How could windowed mode play fine and fullscreen mode not? :confused:

[asmallhorse]

This is working for me, but I can see the blue border of the window at the bottom (winXP ugly default skin/interface). Hardly a problem, to get proper aspect ratio. hopefully a patch comes soon, but for now I will probably play the game like this, unless something comes up like bad performance in windowed mode.

Use the windows classic theme temporarily. It'll give you slightly less offensive grey bars (r.click on desktop- properties- then I think it's under theme- windows classic).

[ObvilionLost]

I got it fixed, this is what I did in Windows 7. It might be not game related at all, could be that the drivers not properly detecting maximum resolution of your monitor.

Open ATI CCC, go to Desktop & Displays. There is a small monitor icon in the bottom left corner, right click on it and go to "Configure.

In Monitor Attributes deselect "Use EDID or driver defaults" and manually change the maximum refresh rate and maximum resolution to the actual monitors specifications. Apply & Click Ok

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/2755/aticcc.jpg

If resolution changes due to those settings you have to set the resolution again in the Windows screen resolution settings.

For me the Catalyst detected that maximum resolution is 1920x1080 while my monitors maximum resolution is 1440x900.

[princej3]

I have a panel so that option doesn't seem to be there. But it is reporting a maximum resolution of 1920x1080 (my native/max is actually 1680x1050) there so that may just be the same problem. Does that make it a Catalyst problem, that it's reporting a higher max resolution than these panels are capable of? I suppose the game could have a work-around since other games haven't had this problem. Hmm.

[Arkon540]

If you google "Metro 2033 widescreen" now you get a ton of hits that 'there is a widescreen fix on the way' from every no-name gaming news website. The metro devs tweeted they are looking into it and there is a fix on the way.

http://twitter.com/Metro2033/status/10623338239

edit: whoops I didn't see the other thread, I was only watching this one(had it bookmarked). ill leave it anyway incase someone else is doing the same.

[Arkon540]

patch just went live, fixed widescreen issue for me.

[Rumtruffle]

wow, that was quick. good job devs.

[ObvilionLost]

I have a panel so that option doesn't seem to be there. But it is reporting a maximum resolution of 1920x1080 (my native/max is actually 1680x1050) there so that may just be the same problem. Does that make it a Catalyst problem, that it's reporting a higher max resolution than these panels are capable of? I suppose the game could have a work-around since other games haven't had this problem. Hmm.

It's not Catalyst issue it's probably the way the game detects the resolution. Which is not fixed with the patch.

[Paul_cz]

I installed this game two weeks ago (bought retail), I have the latest version of course, and I have the wrong aspect ratio problem:

my native res is 1920*1200, when I set that + fullscreen, the picture is distorted + the loading screens are cut off.

If I set it to windowed, aspect ratio is correct.

If I set it to 1600*1200, loading screens are not cut off, but picture is of course distorted.

I have nVidia gtx280, latest drivers and monitor NEC 24WMGX3.

I am really angry about this problem :(

[DIENER]

No problems here
DX11
Evga GTX 470
Drivers 257.15 BETA
Res 1680*1050

[Scourge]

They shipped the game with no Widescreen support....WTF? Seriously.....even my living room TV is widescreen who uses 4:3?

The game has widescreen support. I run it at 1920x1080 with no stretching or fov issues. There's definitely something going on with you guys, but the game does support widescreen.

edit: I had no issues before the patch.

[Paul_cz]

It might work ok with 16:9 res, but on my PC with 16:10 it is screwed up and the wrong aspect ratio damages the atmosphere.

IT F****NG SUCKS

[eldo76]

same here, 16:10 and its all screwed since release !

I can´t believe they didn´t properly patch this issue.

if I play windowed mode is allright, but fullscreen is screwed.
this is the only game that does this, unbeliveable.

I left the game waiting for a fix because I am not gonna play this in ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ windowed mode, it ruins the immersion too much.

and by the way when will they finally patch this game ?

I should have stayed away from this, thank god I got it cheap but still...

and for the little I played I was totally underwhelmed by the monsters, they are just laughable, looks like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ monkeys when they charge at you..
not impressed

[dunnowhathuh]

Has anyone who has bought this game recently still having this issue? Cuz everything is still stretched out for me.

[eldo76]

Has anyone who has bought this game recently still having this issue? Cuz everything is still stretched out for me.

yes I still have this freaking issue, 16:10 aspect ratio is screwed, only in windowed mode is correct but this is so annoying I stopped playing long ago, it has been a gamebreak issue for me.
how many months is this game already out and there was not a single serious patch yet !

this is the only fu----g game that behaves like this, I already tried all sort of workarounds, initweaks, displaydriver tweaks, nothing works.

I am truly pis---ed off and I am sure I am not the only one that still has this issue.

its about time they patch this thing, jesus !

:mad:

[idiosis]

Just brought this in the sale, running at 1366x768 just seems to be a squashed version of a 4:3 resolution. Wasn't there an update that fixed the widescreen issues?

Fiddled with the FOV in .cfg files which made it slightly better but it still looks squashed vertically.

[xellestar]

lol, funny how no one mentions that widescreen gets stretched when in fullscreen mode when talking about how much of a pc visual powerhouse this game is. totally unplayable.