Fallout 4 Players Aren't Happy About the Game's 'Ultrawide' Support

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Fallout 4 fans are very disappointed with the recently released next-gen update and some of its features, like the lackluster addition of «ultrawide» support. Despite being delayed for a long period of time, the free next-gen patch for Fallout 4 has no shortage of issues on all platforms. What should have been an easy cause for celebration among fans of the 2015 RPG has instead turned into a point of frustration and criticism towards Bethesda's handling of this update within the Fallout community.

The Fallout franchise has had somewhat of a resurgence in recent weeks, thanks in no small part to the massive success of Amazon's critically acclaimed live-action Fallout TV show. Nearly every game in the Fallout series has gotten a big player boost because of it on platforms like Steam. To coincide with the release of Amazon's Fallout show, Bethesda finally unveiled a release date for the next-gen update for Fallout 4 that it announced back in 2022. Unfortunately, though, a lot of the excitement surrounding this patch has been muted thanks to a number of issues plaguing the additions in this update, with this latest problem being particularly egregious.

Fans have discovered that the so-called 'ultrawide' support added to the PC version of Fallout 4 in the next-gen update has one major problem: all the UI elements are stretched to accommodate the resolution of 21:9 and 32:9 monitors. This gives the game an ugly appearance, even on the best ultrawide gaming monitors, and makes the menus look quite rough. To make matters even worse, Fallout 4 also fails to recognize the native resolution of monitors with ultrawide resolutions if Windows display scaling settings are set to anything other than 100%, which makes this poorly implemented feature all the more frustrating.

To solve this glaring issue, fans playing the Steam version of the game on a 21:9 monitor are using an old community-made mod named TRUBY9 ULTRAWIDE that adjusts the size of UI elements to properly fit the