Guild Wars 2

Hello all,

I hope to restart playing GW2 after having had something of an extended break from the game.

EDIT: All drivers are up to date from manufacturers web site where possible and windows update is fully up to date. My OS is windows 8.1.
I have an eyefinity rig with three side by side monitors (3*1) and have noticed, sadly, that the character select screen is out of scale and the in game UI has elements out to the extents of the side monitors – such as mini map and chat.

When I used to play regular, I was active on the forums asking AN about eyefinity solutions and helping other eyefinity users with such. When I last played regularly, all the game scaling and UI placement issues with eyefinity had been resolved. Now it seems there has been a step backwards regarding eyefinity or eyefinity support.

So;

Is there a way in game or in the game settings to make the character select or other screens scale properly with eyefinity?

Is there a way to move UI elements to a more usable placement for eyefinity?

I am playing GW2 from an old ‘install’ whereby I only use the game files from a secondary drive (updated as usual by launcher) with my OS on my primary drive. Is there a set up file that can be altered to force eyefinity compatibility?

Has AN simply stopped all eyefinity support?

I do not wish to use any third party tool to give eyefintity compatibility.

Not having eyefinity support is not entirely enough to put me off playing GW2 but it is a real problem – getting the scaling and UI placement issues resolved would be great.

If replying to this thread, please try to be helpful and please realize that I am not asking for a debate on the virtues or lack thereof relating to eyefinity use – I would simply like to play the game with the scaling and UI issues resolved.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Some info on my (current) rig for playing GW2;

Intel i5 4670k @ 3.40GHz (4.00 GHz)
8 GB corsair vengeance ram (1600Mhz)
Radeon R9 270X 1020MHz 2GB
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming mobo
Corsair 860w PSU
Corsair Force GS 128 SSD – OS
Seagate Barracuda 1.36TB HDD – GW2 (and others)

Incidental; awaiting delivery of further 8 GB corsair vengeance ram (1600Mhz) and Radeon R9 270X 1020MHz 2GB (for crossfire)

Edit: Windows update is fully up to date, all drivers are up to date (from manufacturers where possible) and my OS is windows 8.1.

Edit2: I have currently got the game / launcher running and ‘Verifying Archive …’ as an attempt to solve any archive / install issues.

Tried to add this as update but system went askew so posting as reply

I personally only have 1 monitor but I recall seeing that someone wrote recently that setting Interface Size to small would help with this. Small, on the other hand, makes TP almost impossible to read, so if there’s no other solution you have to switch back to normal when buying or selling something.

@locx;

Thanks for the reply.

I have tried setting the interface size to small and all other settings and it does not fix the problem at all for me.

Update: completed verify archive and this changed nothing.

Have also ran two other games to test eyefinity – LOTRO and RIFT – both work fine with good UI placement after I used feature to move the UI elements in both games. Would be nice to have that feature in GW2 then I could at least move the UI elements. Not too bothered with character select but if the scaling issue is present at character creation and or with cut scenes this would be something of a put off – not enough in themselves to stop game play but still irritating.

the -uispanallmonitors function should fix the ui issues, though i think scaling was fixed awhile ago

other things you could try: deleteing the local settings file, rolling back/clean installing drivers, doing a clean install of the game (as a last resort)

Do the problems still occur with in Fullscreen Windowed mode?

sry, i use nVidia surround and it seems support for it is slightly better than eyefinity.

You could always go for flawless widescreen as it supports gw2.

dodgycookies.4562:

the -uispanallmonitors function should fix the ui issues, though i think scaling was fixed awhile ago

other things you could try: deleteing the local settings file, rolling back/clean installing drivers, doing a clean install of the game (as a last resort)

Do the problems still occur with in Fullscreen Windowed mode?

sry, i use nVidia surround and it seems support for it is slightly better than eyefinity.

You could always go for flawless widescreen as it supports gw2.

Hallo!

I’ll answer this before posting a closing post.

I was surprised to see issues as I know they were resolved a long time ago.

As for roll backs / clean installs – I may not have been clear about the PC being essentially a new build using a few parts from the old. OS and drivers are completely new – that said read my next post.

Problems were present in full screen windowed.

GW2 has always had better Nvidia surround support compared to eyefinity. I have posted previously about this a lot when I played regular.

Flawless (more or less) emulates Nvidia surround on eyefinity systems for GW2. I did briefly try Flawless anew to check the issue but it did not work. Also, I do not want to use any third party fixes.

Thanks for the reply – it would have been useful except that the problem is fixed (see closing post) and it did make me think on some points.

So! The closing post from me – AN please feel free to close the thread but leaving it in place not deleted could be of use to others.

You forum folk are great. Thanks for the replies.

I got my second GFX card and further memory as I wrote about earlier and now have crossfire working fine.

As usual when changing GFX device(s), I uninstalled the drivers before the change and reinstalled after.

The problem remained so I switched the PC off hoping to come back and sort the issue later.

As is want to happen, a mate called wanting to borrow some PC components – for the room where my main PC is read ‘Place where old computers go to pieces’!

Anywho, long story short, I gave my old eyefinity card to my mate and showed him the basics of using catalyst control centre to set up eyefinity by deleting my presets and setting eyefinity back up. I went on to show how GW2 was great looking in eyefinity but not working as expected just now. Egg – Face – Contact!

Glad to report GW2 is happily chugging away with no eyefinity issues – character select scales great, ui elements in good place and all is happy.

Reinstall of drivers? Win 8.1 throwing its dummy out of the pram? Luck of the draw? Me trying to sort issues out when too tired though I should (and usually do) know better? Either way, its all sauteed now.

After thirty plus years tinkering and proper experience including college and (some) in the workplace, many built and maintained PCs and other general ignorance I really ought to know better than to ‘panic’.

Thanks again.