Issue with multiple monitors

I am running 2 monitors in the extended display setting. The game only wants to lanuch on my second montior, I cannot get it to launch on my main montior unless I switch to the "show only on" setting. I dont have this issue with any other games. Any suggestions?

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paratua

Description
Anyone using super or ultrawide screen (anything over 16:9 aspect ratio) is having a super bad experience, to the point I find it unplayable and nauseating. This is simply from the field of view.

Bug Reproduction Steps
Play in any resolution with a wider aspect ration than 16:9.

Expected Result
FoV should bind to the vertical not the horizontal, so that a wider screen shows more to the sides and doesn't cut the tops and bottom away.

Bug Report - Actual Result
Instead of adding view to the sides to support the larger FoV as one would expect, UE5 by default will CROP the top and bottom of the camera viewport which makes it feel very claustrophobic.

Solution and Fix
As an UE5 guy myself I've run into this issue multiple times, and the fix takes 5 minutes with no other changes in the project. There's two ways you can do it.

First and easiest would be by INI:

[/Script/Engine.LocalPlayer]
AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV

Or by C++:

GetLocalPlayer()->AspectRatioAxisConstraint = EAspectRatioAxisConstraint::AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV;

This will immediately make the game feel 1000x better for those with wider monitors.

Malapapas

Unfortunately, I cannot continue playing the Alpha 2 as I fear its harming my desktop. For some odd reason after launching AoC (sometimes its within minutes- longest was about 30m in) it somehow disconnects both my monitors. Its like I removed my HDMI cable but I did not.. The computer is still running I can hear the game sounds playing and ppl in discord but I cannot get my monitors back connected. My only option at that point is to power down computer manually

I hear this is happening to a few others as well so wanted to make sure it gets reported. Hopefully Intrepid fixes this sooner than later...

MinionX1

I haven't tried yet but will this fix it so my character is more centered on screen instead of toward the bottom? And the cross hair is pretty off too.

tannis

Moving the game application window off of my laptop and onto my second higher resolution monitor
then going to game settings and video
New higher resolution modes not displayed in drop down menu
Selecting full screen on new monitor results in mouse not be able to click / interact with initial char server selector buttons / options such as play or menu have to use game launcher to close window or control alt delete.

paratua

This is something the developers need to add in their UE5 project. You unfortunately can't do it yourself.

MinionX1

I found that out ya. I was playing today and I see what you mean about the feel on ultrawide.

My character feels offset downward and the fov felt kind of off-putting. Similar to other games I play but they have an fov option that helps a lot, as well as the maintain axis option.

I submitted a bug report in-game to bring attention to ultrawide support.

TonyOnTap

visual example

5120X1440

1980x1080

MinionX1

I'm 5120x1440 as well and my character is even lower than yours is. My legs are practically where my action bar is and the crosshair thing is too high.

TonyOnTap

MinionX1 wrote: »

I'm 5120x1440 as well and my character is even lower than yours is. My legs are practically where my action bar is and the crosshair thing is too high.

Both these examples are at max zoom out distance

MinionX1

TonyOnTap wrote: »

MinionX1 wrote: »

I'm 5120x1440 as well and my character is even lower than yours is. My legs are practically where my action bar is and the crosshair thing is too high.

Both these examples are at max zoom out distance

And what I said is at max zoom as well.

TonyOnTap

MinionX1 wrote: »

TonyOnTap wrote: »

MinionX1 wrote: »

I'm 5120x1440 as well and my character is even lower than yours is. My legs are practically where my action bar is and the crosshair thing is too high.

Both these examples are at max zoom out distance

And what I said is at max zoom as well.

Oh wow that is not good.

paratua

One more note for any developers: maintaining aspect ratio by the Y axis was made default in UE 5.3, because it's really a modern standard. It's quite safe to do and if you upgrade the engine to 5.3 or beyond it's going to default on regardless.

Dr3amerA

i thought i had no issue at 3840x1080 but after seeing the photo example i might try this next time and see if there is any difference

TonyOnTap

Dr3amerA wrote: »

i thought i had no issue at 3840x1080 but after seeing the photo example i might try this next time and see if there is any difference

You’ll for sure see the difference! Make sure so set it to windowed mode.

Spif

I play at 2560x1080 (same AR as 3440x1440) which is "less" ultrawide. I did not notice any issues

TonyOnTap

Spif wrote: »

I play at 2560x1080 (same AR as 3440x1440) which is "less" ultrawide. I did not notice any issues

You wouldn’t notice the issue unless you switched to 1980x1080 in windowed mode then you’ll see the massive difference. How much more you can see.

Most people with ultra wides think that’s how the game is suppose to look because they simply don’t know how it’s really suppose to look. Example 1920x1080.

This is a really common issue with games and ultrawides. Usually you can fix this issue by going into the engine.ini files and inserting [/Script/Engine.LocalPlayer]
AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV
Into the last lines of the file. But sadly ashes does not have this file.

Ghostgg

This is the most important thing to fix this week IMO.

TonyOnTap

Ghostgg wrote: »

This is the most important thing to fix this week IMO.

For sure! This is creating a bad experience for many players!

ModestVanity

Please fix this. The nausea while playing is real and I noticed it immediately upon loading into the game. I didn't realize this is what was causing it. Thank you for putting this together. Hopefully, we get it fixed soon!!!

TonyOnTap

ModestVanity wrote: »

Please fix this. The nausea while playing is real and I noticed it immediately upon loading into the game. I didn't realize this is what was causing it. Thank you for putting this together. Hopefully, we get it fixed soon!!!

The nausea was so bad I switched to windowed 1920x1080 till it’s fixed.

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