Dropfish wrote:
Who says that? There's only one guy in this thread who doesn't support the OPs suggestion! Seriously, this issue will certainly not make it to the top of their list but let's just try it and let Amplitude decide. I mean, I'm playing on an average 22" monitor with an average resolution of 1680x1050 and the characters are less than 2mm high, so it's certainly not only a problem of a minority!

Wr12Teg wrote:
Agree! This game was released recently and 1920x1200 or 2560x1440 resolutions are common these days so a scaling option of the UI should have been implemented, especially because this game is so much about reading.

BlueTemplar wrote:
I wouldn't call 2% of the users as "common". Of course if this doesn't take too much of the dev time that would have been spent fixing other game problems, then why not add a scaling option?

Wr12Teg wrote:
Always the same "you are a minority" bu****it! IF the game doesn't support high resolution displays (and NO it doesn't) then this should be stated in system requirements for this game!

Always the same "you are a minority" bu****it! IF the game doesn't support high resolution displays (and NO it doesn't) then this should be stated in system requirements for this game!

I run windows in lower resolution and this page doesn't show 2560x1440.

PrEZeX wrote:
Well, I don't support your language but I agree that if there are people with high resolution displays out there and the game developers can't support it (make the game playable without aye strain), then it should be stated in the game requirements especially if the game doesn't have a demo. I bought the Admiral Edition just to find out, that I'm not a supported "minority".



And as an answer to the BlueTemplar; This statistic is not 100% accurate and depends on Windows DPI and resolution settings, eg. I run windows in lower resolution and this page show that resolution and not 2560x1440.

BlueTemplar wrote:
Hey, he's the one that said these resolutions are common! (when they are not)



Sure, adding something like "Work best in resolutions from AxB to CxD" in the system requirements would be a honest thing to do until this is fixed...





Why do you do that? I thought that's what DPI was for? Isn't Windows blurry then?

I just don't see many people doing that... (unless maybe if they have no idea what screen resolution is and how LCD's work)

PrEZeX wrote:
Well, I don't support your language but I agree that if there are people with high resolution displays out there and the game developers can't support it (make the game playable without aye strain), then it should be stated in the game requirements especially if the game doesn't have a demo. I bought the Admiral Edition just to find out, that I'm not a supported "minority".



And as an answer to the BlueTemplar; This statistic is not 100% accurate and depends on Windows DPI and resolution settings, eg. I run windows in lower resolution and this page show that resolution and not 2560x1440.

PrEZeX wrote:
I just bought FTL from Steam and the game with it's menu scales perfectly on my monitor despite it being an indie game. In your face Blizzard...

Dropfish wrote:
Ok, I think this topic is important and popular enough to be shown to the devs. I've contacted the OP the other day but it seems that he left us already month ago (probably died from a major headache attack after playing ES), so I will put it into the "summary of suggestions" thread. Btw, is a poll mandatory for every suggestion, does anyone know?

PrEZeX wrote:
...the general view is that we are a minority and so are our problems.

PrEZeX wrote:
Yeah, maybe people will understand how it feels to play on 2560x1440 when UI is small even at 1680x1050 or 1980x1020...

Dropfish wrote:
Who says that? There's only one guy in this thread who doesn't support the OPs suggestion!

I mean, I'm playing on an average 22" monitor with an average resolution of 1680x1050 and the characters are less than 2mm high, so it's certainly not only the problem of a minority!

BlueTemplar wrote:
Who's that? I think we all agree here that would be a nice feature to have! (I just don't see it happening soon, but maybe I'm wrong...)





Really? I'm going to vote "I would appreciate that" then (I thought to abstain), because I will soon have a computer with exactly the same screen size and resolution...

I use a 50inch 4k TV as my computer monitor and the font size is way too small. I can barely read what's on the screen from about 8-10ft away. If there is an option to increase the font size, it would be greatly appreciated. 

RonaldUS wrote:
Yes, it is THAT bad. I play at 1920 x 1200 (smaller than your res) and have to move closer to the screen to make text just readable, but it's still headache material - very much agree with the OP and all others posting here on this - please Amplitude make the UI size option bigger given how text heavy this game is with all the layered menus.



I have over 200 hundred other games in my Steam collection - only remember this problem once or twice before and I ended up not playing those because of eye strain it caused with text that is too small for a relaxed viewing.



You better wait and see if Amplitude will change this problem.

prezex wrote:
yeah but when i try scaling the game looks awfully blurry. Everything looks so nice and crisp in 2560x1440 and the only problem is the text size.

dropfish wrote:
i definitively have to agree! I'm playing with 1680x1050px on a 22" monitor, so with a rather average setting i'd say and the characters are barely 2mm high! Come on amplitude, we're not falcons with 150% eye-sight! Please please make the text size at least a little adjustable, it would spare me so many headaches!

Dropfish wrote:
I definitively have to agree! I'm playing with 1680x1050px on a 22" monitor, so with a rather average setting I'd say and the characters are barely 2mm high! Come on Amplitude, we're not falcons with 150% eye-sight! Please please make the text size at least a little adjustable, it would spare me so many headaches!

PrEZeX wrote:
Yeah but when I try scaling the game looks awfully blurry. Everything looks so nice and crisp in 2560x1440 and the only problem is the text size.

BlueTemplar wrote:
Did you try scaling to the ratios I told you about?

Note that ES might auto-change to the closest "allowed" ratio instead (look in the ES settings to see what your resolution is set at), so you'd have to make sure first that you limit your available screen space to a (sub)multiple of the resolution ES chose.

I'm not certain how it can be done outside of an OS emulator like VirtualBox, maybe some screens/graphic cards/graphic drivers/third party programs can allow you to do that...

PrEZeX wrote:
Yes, I tried your solution and I also tried other resolutions, screen settings and hardware scaling through GPU, but it's still blurry. Beside the blurriness the game graphics are ugly in low resolutions. The only real solution is UI scaling through the game either automatic or via an option (UI size: small, medium, large).

rafael_zaw wrote:
Is it so bad? I haven't bought the game yet, but I've seen an LP on youtube and I'm very interested. I have an NEC MultiSync PA271W (2560*1440) and have earlier bought some games that I can't play because of badly scaled interfaces.

RonaldUS wrote:
Yes, it is THAT bad. I play at 1920 x 1200 (smaller than your res) and have to move closer to the screen to make text just readable, but it's still headache material - very much agree with the OP and all others posting here on this - please Amplitude make the UI size option bigger given how text heavy this game is with all the layered menus.



I have over 200 hundred other games in my Steam collection - only remember this problem once or twice before and I ended up not playing those because of eye strain it caused with text that is too small for a relaxed viewing.



You better wait and see if Amplitude will change this problem.