Hi, new to these forums but been flight simming (and lately a weekend co-pilot) since 1986.  I have a Samsung G9 ultrawide and Nvidia 3080 laptop but the MSFS screen is stretched out unless I change to window mode (see pics)  How do you make it run full screen without stretching?  I have Windows graphics setting at 5120×1440 but the MSFS graphics settings for "full screen mode" max out at 1920x1080.  I don't understand it.   I have no problem running X-Plane 11 in full screen at 5120x1440.  

Thanks for help! 

 

I have 5120x1440 as an option for full screen here on my CRG9 monitor. I can’t remember having to do anything special for it to appear. 

Set your zoom level correctly and the stretching will be minimised, the general problem is that default levels of zoom provide too far wide a field of vision compared to the size of the screen, ie the zoom level is too wide and needs to be narrowed

Use a higher zoom value. 
That will make the stretching less.

The drawback is that you need to set terrain LOD and Objects LOD also to a higher value as you zoom more into the distance. And this is costing FPS .

For a real fix for your ultrawide monitor and people using NVSURROUND it is Asobo who needs to make a fisheye correction fix...

6 hours ago, kand said:

Set your zoom level correctly and the stretching will be minimised, the general problem is that default levels of zoom provide too far wide a field of vision compared to the size of the screen, ie the zoom level is too wide and needs to be narrowed

That's not his problem. One of his screenshots clearly shows the instrument overlay is distorted.This is a Windows issue, not MSFS.

2 minutes ago, MarkDH said:

That's not his problem. One of his screenshots clearly shows the instrument overlay is distorted.This is a Windows issue, not MSFS.

apologies OP I didnt read it properly!

I use Nvsurround and the wide desktop resolution (5840 x 1080)  is available in MSFS both in full screen and windowed.  Full screen isnt really full screen, its just borderless windowed. Suggest raising a zendesk on this one 

10 hours ago, FigaroAir said:

I have Windows graphics setting at 5120×1440 but the MSFS graphics settings for "full screen mode" max out at 1920x1080.

I also have a Samsung G9. Not sure why you can't select 5120 x 1440 in the MSFS graphics settings, as I was able to. However, you may be able to force it. Locate your UserCfg.opt file (for Steam, located in folder %appdata%\Microsoft Flight Simulator) and open it with a plain text editor (not a word processor). At the top of the file is the Video section. You can change the resolution there. Mine looks like this:

{Video
	Adapter "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti"
	Monitor 0
	Windowed 1
	FullscreenBorderless 1
	Resolution 5120 1440
	FullScreenResolution 5120 1440
	PrimaryScaling 1.000000
	SecondaryScaling 1.000000
	VSync 0
	HDR10 0
	PosX 1
	PosY 0
}

Make sure you do not have MSFS running while making any changes.

Hope that helps,

...jim

27 minutes ago, JimBrown said:

you may be able to force it....

Along similar lines, I seem to recall that in FSX and P3D you could delete all the sections labelled '[Display.Device...]' in p3d.cfg and it would rebuild them properly when you restarted. Dunno if there's any parallel in MSFS.

On 5/25/2021 at 6:55 AM, JimBrown said:

I also have a Samsung G9. Not sure why you can't select 5120 x 1440 in the MSFS graphics settings, as I was able to. However, you may be able to force it. Locate your UserCfg.opt file (for Steam, located in folder %appdata%\Microsoft Flight Simulator) and open it with a plain text editor (not a word processor). At the top of the file is the Video section. You can change the resolution there. Mine looks like this:

 

Thanks!!  Changing the UserCfg file fixed it.  However it was not easy finding it hidden behind piles of oddly-named folders and files.  
The sim now starts in ultrawide mode 1520x1440 automatically without me having to change the graphics settings.    

Before: 

 

 

For some reason none of your images are showing up. Regardless have a 49" also and using native resolution as stated above works well! Now if only had your video card.... getting like 11FPS !!

Ultrawide Monitors chew up bandwidth like nothing else. Any GPU today will struggle with one.