Drop Menu & Nav Text are tiny!!
By
Krowseye,
Posted on: 2010-09-17 19:44 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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The higher the resolution you display something on, without also increasing the screen size proportionally, the smaller things will be displayed.|
Originally Posted by Krowseye
I just got this new computer & when I got the game running, I noticed that the UI > Window Scaling was off. Instead of looking normal on 100%, I had to move it up to 125% to get it looking bigger. Then I noticed the drop down menu were you go to log off, was tiny & hard to read. Then the Nav window text is tiny. The nav window itself is right but the mission text is tiny. Chat text is the right size but the menu text isn't. My screen resolution is on Windowed but even at all the other settings ( I tried them all ) the drop menu is the same size. My 3D resolution scaling is on 1680x992. Am I missing something? I looked through all the options to try & fix this but no luck. Please help so I may keep my sanity
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It's not an issue with the game, just an issue with your monitor running as expected.
Say you went from a 15 inch monitor at 1024x768 to one at 1600x1200.
In order for everything to appear the same size you would need a monitor 1.5625 times as big or 23.4375 inches.
Of course, that would make the increased resolution look exactly the same as the lower resolution monitor, just cover a bigger area.
The point of increasing resolution is to increase detail. If you increase the size of a monitor without increasing resolution then you see gaps between pixels a lot easier.
That's why people get bigger and bigger monitors with higher resolutions so they actually gain image quality with a bigger image area.
That's why games have the UI scale sliders and everything has text size options, so you can adjust them to be more visible.
change the screen ui/resolution in the options. that will help you out. it is the top one under graphics settings.
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I don't advise changing your resolution, or the resolution scale slider, to anything other than the monitor's native resolution(usually the max it will display).|
Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint
change the screen ui/resolution in the options. that will help you out. it is the top one under graphics settings.
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Just use the UI scale slider like you did and leave it at 125%.
Honestly, I used to play on a 17 inch screen at 1440x900 with the UI scale at 85%, but my new 23 inch monitor at 1920x1080 has to have it at 100%.
It's natural to have to mess with settings when things change.
I don't think you are understanding my problem. I've been trying to take a screenshot of it so I can show you the text & menu size difference but it won't show the windows, just the backgorund. When my chat window is open, the font size is 12-normal. When I look at the GMOTD, the mission text in the Nav window, & the drop down menus, the font size on them are like 8 or 10, which is very tiny. The drop menu size compared to the rest of the windows is shrunk even when I right click on a player to read their stats. Just to make this clear, my chat window font size is 12 & stays on 12 but the of font sizes on the other windows are still tiny. So changing the font size from the options menu doesn't affect the text from the other windows, only the chat window. I adjusted my Window Scale hoping it would fix it but no luck. It's at 125% now but the problem still isn't fixed. Maybe this cleared it up some & someone will be able to tell me how to fix this thing.
It sounds like exactly what one would expect to happen with a resolution as large as the one you reported in the OP. I don't think there is anything wrong, per se, just that you will have to get used to certain details being smaller.
Also, if you want to take a screen-cap that shows the UI you need to toggle that option on.
To turn that particular toggle on, type: /screenshotui 1
And then, to turn it off, type: /screenshotui 0
Ok I took the pic of the UI to show yall but can't figure out how to get it to post here, so I guess I'll just have to get use to the tiny text 
even though it is really annoying. They really need a forum were you can upload a pic from your computer instead of having to put it on a site first. Oh well. Thanks for all the help.
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Sadly, we can't change the font in any window except the chat tabs.|
Originally Posted by Krowseye
I don't think you are understanding my problem. I've been trying to take a screenshot of it so I can show you the text & menu size difference but it won't show the windows, just the backgorund. When my chat window is open, the font size is 12-normal. When I look at the GMOTD, the mission text in the Nav window, & the drop down menus, the font size on them are like 8 or 10, which is very tiny.
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Just suggest they add an option to increase the size and put up with it until they do. Keep suggesting it every week or two through a petition in game to keep them from forgetting about it.
I just got this new computer & when I got the game running, I noticed that the UI > Window Scaling was off. Instead of looking normal on 100%, I had to move it up to 125% to get it looking bigger. Then I noticed the drop down menu were you go to log off, was tiny & hard to read. Then the Nav window text is tiny. The nav window itself is right but the mission text is tiny. Chat text is the right size but the menu text isn't. My screen resolution is on Windowed but even at all the other settings ( I tried them all ) the drop menu is the same size. My 3D resolution scaling is on 1680x992. Am I missing something? I looked through all the options to try & fix this but no luck. Please help so I may keep my sanity