Risen is a single-player fantasy-themed action role-playing game under development by the German company Piranha Bytes, and published by Deep Silver. Piranha Bytes itself is developing the Windows version, due to be released on October 2, 2009. The Xbox 360 port has been outsourced to an experienced console team under the close supervision of Piranha Bytes, and is due for release sometime "in early 2010".

Post news Report RSS Risen FPS and aspect ratio fix 1.0 released

Risen has been around for over a decade. Computers have become more powerful in the meantime. The game currently has too many FPS, even on integrated graphics. And these are the bugs that occur because of it ..

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People play Risen often without looking in-depth for solutions to these problems they encounter. One can only watch on streaming platforms, how many of them struggle with the problems. To bypass some impassable obstacles, often cheats are used. These are the bugs that occur:

  • The mouse sensitivity is too high on high resolution monitors
  • Loading screen images are stretched because they were prepared for 4:3 monitors
  • The game cannot detect ultra widescreen resolutions, and the interface is stretched on 16:10 monitors
  • The character disappears when climbing ledges

For all these problems comes Risen FPS and aspect ratio fix. It comes with

  • FPS limiter
  • new loading screen images
  • changes values in the INI files to make the game run at any resolution and aspect ratio, like 3:2, 16:10, 16:9, 21:9, 32:9, and lowers the mouse sensitivity

Risen 16:9 before

Risen 16:9 after

Risen 21 9 after 2

Download Risen FPS and aspect ratio fix.

(Risen climbing bug fix, standing mid-air, annoying thunder storm)

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Rukkard
Rukkard

Essential mod in my opinion, fixes compatibility issues with new systems.

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Guest
Guest

I think this mod is running into issues with whatever THQ Nordic just updated the game with, how would I go about uninstalling it to see if that's the case?

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KonradAr Author
KonradAr

I just updated this fix for the official 2023 Patch of Risen. Some components are no longer available if the installer detects the newer version of Risen. Soon there will be a mouse sensitivity option in the game, so I disabled this function also from this fix.
Soon, this fix will only be necessary for owners of ultra-wide monitors.

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Larshelot
Larshelot

This broke the game for me. So forever I was trying to fix the menus being black. It turned out that copying a D3D9.dll to the folder with the exe in it fixed it. but I was trying to get 4k resolutions once I fixed that. so I tried this mod today, and it started making the previous issue happen all over again. I tried reinstalling and then doing your mod fresh without that dll I put. And I saw that you have the Dx9 fix there already in your mod. but something about your mod is making that game not recognize the DX9 dll. I even tried replacing your dll with mine and still, the game ignores the DX9 fix so long as your mod is installed. Do you have a fix for that or any advice? This game is my all-time favorite game and I want to play it again so badly..

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Guest
Guest

cant click three of the five options in the installer

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KonradAr Author
KonradAr

That's expected. I thought they will introduce the mouse sensitivity setting in one of the newest updates that came after 2023, so I disabled it.
And the official 2023 patch also contains updated images for the load screen, so I disabled it as well. They would be incopatible with the patch, because the 2023 patch uses the main menu picture in a different resolution.

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