Hi everyone! Newcomer here to the Endless universe, and am very impressed with the game (and Legend!) so far.

That being said, I've run up against a bit of an issue regarding resolution. I am trying to run the game at 1080p (or the equivalent for my aspect ratio), in order to get sharper text, but the text in ES2 doesn't seem to get sharper at higher resolutions. I've attached two screenshots, both at 1440x900, that show ES2 and EL's text respectively. EL's text is noticeably sharper at this resolution, and gets sharper the higher the resolution chosen, as you'd expect. ES2's text looks equally fuzzy at any resolution, even at the native 2560x1600. I have the game setting set to "fastest", although playing with this setting doesn't seem to fix the issue.

It's not bad, per se, but I was just curious if there was a way I could troubleshoot this. A quick google search heard FXAA might be causing this problem. No other issues with the game except for this.

I'm running this game on a late 2013 MacBook Pro on MacOS 10.15.5. Please let me know if any additional files would help diagnose the issue.

Thanks!

FXAA could very well be the culprit, try disabling it and see if that fixes it.

If it does you may be able to use an alternative anti-aliasing feature from your graphics card rather than in game. If you have an Nvidia graphics card, which I think you do you can go to your Nvidia control panel and find the section "Manage 3D settings". Then switch from 'Global Settings' to 'Program Settings' and select 'Endless Legend'. While there you can enable 'Image Sharpening', as well as 'Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA)', which you may prefer to FXAA.

I don't have a dedicated card on this Mac - I'm running on integrated graphics only. On my PC with a dedicated card this issue does not present itself. Also, I wonder if this is specific to the rendering/font engine for ES2, because EL looks great and works just fine on this Mac.

How do I disable FXAA in Endless Space 2? It seems like there is only the option for overall graphics settings - all settings from "Fastest" to "Beautiful" (or whatever the highest setting is) still result in fuzzy text. 

I'm not actually certain how you can do that if you don't have access to Nvidia control panel. I don't think that there is any setting that controls it, either in game or in a .ini file.

It looks like internal renderer uses rendering resolution lower then screen, as not only text is fuzzy. 

Sublustris, you may be right. Here's what the game - running at 2560x1600 on a 13.3in screen - looks like. It doesn't look like the game is rendering at a higher resolution. 

 

That might be it! I fiddled with custom UI settings, and the higher the UI scale chosen, the better it looks. Unfortunately, at 100% (max) UI scale - which is also what the default "adaptive UI" chooses - it looks like it does above. Lower UI scales, however, result in more blurry text. Is there a way to change the font/icons to circumvent this issue? 

Yeah, the icons look particularly bad as well. This might also explain the discrepancy with EL, since EL uses a pretty unique text (afaik) whilst ES2's font looks like a generic helvetica etc.

Well that doesn't explain why planets (3D graphics) and Art (2D graphics) are pixilated.

Oh strange, I didn't notice that. Seeing how what I suggested help, I still suspect it's regarding scaling.

What should I do from here? It seems like higher UI scaling helps - at least for font and building icons - but I can't get above the highest 100%, which is what it originally was. Not too sure what to do about the resolution and all. It might be a new bug, since they recently updated the game to work better on MacOS catalina, which is what this thing runs.

Thanks for the help guys!