This game supports widescreen out of the box up to 16:10 aspect ratio. To enable the higher aspect ratios you must select the screen resolution from the FFXI config utility in windows then set the aspect ratio in the in-game config settings.
This game requires the user to change the aspect ratio from the in-game settings. You can change the aspect ratio at any time with any resolution.
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resolutions not listed can be set in the registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PlayOnlineUS\FinalFantasyXI\]
*for x64 change it to Wow6432Node\SOFTWARE....
** for other game versions change PlayOnlineUS to either PlayOnlineEU or PlayOnlineJP
0001 - for width
0002 - for height
for 1920x1080 you would set 0001 to 1920 and 0002 to 1080. (decimal)
important! = custom resolutions require a 3rd party program called "FFXI windower", otherwise FFXI will just return something like "Direct3d could not be initialized..."
=Background Resolution=
in FFXI there is a 2nd resolution called "Background Resolution" the Config natively lets you set:
256x256, 512x512 and 1024x1024.
I think its the "base" resolution.
i.e. everything in the game is in the background resolution and then gets scaled to the output resolution.
0003 - for width
0004 - for height
it should be said that the background resolution can be set to a max of 2048x2048, no more.
