I've never understood the appeal of ultrawide monitors. I dare say there's such a thing as Too Wide, where the extra visual space becomes a waste of electricity unless you're watching the screen in pairs. I'd assume that people who use ultrawide monitors are constantly afraid of side maneuvers and demand maximum peripheral vision. Mind you, I usually play games with my nose about 10 centimeters away from the screen. Forget about being flanked – what I worry about is the possibility of snipers in front of me.
If you're one of those people who's been super concerned about sidekicks, Uncle BioWare has some great news for you. The upcoming RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard will support 21:9 ultrawide monitors. The ultrawide functionality extends to cinematics – otherwise you can disable “cinematic aspect ratios” to turn off the black bars that block your view. It's one of several PC-specific improvements they just mentioned on their blog. Check it out.
Proper panoramic views aside, Veilguard will offer HDR and unlimited frame rates, along with a FOV slider. It also supports a bunch of different ray tracing features, from ray-traced reflections to an “Ultra RT” mode for “extremely high-end hardware.” I'm guessing none of these will work on my own PC, which despises Ray and all his work.
There will be upgrade options in the form of NVIDIA DLSS 3, FSR 2.2 – “heavily modified specifically for the game” – and XeSS. Veilguard also supports DLSS 3 with frame rendering and NVIDIA Reflex. All of this is in addition to some more familiar graphics tweaks that will let you mismanage and warp the simulation like one of the game's own escaped Elven gods. You can increase or decrease texture quality, play with shadows, apply camera effects like motion blur, and increase or decrease the hairiness of hair. Check out the full blog for more.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard comes out on October 31st. I was pretty nervous at first. There are still a few things I'm not sure about. But now I'm really looking forward to it, simply because I love the world of Dragon Age. So is former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah, who is returning to work as a consultant on Veilguard. He thinks Veilguard is the first Dragon Age where “the combat is actually fun.”