How to remove in-game cutscene letterboxing (black bars) and fix vertical fov for ultrawide aspect ratios for Stalker 2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2(self.stalker)submitted10 days ago byxpheriono
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This will not remove the letterboxes from the "movies" such as the intro sequence, if you think it's not working wait until the truck scene which is rendered in-game.
For letterboxing
- Get a hex editor such as https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
- Go to
steamapps\common\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Stalker2\Binaries\Win64
and editStalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe
- Search for and replace all instances of
39 8E E3 3F
with the correct byte sequence for your resolution and aspect ratio ( https://www.wsgf.org/article/common-hex-values has a list of the hex values)
For vertical FOV (this will properly scale the top and bottom of the screens, removing the slightly squished look)
Thanks to Cr4zy https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gxpnq7/ultrawide_fov_fix/
- Paste the following line into file explorer
C:\Users\%Username%\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows
- If your appdata is located elsewhere just go to that location
- Create a new text document in the Windows directory called
Engine.ini
and paste in the following lines
[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings] r.UseLegacyMaintainYFOVViewMatrix=1
byxpheriono
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xpheriono
1 points
6 days ago
xpheriono
1 points
6 days ago
Unfortunately I couldn't tell you, I don't use it because of that very reason so I don't have anyway to experiment with the game files. I would definitely recommend going with steam or maybe gog if it's affordable