How to remove Death Stranding Ultra Wide Black Bars on PC

Death Stranding Ultra Wide Black Bars
Death Stranding

Death Stranding is finally available on PC via Steam and Epic Games Store. The game originally came out on PS4 last year and was an exclusive for 6 months. This is the first game from Kojima Productions and earned a lot of critical acclaim last year. Some players however are running into some technical problems, and we hope the developers address those soon. If you want to remove the Death Stranding Ultra Wide Black Bars problem, here’s how you can do it.

The game also supports DLSS 2.0 for NVIDIA users, and they can make the game look sharper, and earn more FPS at their current resolutions.

Death Stranding Ultra Wide Black Bars

While the game does have ultra-wide support, players can’t seem to get rid of the black bars that come with it. To fix this, you will need to download Hex.

After you have installed it. Follow the steps below.

  • Run HxD and then click File and open Ds.exe in it
  • Now, press Ctrl+R on your keyboad and select “Hex-values”
  • After this click on Search Direction “All”
  • Type in 55 55 15 40 in Search for
  • Replace this Hex value of your Resolution’s Aspect Ratio from the list below

Here are some common resolutions values

  • 2560×1080 = 26 B4 17 40
  • 3440×1440 = 8E E3 18 40
  • 3840×1080 = 39 8E 63 40
  • 3840×1440 = AB AA 2A 40
  • 3840×1600 = 9A 99 19 40
  • 3840×1620 = 26 B4 17 40
  • 5120×1440 = 39 8E 63 40
  • 5120×2160 = 26 B4 17 40
  • 6880×2880 = 8E E3 18 40

All credits for this guide go to Steam user FasterThanFTL. After following these steps, your game should look the screenshot below.

Death Stranding Ultra Wide Black Bars
Death Stranding Screen without black bars

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