After nearly fifteen years since the last major entry in the series,Stalker 2is out on PC and Xbox consoles, achieving a highly successful launch by selling over a million copies in just two days. While Stalker 2 does have ultrawide support on PC, it’s absent during cutscenes and doesn’t have proper FOV scaling in gameplay. Thankfully, Lyall has come to the rescue and released a tool to fix the Stalker 2 ultrawide issues on PC.
Fixing Stalker 2 Ultrawides Issues on PC
Stalker 2 has ultrawide support but the cutscenes are rendered with black bars at the sides, and the game uses vert-scaling in aspect ratios of 21:9 or higher, which leads to a cropped image at these resolutions. The patch by Lyall addresses both problems by correcting the scaling and removing pillarboxing from the presentation.
Installing the tool is pretty simple, and here is how it works.
That’s all you need to do, and the next time you launch Stalker 2, it will be rendered correctly. Here is a comparison provided by Lyall that shows an early cutscene fixed with the STALKER2Tweak tool.
The STALKER2Tweak also adds the following improvements and features:
You can adjust these by editing theSTALKER2Tweak.inifile, which can be found in the following location:
To disable any of the STALKER2Tweak features, simply change the value of ‘Enabled’ to false for the specific parameter. We highly recommend leaving everything set to true, as all these changes are a net improvement.
All credits go toLyallfor creating and testing the tool. You can learn more about their work at theirKo-fiandPatreon.
If you’re looking to improve the Stalker 2 PC experience, you can disable theshader compilation process,mouse smoothing,vignette, and even adjust the FOVbeyond the in-game limit. If you’re struggling to maintain a decent framerate, check out ourrecommendations for the best graphics settings for Stalker 2.
Ali Hashmi
Ali has been writing about video games for the past six years and is always on the lookout for the next indie game to obsess over and recommend to everyone in sight. When he isn’t spending an unhealthy amount of time in Slay the Spire, he’s probably trying out yet another retro-shooter or playing Dark Souls for the 50th time.
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