FINAL FANTASY XIII

FINAL FANTASY XIII

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[How To] Change Resolution without GeDoSaTo (OLD)
By Prinzz
This is a Tutorial, How to fix Resolution after December Update
   
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New Way after Patch
1) Open the Location of you FF13 Game.

2) Open the "setup.xml" in the Root of the Folder.
Open the xml with WordPad or any other Text Editor.


3)Change the Line:
" <full_resolution>0</full_resolution>"
to
" <full_resolution>1</full_resolution>"


Now save the Changes and Start the Launcher.



You should be able now, to change the Resolution to any other Resolution.

That's it.
Other Method (NVidia)
1) Right click your desktop and start "Nvidia Control Panel" -> go to "Adjust desktop size and position" under "Display".

Set the Scaling Mode to "Aspect ratio" and Perform Scaling on "GPU".
Important: Set a tick on the "Override" Optioin.

Should look like this:


If you want to Play on normal Resolution then it's done.


if you want higher Resolution as 1920x1080 then you need to do Following.

[Update] The Resolution 2880x1620 is Perfect for me. The Game looks not so Stretched.

2) Go to "Change resolution" under "Display", Press "Customize", tick the box "Enable Resolutions not exposed by the display" -> Press "Create custom resolution"



3)At this point, for the "lower" resolutions, people might not even need to do further tweaking than to simply write their desired resolution in the following window. Simply replace the "1920" with "2560" and "1080" with "1440" for a desired resolution of 2560x1440. Leave timings to automatic



Press test and one of the following will happen :

- if You get an image, everything works, press save and you got yourself your first downsampling resolution! Just go in-game and change your resolution settings accordingly and you're done! Got to step 4.

- if You get an black ( sometimes flashing red ) screen or your monitor will tell you the current resolution is not supported. (press ESC once or twice and wait for the screen to revert back to normal) If even 2560x1440 didn't work for you then your setup might now jive well with downsampling.

(4) If everything worked, you can go higher and try the following two resolutions that are relatively common and tend to work for people who downsample, again without having to resort to manual timings.
(All of the mentioned resolutions between 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 are all abitrary 16:9 resolutions.)


If the above two resolutions won't work at 60 Hz try 59 Hz.

That's it, Have Fun and Enjoy your Game :)
Other Method (AMD)
(1) make sure GPU scaling is OFF.



Basically, you can download his little program, AMDdownsamplingGUI.



(2) Then change the following numbers to 2560x1440 (NOTE: In order to properly downsample the image, you have to first select 2560x1440. I'll explain a bit more below) then click "OK" to create the resolution.



(3) Now, open up your display properties and you should have the new resolution in your list.



(4) Clicked "Advanced settings" and uncheck this box:



or you'll get this message

Now, select the new resolution and your desktop should scale properly. You can now start a game in 2560x1440 and it will be downsampled accordingly.

Now, if you're wanting a higher resolution, or a proper 16:9 resolution such as 2880x1620, you can repeat the steps above to create that resolution, but to get it to scale properly you must first choose 2560x1440, then from there selecting the 16:9 resolution will work.

The Program was designed with 2560, so that's just how it works. If you choose 2880x1620 (for example) first, you'll only see a corner of your desktop as the image won't be properly scaled.

IMPORTANT: Before you shut down Windows, make sure your resolution's not higher than 2560x1440 or you'll get a black screen upon restart. If that happens, just hit F8 and boot into 640x480.

That's it. Have Fun and Enjoy your Game :)
Change your Graphic Settings (NVidia)
(1) Open the Control Center of NVidia. (right Click on Desktop)

(2) Now go to Manage 3D Settings and choose the Tab "Program Settings".

(3) Add Final Fantasy 13 to the Programs.

(4) Now set AF to 8x, then AA Mode to "Override", AA Settings to 8x,16xCSAA or 32xCSAA thats up to you, Multi Display to Single Display if you use 1 Display, and Power Mode to Maximum Performance!! The Rest can you change or Keep it.


17 Comments
arthurh3535 16 Apr, 2021 @ 12:02pm 
Hmm. On my native UHD monitor, I can not get the windows resolution to add anything beyond 1080p for resolution using the options to edit the setup.xml.
WalkerAllen 27 Apr, 2018 @ 8:04pm 
I do have setup.xml but when I open it all I can see is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SaveData xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<window_mode>1</window_mode>
<voice_mode>1</voice_mode>
<confirm_mode>false</confirm_mode>
</SaveData>
there aren't any <full_resolution>0</full_resolution>
jjco 20 Oct, 2017 @ 2:09am 
I tried to change the full resolution tag from a 0 to a 1, but the game still wouldn't give me any additional resolution options than I had before, I still only get to pick between two resolution options.
karmandroid singularity 6 Feb, 2017 @ 9:50pm 
I couldn't found "Setup.XML".
There are only one XML file, "Config.xml" which doesn't contains <full_resolution> tag.
Prinzz  [author] 17 Dec, 2015 @ 6:54am 
@Foxi thanks for the Info. I will do a new Tutorial if i have Time for it. But i will do one for sure. :)
Nemezo 13 Dec, 2015 @ 5:05pm 
Do a new Tutorial with Nvidia DSR and AMD VSR. Users who don't already know how to enable it, would be Happy. :steamhappy:
Prinzz  [author] 13 Dec, 2015 @ 4:32pm 
yep nvidia have the option with DSR that makes it easier.
This Method is out of date and you can use it on your own risk
Nemezo 10 Dec, 2015 @ 6:20pm 
There's no need for this modification. It can hurt your Hardware (Display) if you set it wrong. It's already implemented in new AMD and Nvidia Drivers. Just use the safe method and enable Downsampling in Driver Settings.
Teram 27 Aug, 2015 @ 1:55pm 
Thank you very much! Can't believe how easy this was XD
Jub 22 Jul, 2015 @ 5:12pm 
For me it says <full_resolution>4</full_resolution> and it wont let me change the resolution no matter what i do.