Why Beast of Reincarnation Caps at 1080p on a 4K Display
Nobody has published a cause or a working fix, including the developer, who has acknowledged a resolution-reporting bug and nothing beyond it. The two workarounds circulating are untested guesses and are not repeated here as fixes.
Nobody has published a cause and nobody has published a working fix. The developer has acknowledged a resolution-reporting bug, and that is the whole of the official record — the two workarounds circulating, DPI scaling and Windows fullscreen optimisations, are untested guesses that nobody has confirmed.
Where this is being asked · The launch bug megathread on Steam, by players on 4K, 1440p and 5120×1440 displays who find the in-game resolution selector will not offer anything above 1080p. It is one of the loudest clusters in a 187-reply thread.
Evidence
The answer, broken into claims
A grade describes sourcing, not truth. Inferred means we concluded it and the reasoning is shown; unverified means someone asserted it and nobody stands behind it.
CorroboratedThe resolution selector caps at 1080p on higher-resolution displays.
Multiple reporters in the launch bug megathread across 4K, 1440p and 5120×1440 panels, read 2026-08-05.
OfficialThe developer has acknowledged a resolution-reporting bug.
Developer replies in the launch bug megathread. No cause and no workaround was published alongside the acknowledgement.
UnverifiedThe 4K setting exists and works as shipped.
Sam [developer], 3 August 2026 at 7:04pm, disputed by players on the same page of the same thread.
InferredDPI scaling and fullscreen optimisations are guesses, not fixes.
Our position. Both circulate, neither has a posted before-and-after and no second player has confirmed either. Repeating them as fixes would be inventing a solution.
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What players report
The resolution selector caps at 1080p on displays well above it — 4K, 1440p and 5120×1440 are all named in the thread. This is a different complaint from the ultrawide one, though they land in the same place and are often mixed together: ultrawide is an aspect-ratio problem, this is a resolution one, and a player on a 5120×1440 panel is hitting both at once.
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What the developer has said, and what it does not cover
Two things are on the record, and neither is a fix. Sam, posting as a developer on 3 August at 7:04pm, asserted that 4K and subtitle settings exist and work — a claim players in the same thread dispute directly. Separately, the developer has acknowledged a resolution-reporting bug. Read that acknowledgement precisely: a reporting bug is a bug in what the game says about the resolution. It does not by itself explain a selector that will not offer higher modes, and nobody from the team has said whether the two are the same problem or two problems that look alike.
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The guesses, which are not fixes
Two workarounds circulate: changing Windows DPI scaling, and disabling fullscreen optimisations for the executable. Both are untested. Nobody has posted a before-and-after, nobody has said which display or driver they were on, and no second player has confirmed either. They are named here so you recognise them when you meet them repeated as fixes on a site that did not check — not so you try them expecting a result. One thing genuinely does make self-testing harder: the developer has confirmed that the upscaler reverts to AMD FSR1 on every restart, so a display setting that appears to have changed may simply not have survived the relaunch.
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What was checked
The megathread itself, where the reports and the developer replies both sit. The publisher’s Steam news hub, which carries seven posts and neither a patch note nor a known-issues list. The pinned developer Q&A thread, opened 3 August and still at zero replies on 5 August. No guide site publishes a cause, which is unsurprising: neither established wiki covers PC troubleshooting at all.
Expiry condition
What would have to change for this answer to be wrong
An answer about a live-service game without this is an answer with a hidden expiry date.
A patch ships, a developer names the cause, or one player posts a reproducible before-and-after that a second player confirms on different hardware. None of the three exists as of 5 August 2026.
Citations
Every source, with its date
A complaint posted before 30 July 2026 describes the playtest, not the game you bought, and a source whose publication date nobody captured cannot show that it postdates launch either. Both are flagged rather than quietly mixed in.
That players on 4K, 1440p and 5120×1440 displays report the resolution selector capping at 1080p, that a developer has acknowledged a resolution-reporting bug in the thread, and that no confirmed workaround has been posted. The acknowledgement’s page and timestamp were not captured, so it is cited to the thread rather than to a post. Read 2026-08-05.
That Sam [developer], 3 August at 7:04pm, asserted that 4K and subtitle settings exist and work, and that players on the same page dispute it. Cited for the assertion and the dispute, not for the state of the setting.
That Sam [developer], 3 August at 8:13pm, confirmed the upscaler reverting to AMD FSR1 on every restart. Cited here for one reason only: display settings that do not persist make it harder to tell whether a self-tested workaround did anything.
That the publisher has published no patch notes and no known-issues list, so no official cause or workaround exists outside the forum replies. Read 2026-08-05.
Related questions
No published fix exists. The developer has acknowledged a resolution-reporting bug without naming a cause or a workaround.
