Ultrawide support

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RollersRyghts#8263 написал:

Has there ever been a public poll on this subject?

Considering the amount of disinformation you see in reddit and in this forum about the topic, a public poll would be a disaster. The would be chances to go back to 4:3 instead of going forward to 32:9.

Depite the recent growth, 32:9 is far from mainstream. The dominant aspect ratio in 2025 is not even 21:9, it's 16:9.

Super ultrawide is niche. That's no way around it. It is as niche as HDR, raytracing and AI frame generation. Does that mean that games should never support any of those because they are not used by the vast majority of the gaming population? That's the question.

Steam Hardware & Software Survey February 2025

5120 x 1440 used by 9.48%
7680 x 2160 used by 2.52%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 used by 0.71%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 used by 0.71%

4080 and 4090 seem pretty niche while pretty common imho...

maybe this is a good sign:

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Community_Team написал:

Please note that in order to provide an even playing field for all participants and a much more enjoyable viewing experience, we'll be restricting the aspect ratio to 16:9 for these race events. Any players found to be circumventing this change by modifying their game files will be disqualified from the event and their account will be banned for breaching our Terms of Use.

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Community_Team написал:

Please note that in order to provide an even playing field for all participants and a much more enjoyable viewing experience, we'll be restricting the aspect ratio to 16:9 for these race events. Any players found to be circumventing this change by modifying their game files will be disqualified from the event and their account will be banned for breaching our Terms of Use.

This is an excellent solution. 16:9 for competitions while allowing the 9.48% Of 32:9 users to continue playing POE2 in its most glorious and immersive state would be nirvana. A perfect win/win situation. Now hopefully GGGmgoes this route. Fingers crossed!

GGG often listen to their community, but the actions on 32:9 is sad.

No support for 32:9 will probably make me play something else in the future. Black bars are awful.

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kattfläsk#2846 написал:

GGG often listen to their community, but the actions on 32:9 is sad.

No support for 32:9 will probably make me play something else in the future. Black bars are awful.

So you know, Last Epoch has full support for 32:9 ;-)

D4 (bad) has support up to 27:9, which is way better than 21:9. There are black bars but they are not as depressing as in PoE.

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kattfläsk#2846 написал:

GGG often listen to their community, <snip>

This has not been the experience since Dec 6th, imo.

The problem with black bars is that it damages the pixel panel of the screen in the long term. Then you open an internet window and you can see the two lines on each side that are printed and which, unfortunately, scrap your screen. The advantage excuse is simply a waste of time and you know it... Are we going to start putting a time limit on playing so as not to disadvantage those who work vs. streamers. under the pretext that they have a time advantage vs. others? I would rather hear them tell us that they are too cowardly to make the correction. The patch for the ultrawide that I was using was perfect! I understand perfectly that it is not MY game. I was lucky enough to play 4 months with the mod and I would never go back to the game without 32:9. Even if I "couldn't because of the rules". I'm just making my point for who knows if the dev ever comes across the forum and sees that there is a part of the community, even a small one, that wants this change. I have the right to dream, right?!?

So can we have open inventory and character screen then instead of black bars?

Get a normal monitor then. You don't get to cheat and see more of the map just because of daddy's credit card.

I want a full refund then. Just make it where bars only appear if your doing competative stuff. This is dumb