New Update on 20/10/21 seems to have broken the patch

[nes4day]

There was a patch earlier today that allegedly removed Denuvo, and after running the script, Steam reports a game load error.

[WinkelCode]

Seems like the update broke stuff. I'll look into it.

[WinkelCode]

Good news! Seems like despite removing Denuvo, the new DRM is more annoying... at least for us :)

The solution is to simply remove the new Steam DRM from the exe: https://github.com/atom0s/Steamless (Compile it yourself or grab the latest build from the "Releases" button on the right side)

FYI: You can copy the extracted "Steamless" folder and the Ace7Game.exe both to a Windows Sandbox window, you can remove the DRM there, in case you want to do that. (I don't have any reason to mistrust Steamless, but since it works.)

Make sure to rename the extracted .exe back to "Ace7Game.exe" and put it back in the original directory. IMPORTANT: Make sure it's not Ace7Game.exe.exe, enable file extensions in Explorer if you haven't already (you REALLY should!)

I will be looking into automating this or improving the workflow in other ways, but for now this should work.

I tested the into sequence and everything looked OK, though I think the FOV might be higher than it should be (I'll look into that later). Since we're removing DRM (and FOV might be too high in the current version), I'd hold off on playing multiplayer for now. I don't really care about AC7 multiplayer myself so I might just try it later and see if I get banned by the anticheat.

[nes4day]

That worked really well, did some quick testing and found no issues, thank you. Another question if you don't mind, was the old-issue with HUD alignment in Minigame Cutscenes (Refuel, Landing/Take-off; see attached) ever resolved?

[WinkelCode]

I am not aware of any fixes regarding this issue, the main part of the 3Dmigoto fix is generic and automatically finds elements to readjust. You can read more here (if you speak regex): https://github.com/mpm11011/ac7-ultrawide/blob/master/Mods/hudtextfix.ini

Since the icon to skip and the subtitles are both shifted, and I think they are separate elements, the fix may be thinking it's not "$in_game".

It's been a while but I believe I was the one who wrote the "$in_game" part and it was mostly just randomly finding a shader that's there in the menus but not the game (menus center fine usually).

I've been meaning to look into remaking some parts of the fix to address common problems people are facing so this is something to add to the list, maybe there is a better shader or method to do this with.

I believe if you open the pause menu you can actually see some parts of the HUD shifting during the fade, that's related to the whole "$in_game" thing.

Edit: Just noticed, "$in_game" had "TODO - better way to do this?" in a comment since October 2019, classic.

[nes4day]

I played around with that INI in the past, but it came to nothing. Thank you again for helping me on this, hopefully you will find some better way to implement fixes, but either way, the game is perfectly playable with the current fix.

[WinkelCode]

If the option is available for you, please reopen the issue since the core problem isn't fixed.

[nes4day]

Done, reopened

[erockg74]

New to the AC series. Just bought AC7 on 2021-12-28 excited to play on new Samsung Odyssey Neo G9. Shocked AC7 isn't 32:9 out of the box. Installed and executed Seamless on AC7 exe file. Installed Python and downloaded 3Dmigoto-1.3.16.zip. Followed the instructions and troubleshooting from various sites. Works fantastically! AC7 is much more fun in glorious 5440x1440. Thanks!

[QuadReaktor]

Today or yesterday was a new update I dont know if it don't works because of that.
I have this error: here a picture. I hope anyone have a fix that we can play AC7 again in Utrawidescreen :

[WinkelCode]

I believe that error comes from the DRM when the executable is modified, did you remove the DRM with Steamless first?

Edit: You'll also have to use Steamless after every update that changes the executable (usually every update).

[QuadReaktor]

Yeah now it works, thanks a lot !! Am Fr., 21. Jan. 2022 um 00:11 Uhr schrieb martinsstuff < ***@***.***>:

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[Marshara]

Hello everyone, I'm completely new to this, which is why I would like to ask for a bit of guidance. I have followed your guide and ended with the same error as everyone else, but here I'm lost. I downloaded Steamless and unpacked it, grabbed Ace7Game.exe file and threw it into the unpacked folder and expected magic... I was obviously wrong haha. Could please someone guide me how to apply Steamless to AC7.exe file properly?

Update: managed to find a version of Steamless with .exe file, works now. The only question left is: I have UI on my left monitor, which isn't exactly a good thing... :D did anyone have a similar issue and solved it?

Thank you in advance and have a nice day :)