007 First Light - Ultrawide Cutscene Pillarboxing Fix

007 First Light – Ultrawide Cutscene Patch

Stop the cutscenes from shrinking to 16:9 on your ultrawide display.

What it does

By default, 007 First Light plays its cutscenes locked to 16:9, so on an ultrawide or super-ultrawide monitor you get thick black bars down both sides every time a cinematic kicks in. This mod removes those bars and lets cutscenes fill your screen just like normal gameplay does.

It works automatically every time you launch the game, detecting your resolution and adjusting the cutscene aspect ratio on the fly – nothing to type in. No game files are modified – the fix is applied in memory at runtime, so it's clean and easy to remove.

Features

[]No black bars – cutscenes render at your monitor's aspect ratio.

[]Any ultrawide ratio – 21:9, 32:9, and everything in between.

[]Zero-config – auto-detects your live resolution, even if you change it mid-session. No setup required.

[]Video-cutscene hotkey – a few cinematics are pre-rendered 16:9 videos that can't be widened; a hotkey centers them cleanly, then snaps back to ultrawide afterwards.

[]Keyboard & controller support – trigger that toggle with a keyboard key, an Xbox-style pad (via XInput), or a DualSense (PS5) read natively over HID – the Create button works by default.

[]No file edits – nothing in your game folder is changed, so it's update-friendly and safe.

[]Set and forget – applies itself on every launch.

[]Easy toggle – flip the whole mod off any time without uninstalling.

Requirements

You need an ASI loader to load the mod. The standard choice is Ultimate ASI Loader (download the x64 build).

Installation

[] Install an ASI loader: and use a DLL that the game uses like winhttp.dll (This is confirmed to work with this game and what I use personally) and drop it in the game's Retail folder, next to 007FirstLight.exe.

[]Copy 007FirstLightUltrawide.asi and 007FirstLightUltrawide.ini into that same folder.

[]Launch the game and play a cutscene – it should now fill the screen. That's it; no configuration required.[/]

Pre-rendered (video) cutscenes

The aspect fix widens real-time, engine-rendered cinematics perfectly. A few scenes, though, are pre-rendered video files baked at 16:9 – there are simply no pixels for the ultrawide sides, so stretching them would distort the picture.

For those, press your toggle key/button once when the video starts and it squares up to a clean, centered 16:9 (with side bars) instead of stretching; press it again when the video ends to snap back to ultrawide. The switch is instant, and the toggle only fires while the game window is focused.

Configuration

It works out of the box, but everything is configurable in 007FirstLightUltrawide.ini.

Aspect ratio – leave AspectRatio = auto (the default) to follow your resolution automatically, or force a fixed value:

AspectRatio = auto         ; default: follow the game's live resolution

;AspectRatio = 2. 388889    ; or force an exact ratio (overrides everything)

;Width  = 3440             ; or a fixed resolution (needs both)

;Height = 1440

Common AspectRatio values:

[]2. 388889 – 21:9 (3440×1440)

[]2. 370370 – 21:9 (2560×1080)

[]3. 555556 – 32:9 (3840×1080 / 5120×1440)

Video-cutscene toggle – pick the key/button for the pre-rendered-video toggle (any one works; set a value to 0 to disable that input):

KbdToggleKey          = VK_F10               ; keyboard key

GamepadToggleKey      = XINPUT_GAMEPAD_BACK  ; Xbox-style pad (View/Back button)

DualSenseToggleButton = CREATE               ; DualSense (PS5), read natively over HID

To temporarily disable the whole mod without removing any files, set Enabled = 0 in the section.