Don’t Starve Together – Guide to Resolution Fixes and FOV Changes

Since there aren’t any guides about fixing the cropping issue with game resolution (scaling), I’m creating one. This guide includes the normal resolution settings in the .ini file to make a complete guide for fixing your resolution.

I’m also including information on how to change your FOV (field of view). This should help you adjust all your important display settings in one place.

How to Fix Resolution and Change FOV

Basic change of graphic properties in the .ini file

If you are unable to change it in the game you can use the configuration file. You just need to modify the .ini file.

• Go to “Documents\Klei\DoNotStarveTogether\<user-id>\client.ini”
• Open the “client.ini” file in notepad or notepad++
• This is the section you will need to find:

[Graphics]
fullscreen_width = *hereX*
fullscreen_height = *hereY*
display_id = 0
refresh_rate = 60
fullscreen = true (this needs to be true if you want to play fullscreen)
use_small_textures = false
screenshake = true
bloom = true
distortion = true
HUDSize = 5
screenflash = 1

• Change settings depending on your display.
• Don’t forget to save when you are done (hit ctrl-s).

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Resolution zoomed in fix

If your FPS counter is shifted to the right, or etc. that means your game is zoomed, we have to blame windows 10 for it, but we can fix it…

Example

1. Go to:
   • C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Don’t Starve Together\bin64″
   • Or where you installed Don’t Starve Together
   • Or (in “C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Don’t Starve Together\bin” if you are playing on !32 bits version!)
2. Right-click on “dontstarve_steam_x64.exe” or (“dontstarve_steam.exe” for 32 bits)
3. Click on Properties
4. Go in the compatibility tab
5. Tick “Disable fullscreen optimizations”
6. Furthermore you can go to “change high DPI settings” and tick both checkboxes
7. Apply and hit OK

Pictures with steps

Changing FOV

This might be a little more complicated since we are going to open a .lua file so Notepad++ would make things easier…

• Go to
  “C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Don’tStarveTogether\data\databundles\scripts\cameras” or where you installed DST
• Open “followcamera.lua” with either notepad or notepad++ (by selecting which app if it’s the first time)
• Hit Ctrl-F, this lets you search text and type “self.fov”, then hit enter.

• Change the value to whatever you want.
• Save (Ctrl-S).

Disclaimer: Since this file resides in a .zip you should extract it first, then modify, rezipping and pasting it in “C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Don’t Starve Together\data\databundles”