Brief updates (Forza Horizon 4, WSGF)
Added 2021-03-04 21:48:20 +0000 UTCFollowing a series of requests by several WSGF users to contribute Detailed Reports, my inability to help due to my moderator status only affecting the subreddit and Discord, and the founder being reasonably busy with life, today we heard back from one of the old-school admins and he added two new users to the list, also elevating my privileges on the site. Now I can contribute content directly to the website and grant the Insider role to trusted users willing to submit or update Detailed Reports.
In other news, someone from /r/ultrawidemasterrase pinged me and requested that I look into Forza Horizon 4, with three users saying that the game is "cropped" and there are black bars at the cutscenes. I downloaded the rather large game and found no FOV reduction at 21:9.
The cutscenes were indeed windowboxed, though showed signs of being pre-rendered, making the only possible solution to force them to fill the horizontal space, pushing out the embedded black bars. This would be good for 21:9 but undesirable at any other aspect ratio. Unfortunately, the game appeared to protect itself from modification, resulting in crashes when attempting to debug or make small changes to the code. The behavior is very uncommon but not unexpected in a multiplayer-supported game.
The game is coming to Steam in just a couple of days but I don't think it will be any different then. Over and out?
Comments
Whoa! :D What an interesting coincidence! After attempting to debug, I also tried some of the usual basic changes like replacing the aspect ratio bytes, but even these things caused the game to crash upon reaching a cutscene (most likely its call for the bytes).
Rose
2021-03-04 22:39:56 +0000 UTCYeah... I'm The_Zealot on Reddit. *grin* I also follow you on kofi with that username. I searched in there if you had indicated what your reddit username would be, found it, and I tagged you there. I knew that if anyone could handle it, you'd be it. Considering that I can use my DualSense controller with DS4Windows on the Microsoft Store version of FH4, I don't think I'll need to bother with the Steam version. Having said that, considering how we are bound to have new ultrawide players getting the Steam version, someone might want to revisit that Steam version. Or not, since the game itself does support 21:9, and it might not be worth the effort. Once again, thank you very much for trying.
Eleriam
2021-03-04 22:35:03 +0000 UTC
