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Best Ultrawide Configuration
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The guide to optimal ultrawide support within the game.
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Guide Index
Overview
Introductions and Setting Up.
 
Step 1.
 
Step 2.
 
Step 3.
 
Step 4.
 
Optional/Ending.
 
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Introductions and Setting Up.
This guide aims to give an optimal experience when playing with an ultrawide resolution.
An ultrawide resolution consists of 3440 x 1440 or 2560 x 1080 in most cases.

NieR: Automata is an all time favorite of mine.
I wanted to make this guide to address the procedures I took for an optimal experience.

Things you should own before following this guide.
  1. An ultrawide monitor.
  2. A PC capable of running NieR: Automata.
  3. An XBOX/PS4 controller.

If you meet the above requirements, continue to Step 1.
Step 1.
Our first step is to get the latest version of the FAR mod.
Originally posted by Aemony:
The FAR mod provides fixes for the fullscreen issue, cutscene stuttering as well as a bunch of other issues with the game and generally provides a better experience regardless of your build.
  • Aemony created a wonderful guide that will allow you to understand what the mod provides.
  • You can get that here.
  • Once installed, follow the FAR guide to set up: “Hide Mouse Cursor”, “Enable High-Quality Bloom & AO”, and “Enable Higher Frame Rate (>60 FPS)”.

Please note that you should only enable higher frame rate if you run a refresh rate above 60hz.

When FAR is successfully setup, continue to Step 2.
Step 2.
Our next step is to install a work in progress texture mod.

NieR: Automata suffers from low textures which GPUnity aims to correct.
  • They have created an easy to follow guide which shows how to install, and fixes the mod provides.
  • You can find that guide here.
  • I highly recommend you install the textures on an SSD, as it will result in the least about of stuttering.

Once the texture files are installed, proceed to Step 3.
Step 3.
Our third step is to install Vidsquish which creates 60fps cutscenes.

NieR: Automata's cutscenes are pre-rendered and locked to 30fps.
  • A simple to use tool called Vidsquish was created to fix this issue.
  • Thanks to Lulech23 for creating this, we are able to have 60fps cutscenes.
  • You can find a link to this here.

Once you select NieR Automata for the operation profile, it will ask you to select the project folder.
In my case, this was under:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\NieRAutomata\data\movie
In the movie folder, click the "open" button, and select the rest of the settings for Vidsquish.
When all settings are selected, click the "Start" button in the lower right.
This will take some time to convert the files.
Patience is of the utmost importance.

If you noticed the 21:9 cropped option, do not use this as it won't work with the next step.

After the conversion is complete, continue to Step 4.
Step 4.
Our last step is to fix the HUD from stretching.

The HUD in NieR: Automata is stretched to support ultrawide resolutions, which is very distracting.
  • We are able to fix this with a corrected NieRAutomata.exe created by jackfuste.[www.wsgf.org]
  • Download all six .rar files, highlight them, and extract.
  • Simply find the original .exe where you installed NieR, and replace it with the new .exe under your labeled resolution.
  • (Don't replace the steam_api64, steam_api64.dll, and steam_emu as they disable online support and cause crashes.)
  • You can find the download here.[www.wsgf.org]

Now that the HUD is corrected, proceed to Optional/Ending.
Optional/Ending.
Optionally, we can correct the unpleasant camera settings.

NieR's default camera settings feel very slow and sluggish.
  • Using the above settings, the camera will feel much more fluid.

You have reached the end of the guide.

Hopefully this guide will be useful to someone, as it was for me.
I highly recommend you play with an XBOX/PS4 controller.
The game heavily relies on a controller for support.

For the Glory of Mankind
21 Comments
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casedistorted 20 Jul, 2021 @ 6:27pm 
Luckily the latest patch removed the need for a 21:9 patch since it works now and no stretched HUD, but still need GigaPixel's movie mod replacement, the PS4 button mod and Special K to replace FAR mod now (same thing new name).
aguswings 28 Jan, 2021 @ 9:39pm 
what ratio do you use for STEP 3 if you have multi-mon" (48x9)? There's no option there
Poqi 26 Oct, 2020 @ 2:13am 
Nice guide! I went through all of the steps and I have a few things to report back for new people interested in this guide -

Step 1

Enabling higher frame rate breaks the game. At 100 frames the small changes in the physics caused me to repeatedly fail. Changing the cap back to 60 fixed all issues.

Step 2

Nothing to note here - the file size to download is 1.0 GB for who it may concern.

Step 3

The new cut scenes flow much better, although the whole process took me around 20 hours.

Step 4

I'm not sure what the original guide means by saying to "download all 6 .rar files"
Wide Screen Gaming redirects you to a page where you download the UI fix; select your resolution and you only download one file. Replace only the .exe and it works.
Jadex 26 Sep, 2020 @ 2:00pm 
Heya for the link to Jacks Hud fix I don't see any download for a hud fix just the main page for nier it seems
Autissima 3 Jul, 2020 @ 1:49am 
Thanks for the guide and compilation.

Even though the tutorial for FAR makes this point, the 60FPS lock is tied to ingame physics, and some mechanics, so that setting might break stuff really hard, you might want to include that warning :)

Brilliant otherwise though, thank you again.
Whyyawannabringmedown 29 Feb, 2020 @ 7:29pm 
Alright, thanks for the clarification!
✗  [author] 29 Feb, 2020 @ 7:23pm 
If you are using 16:9 then this guide wasn't intended for you, but you should skip step 4 as that one won't apply to your resolution. As for the Vidsquish, I am unsure of the length of time it takes as every system is different so on some systems it will be faster where others are slower.
Whyyawannabringmedown 29 Feb, 2020 @ 7:03pm 
Thanks for the effort put into this guide!

One question regarding step 4 "HUD fix":
I downloaded the .exe files from
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1660-nier-automata-hud-fix/ , coming as three .7z archives, providing following resolutions: "multi-mon" (48x9 | 48x10), "superwide" (3840x1080 | 3840x1600) and "ultrawide" (2560x1080 | 3440x1440).

I am using a 32" display with 4K (3840x2160) resolution, which I have reduced ingame to FHD (1920x1080) due to the limitted performance of my GTX 960 (4GB VRAM). There is no exact match for my resolutions, which one do I pick? Or may I skip this step, since I am already using 16:9 aspect ratio, which is supported out of the box?

One final note: it might be good to re-emphasize the quite time-consuming video transformation process using Vidsquish that @oderso has already mentioned, could help to plan better ahead when to actually run it; unluckily, only one CPU core is utilised.
§iL€ŋT 17 Feb, 2020 @ 4:23pm 
woot
dudathp8 16 Feb, 2020 @ 6:25am 
Working on 02/2020 big thx