Using Alternate Resolutions
Okay, before you do this, please keep in mind that this is unsupported. To do this, navigate to the following directory:
C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Risen3\Config
If you have trouble finding the "AppData" folder, that's because it's a hidden folder in Windows (don't unhide it). You can either turn the viewing of hidden folders and files on in Windows or you can just type the folder path in your address bar and force Windows into the folder. In the config directory, you'll find a file called ConfigUser.xml. Open that file up in Windows Notepad. Near the top of the file, you should see and entry that looks like this:
<Window
Top="0"
Right="1920"
RefreshRate="60"
Left="0"
FullScreen="true"
Bottom="1080"
AdapterNumber="0"
>
</Window>
The entries for Right and Bottom represent the horizontal and vertical resolution you're currently set to. Here you can change the resolution to something else that isn't normally supported in the options presented by the game. Save the file when you're done and exit from Notepad. When you run the game it will now load in the new resolution. If the game doesn't look right, chances are it doesn't want to work with the resolution you've given it. This is unsupported, so you're basically hacking around with the insides of the game engine. Simply shut the game down and put the old resolutions back into the file, save, then check the game loads back up again before trying a new resolution.
This is how a lot of people have been configuring Risen 3 to use ultrawide monitors that operate in the 21:9 aspect ratio that pushes things a lot wider than the 16:9 that most people use. For example, in a typical ultrawide resolution, you would change the Right entry to "2560" and the Bottom entry to "1080". Another example of an even larger resolution would be 3360x1920. That said, this hasn't worked for everyone. Some people have been unable to get the game to run on ultrawide monitors in fullscreen mode. To get around this, people have been switching to windowed mode and maximizing it. This isn't fantastic either though, as the Windows cursor often shows up over top of the game cursor when this is done and that can be pretty annoying.
