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Making the game run in 1080p (borderless window)
By Sonlir
Annoyed by the game refusing to work in 1080p and sticking to a wrong aspect ratio with dedication worthy of a better cause?
This guide might provide a quick and dirty solution to that issue via several simple cfg file edits.
   
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Category: Modding or Configuration
Languages: English
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29 Aug, 2016 @ 9:32am
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Overview
Where are the cfg files? 
Editing the cfg files 
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Where are the cfg files?
The 2 files you need are render.cfg and settings.cfg and can be found in the documents folder.

Example path
C:\Users\[Your Username here]\Documents\WB Games\Shadow of Mordor
Editing the cfg files
Open render.cfg with notepad or other text editor and find the setting "AspectRatioLock" and change whatever number behind it to 0.

Like this
"Render.Setting.AspectRatioLock" "0.000000"

Then open up settings.cfg

There are 3 settings to change here.
Set screen height and width to your preferred values

Example
"ScreenHeight" "1080.000000"
"ScreenWidth" "1920.000000"

And then change
"Windowed" "0.000000"
And replace the first 0 with a 1 or 2

0 is for full screen that probably won't work properly if you already have issues (the game seems to dislike widescreen VGA monitors and multi monitor setups)

1 runs the game in a window

2 runs the game in a borderless window that for all intents and purposes looks like full screen.
Done
After editing the cfg files save the changes and run the game.

It solved my issues with the game and i hope it solves yours.
12 Comments
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zuhare 7 Dec, 2018 @ 3:06am 
ok thanks:steamhappy:
Sonlir  [author] 5 Dec, 2018 @ 1:54pm 
No you just edit 2 text files. It won't increase space requirements as far as the hard drive is concerned.
Though a higher resolution will require more vram on the GPU if the game forces you into a lower resolution and you use this method to up the pixelcount.
zuhare 5 Dec, 2018 @ 11:49am 
does it take up any space im kinda full
@hashtagzema 7 Aug, 2017 @ 2:57pm 
Yeah the game works in 1080 for me just fine.
Sonlir  [author] 26 Jun, 2017 @ 1:51pm 
Hey no problem. happy it helped. Yeah games are sometimes really annoying when they fail at properly autodetecting the resolution and then go out of their way to prevent you from fixing their mistake.
Heinz-Achmed 26 Jun, 2017 @ 11:20am 
Thanks for your instructions! :steamhappy: This bloody game was driving me insane with its stubbornness...
AyleidRuin 11 Apr, 2017 @ 11:55pm 
Thank You :bpkey:Sonlir:OpenTreasureChest:
Sonlir  [author] 21 Nov, 2016 @ 5:51am 
Maybe but at least i know how to make it work for me.
Chaython 20 Nov, 2016 @ 3:24pm 
Jeeze your setup is trash bruh
Sonlir  [author] 20 Nov, 2016 @ 5:02am 
Not all setups are the same if the game runs without problems on your hardware then great.

In my case the game assumed i had an 1600x1200 monitor and scaled everything accordingly so i couldn't even pick 1080p because the game desperately tried to play in the wrong aspect ratio.

Hence removing the aspect ratio lock and setting everything up from the ini/cfg files.