Sprinting Bug on Ultrawide (5120×1440) – Character Drifting / Wrong Directions

Hi all,

first off: Sprinting feels amazing when it works — huge QoL addition. But on ultrawide monitors (5120×1440) it’s basically unplayable right now.

The issue:

Character often drifts sideways or runs in completely wrong directions when sprinting.

I have to move my mouse into very weird, “off” areas of the screen just to get my character going where I want.

Sometimes it just flips and I end up running somewhere else entirely.

I uploaded a short showing the worst interaction:
https://youtube.com/shorts/fJhr1vznoIw?feature=share

What I tested so far:

On 1920×1280 (windowed) sprinting works perfectly fine → so the feature itself is great.

But I can’t realistically play PoE at 1920×1280 on a 5120×1440 screen — the visibility loss is huge.

Tried a workaround by “locking” mouse area to 16:9 (chatgpt suggestion) — didn’t help.
a known issue so ultrawide players aren’t stuck playing without sprint?

Would love if others with ultrawide setups could comment here as well — more voices = more pressure to get this fixed.

Thanks!

with me that happens too, if you go fullscreen and change the reolution to something 3440 x 1440 it works nicelly but comes with some downsides, a little delay on alt tab and no overlays.

Unfortunatly this was not part of the most recent patch notes and hotfixes. My fear of this wont get fixed in the near future remains, I'm the only one playing in my friend group cause we all have ultra wide monitors and they just dont play since you cant play on it.

Please my ultra wide ppl out there, push this <3

Yeah, seems like they set the "center point" for running off to the left somewhere on ultrawide resolution lol

I assume this will get fixed at some point

Confirmed the center point is set to the left on 5120x1440 and 3840x1080. I'm also fairly sure the same root cause is behind an aiming issue where projectiles go into totally seemingly random directions (no its not the issue where the projectile travels a bit above the ground).

I'm dealing with the same thing. Finally built a new PC that can fully use my 5120x1440 monitor in POE2, and I'm left either unable to use Sprint (no way) or play the game windowed at a smaller resolution. Hugely disappointed. Hopefully this can be fixed.

Wasnt part of 0.3.0c so please guys report this more, I want to play on my entire screen not only a window, breaks completly the immersion!

puuuush

im getting this bug as well when trying to run the game at 5120×1440. while sprinting, my character just runs straight to the right.

the only solution i can come up with for now is to just play the game in windowed, which isn't really that great of a solution but it's all i've got.

hopefully ggg can fix it at some point.

Push GGG please support us ultra-wide andys, this windowed mode gaming breaks the entire immersion.