Game size/resolution incorrect at launch. Selecting monitor fixes this

I’m running into an issue that’s fairly minor, but sufficiently annoying. When I start the game, everything appears to be ever so slightly zoomed in. My XP bar, which normally rests at the bottom of the screen, is no longer visible.

To fix this, I go into the graphics settings and change the monitor selection. There are two options for my primary monitor, one named Primary, and one that displays the model number of my monitor. Switching to whichever is not currently selected fixes the issue.

This is on the retail version of WoW. I use a AW3423DW ultrawide monitor and it is set in Windows to the native resolution. I’ve updated my graphics drivers and confirmed that the same resolution is set in-game and in the Nvidia control panel.

Please let me know if there’s more information I can provide, or if this is covered elsewhere. Thanks in advance!

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Getting the same thing here, almost every time I launch the game. A good 50 pixels on every edge of the screen is cut-off, which (as previously mentioned) is as if the game is slightly zoomed-in.

I discovered that switching to windowed and then back to fullscreen does the trick for me, but it’s definitely annoying.

I’m trying to track down the cause of this for a friend, as I’m not experiencing it. Do you have a different resolution set in your GPU driver software than in game? Or maybe the desktop is different?

Same issue. 5800X with 7900 XTX.

All I managed to find out with the gpu log is that resolution was changed. Changing Windowed (fullscreen) to Windowed back to Window (FS) fixes it.

Tried two monitors, one 24" 1080p and other 34" Ultrawide 3440x1440
At 1920x1080 it resizes to 1720x720
At 3440x1440 it resizes to 2580x1080

I’ve checked in the Nvidia Control Panel and my desktop and both are showing 3440x1440. Not sure if there’s somewhere else that could be setting it.

Similar to Katelynne, changing from Windowed (fullscreen) to Widowed and then back also resolves the issue.

I had this same exact issue upon login this morning. I don’t know what fixed it - I was changing the resolution of my screen back and forth and suddenly everything was fixed and fit for no discernable reason.

Hmm, I don’t think so. More research needed. -.-

Battle.net has config files two places now…not sure how long. There maybe more in the accounts area of wow.

Starting battle.net the config in that install.
Then when you push PLAY… Wow has one in the battle.net directory as well as the toon realm directory.

Also having this issue. Seems to be 50/50 on whether or not it happens when I open the game. Both monitors are 1080p native with Nvidia Control Panel default settings. Running the game in fullscreen windowed mode, 1920x1080 resolution and render scale settings.

I’ve noticed that whenever this happens, a very thin portion of the game window can be seen on the left side of my second monitor (primary display set to the left monitor). It’s acting as if the window was manually stretched/moved by a few centimeters from the bottom right corner?

I’m also experiencing this. I’m using an AMD graphics card.

What seems to have fixed this for me on Windows 10 is disabling a Windows scaling setting. In system settings>display> advanced scaling settings disable “Let Windows try to fix apps so they’re not blurry” if it is enabled. Since disabling this my game has launched at the proper 1440p every time instead of the strange 1421. This seems to have happened to many people around the same time so perhaps some Windows update is to blame. I have no idea if this is a proper solution but it seems to be working for me so I figured I’d mention it.

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