GUI scaling for high dpi screens

[TRIP]

👉UPDATE: Paradox patched in a GUI scaling option. It's still a work in progress but most, if not all menus are working fine now. 👈


Thank you Parodox for hearing our prayers!


There is one mod pack that greatly enhances the experience for upscaled UI


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1623423360

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Original post:

For everyone who needs to scale their GUI here's a little trick.

1. Goto C:\Users\YourUsername\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris and open the settings.txt

For Linux users the file is located in
/home/<yourloginname>/.local/share/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris

2. Now change the line "gui_scale" to anything you want. Got it at 1.500000 right now on a 2560x1440 resolution.


There are some issuses coming with it but it's still playable:

- A lot of graphics on the empire creation screens are not in the correct location (planets for planet preferences, ships for ship type prefefence etc.)

- The context menu shifts to the far right from where you click.

- A small number of tool tips are off screen

I created some mods that will fix the main menu and context menu. They are not nearly perfect but it's at least better playable for now.

You can find them here:

(Removed cause of ingame UI scaling option added by paradox afterwards. If you still want them, just send me a message.)

1440p version
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=683833264
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=683122343

4k version
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=683848621
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=683122722

[Smer-Gol]

Thanks a lot for this :)

[Comrade Suhov]

Sticky this!

[-=Sentor=-]

thx now i can play this @ my 8K native res :D

[Drowningfly]

Works perfectly. Thanks!

[Drowningfly]

There is also a problem with the right click menu appearing far to the right of where you click on the screen. Sometimes the right click menu will appear off the edge of the screen.

[SALZHERZ]

Thank you for this help. Nevertheless, we need a scalable UI for sure.
Cant see anything as old grumpy gamer with 53.
Hope for help.

[Evil^Space^King]

Thank you

[Panzer Juice]

Thank you for this. After this being such an issue in CK2 I would have hoped Paradox learned by now.

[MurrMachine]

Came to the forums to ask about this thanks

[walkerinthemist]

Thanks for the heads up and info.

[walkerinthemist]

The font size is now good, a couple of side effects I observed:
- A number of tool tips went off screen
- A lot of graphics on the empire creation screens were not in the correct location (planets for planet preferences, ships for ship type prefefence etc.)

Running at 2k 16:9 w/ 1.4 GUI scaling.

Hopefully Paradox can work out a fix for this and put it in all of their games.

[Cryoned]

Paradox is not gonna fix this as they didn't fix it on any other game.

Also they said on the official forums that they made the fonts and UI bigger for stellaris but they will not support official scaling nor they will add it to the engine in the future.

So, if something is broken with this, be aware that broken will be in 2 years and that they are not gonna fix the UI scale problem it for stellaris or HoI 4.

[Scott McG]

Rather short-sighted of the developer. I know 21:9 is not the norm, but more and more people are running at high res. I am at 3440x1440 and have a hard time playing some older titles, like Europa Universalis. I was really hoping they would have native support for this resolution as most new titles do.

[Leozaur]

And here I was about to go on a rant yet again. :) Thanks a lot! And I see why it wasn't included in options, probably decided to leave background fix for later. EDIT: ah, and context menu shift. Still much better than having to sit really close or set half the native resolution :)

[Tanaka]

Awesome thank you!!!