Will RTW 2 have 21:9 aspect ratio support?

[mp84]

Curious everyone,

About a few months ago I brought a Dell U2913WM Ultra Widescreen 29'' Monitor.

Overall, I've been happy with it, but naturally the one downside currently is since this is fairly new tech many games (at least the ones I like, heh) still don't support the aspect ratio of 21:9 and even sometimes the 2560x1080 resolution it gives, but the aspect ratio is more of a problem I noticed than the resolution. Naturally, sometimes I'm able to find ways around the problem with a program called Flawless Widescreen which is just a simply plugin to run in the background while the game plays and it will support the 21:9 ratio. Works beautiful for games like Skyrim and Mass Effect 3, and other more popular games.

Now, we're about 8 or so months into the release of this monitor, since games are now starting to showcase this my hope is RTW 2 will have no problems in supporting this resolution. Thus the question I have is basically what I stated in my title thread, will RTW 2 support 21:9 ratio?

I understand it's hard to tell now cause the game is not out, but maybe someone has caught an interview or preview that saying it will be supported, or most importantly people have played Shogun 2 and somehow it gets supported there, as I currently don't have the game installed to check it myself. (Kind of avoiding it too since RTW 2 is so close, and would rather wait for the release of a new total war title.) or even a better since the Devs view this forums too, maybe they can give a quick "yes or no" answer!

thanks everyone,

[DogSoldierSPQR]

I don't believe we've heard any answers or even asked any questions about things like this but if this is a new technology coming in on the scene and it's being adopted by a lot of monitors, you may see it but I'd be wary though. Sometimes it takes a while for others to catch up. For example, Windows 8. It's been out a while but there are still a shortage of drivers for many things and other things don't have support for it. However, Windows 7 things can run on it a lot of the time etc.

I hope you get this, mate. That resolution does sound good though

[mp84]

I don't believe we've heard any answers or even asked any questions about things like this but if this is a new technology coming in on the scene and it's being adopted by a lot of monitors, you may see it but I'd be wary though. Sometimes it takes a while for others to catch up. For example, Windows 8. It's been out a while but there are still a shortage of drivers for many things and other things don't have support for it. However, Windows 7 things can run on it a lot of the time etc.

I hope you get this, mate. That resolution does sound good though

tell me about it... When games support this, it flat out looks amazing, but even on the more popular ones like Skyrim or Mass Effect 3 there are still issues, however those have easy work arounds through that program I mentioned earlier, but not all games get that kind of support through that Flawless Widescreen program.

A great example, the newest game of Xcom by 2k, the 3rd person shooter, The Bureau: Xcom Declassified, looks like at first glance supports the 21:9 Aspect Ratio with 2560x1080 resolution, but as you play you notice some menu screens are clearly cut off from view. The worse one is the Squad Management screen of it, which totally cuts off the "add squad" button which you naturally can't even proceed the first time you ever load it since the game wants you to select 2 squad mates, and won't let you leave the screen until you do, but you literally can't, lol. The only fix for that currently is simply going to 1920x1080 to make the selections you need to make, and than go back to your native resolution after making the selection as playing at 1920x1080 on this type of monitor is terrible since you'll get "black screens" on both sides as it tries to do the 16:9 ratio for you, and stretching it simply looks awful. (thus it's pretty much native or don't play the game until it's fixed, lol)

Thus, my hope is RTW 2 since this type of ratio on these monitors has been out for a while now that they maybe thought ahead and made sure there's support for this, or I honestly may have to start looking into a 27'' monitor instead till the 21:9 aspect ratio simply becomes more mainstream, as RTW 2 may be the nail in the coffin they gets me to downgrade on my monitor as for as pretty the Total War game is, it's also a very menu driven based game.

[Frost, colonel]

What GPU do you have for that high res?
I just bought for RTWII a 24"Dell IPS panel, 1920x1200, which I think is a 16:10 ratio. I'm hoping this is also ok for the game?

Would of liked a 27" but for a good screen image I would want a 2560x1080 res, and what with the extra for the bigger monitor and a £500 GPU to run decent FPS it's an extra £500 in total.
Life has to be about compromise for the skint, and hopefully not for you on technical support issues!

[mp84]

What GPU do you have for that high res?
I just bought for RTWII a 24"Dell IPS panel, 1920x1200, which I think is a 16:10 ratio. I'm hoping this is also ok for the game?

Would of liked a 27" but for a good screen image I would want a 2560x1080 res, and what with the extra for the bigger monitor and a £500 GPU to run decent FPS it's an extra £500 in total.
Life has to be about compromise for the skint, and hopefully not for you on technical support issues!

My GPU is a GTX 690 (4 GB total available VRAM) so I shouldn't have any big issues running Rome 2 when it's out soon.

Well, looks like overall the general consensus will be a wait and see approach about the support to that kind of resolution.

[PhallosMaximus]

I used to have a 26" Asus, 1.920 x 1.200 and Shogun 2 looked really nice on that.

Now I'm rockin' a 27" Dell in 2.560 x 1.440 and all my games have got an upgrade with that resolution,- really worth it
In general it has cost me 5-10 fps, but the details are amazing. You can't go back...

Cheers,

[alQamar]

OP they do not have even multimonitor support (confirmed information).

Who at CA cares for 21:9 lol, when they make gameplay videos of Rome 2 with DirectX9

[SPARTAN VI]

So do we now know if Rome 2 supports 21:9 aspect ratio? I'm on the fence about these ultra wide screens, but its gaming support seems to be relatively scarce.