How To Fix the Assassin’s Creed Shadows Ultrawide Issue on PC

Assassin’s Creed Shadows was one of the better PC releases of 2025 and continued to iterate on Ubisoft’s excellent Anvil Engine. The PC version runs great, thanks to a wealth of settings to adjust. That said, there is room for improvement, especially with its ultrawide implementation and cutscene presentation.

That’s where the new patch from Lyall comes in. It adds a lot of fixes, improvements, and quality-of-life features, plus the removal of pillarboxing in cutscenes if you’re playing Assassin’s Creed Shadows at an ultrawide resolution.

Fixing the Assassin’s Creed Shadows Ultrawide Cutscenes Issue

The patch from Lyall does several things that I’ll go over, but if you’re only interested in its ultrawide fixes, then the patch removes pillarboxing from the cutscenes of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. This way, your gameplay sections seamlessly blend with cutscenes, and you won’t have black bars on the sides.

Here is how to install it:

• Make sure Assassin’s Creed Shadows isn’t running
• Head over to the following GitHub link and select the most recent release (0.0.1 as of writing)
• Download the patch file by clicking the ACShadowsFix_v0.0.1.zip under assets
• Extract the zip file in the game’s installation folder.

That’s all you need to do. The next time you launch Assassin’s Creed Shadows, all in-game cutscenes will be rendered without any black bars.

Here is a screenshot of a cutscene provided by Lyall with the patch enabled:

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The fun doesn’t stop there, however, because this patch is loaded with features.

Lyall’s ACShadowsFix Features

In addition to fixing the ultrawide implementation, the patch comes with the following features:

• Skip intro videos: Skips the few logos and splash screens at the launch.
• Extend the in-game FOV slider beyond the in-game available value.
• Disable the framerate cap in cutscenes/FMVs/menus: By default, cutscenes are locked at 31 FPS.
• Enable dynamic cloth physics framerate: By default, this is reduced/disabled in-game.
• Allow cutscene frame generation: Since cutscenes have unlocked the frame rate with the patch, frame generation can be used for an even smoother presentation.
• Disable pillar boxing/letterboxing in cutscenes: This removes the black bars from the cutscenes.

You can enable and disable all these features by editing the ACShadowsFix.ini file using a text editor.

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I set everything to true because all the features are pretty useful.

All credits go to Lyall for creating and testing the patch. Their contributions are incredibly helpful for PC gamers, and you can learn about their work on their Patreon or Ko-fi pages. Keep an eye on the releases page of the patch and update the patch if there are more additions. Lyall is known to add features over time.

If, for whatever reason, you want to remove the patch, simply delete the files that came in the zip file.

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