CK2 Menus Super Tiny

[MWRK]

I have been playing ck2 for years now and its one of my favorite games, but I just got a new laptop(which is much better than my last) and for some reason the startup menu as well as the in game buttons are tiny. From what I've found this must be something to do with my screen resolution, but I've tried lowering my resolution to 1920:1080 (which is what I do to get Stellaris working) from 3840:2160 and the menu only gets a little bit bigger. I also tried changing my windows font size, but that just zoomed in and didn't really achieve anything.

Really frustrated I can't play one of my favorite games, if someone knew a fix I would be much obliged.

[jamie]

i am guessing its something to do with zoom in and out problem some people have this problem.

[Klutch]

I think you have to get a mod to fix that

[MWRK]

Any idea what mod or how to fix the zoom issue?

[Varainger]

Originally posted by MWRK:

Any idea what mod or how to fix the zoom issue?

IF the start up menu on 1920x1080 is 'tiny' for you, then mods won't help you and it's a local issue. Mods only change text or window/frame size, not the size of icons or buttons.

[MWRK]

Sorry, the menu is still small for 1920:1280, but it is bigger. How would I go about fixing a local issue? Also, not sure if this helps, when I try to actually run the game itself on anything other than 3840:2160 it creates a window only in the top left of my screen and crashes.

[Varainger]

Originally posted by MWRK:

... Also, not sure if this helps, when I try to actually run the game itself on anything other than 3840:2160 it creates a window only in the top left of my screen and crashes.

Hmm..try this (if it doesn't help, simply undo again):

Change the screen mode in Game Options-Video to Fullscreen or Borderless and check both times if it helps. You have to quit and restart to check it.

If changing to either screen mode doesn't help try this:

Got to the games folder in Steam /steamapps/common/Ck2 and right click ck2game.exe.
Choose Properties, go to the Compatibility tab and check "Disable scaling on high DPI settings".

[MWRK]

Originally posted by Varainger:

Originally posted by MWRK:

... Also, not sure if this helps, when I try to actually run the game itself on anything other than 3840:2160 it creates a window only in the top left of my screen and crashes.

Hmm..try this (if it doesn't help, simply undo again):

Change the screen mode in Game Options-Video to Fullscreen or Borderless and check both times if it helps. You have to quit and restart to check it.

If changing to either screen mode doesn't help try this:

Got to the games folder in Steam /steamapps/common/Ck2 and right click ck2game.exe.
Choose Properties, go to the Compatibility tab and check "Disable scaling on high DPI settings".

Hey, thanks for the comment, but unfortunately neither solutions worked. Nothing happened when I changed the video settings, and when I disabled scaling on high DPI settings the menu went to the normal size, but in game all ui was still small.

Another thing I've forgotten to mention is that the steam overlay is also equally small, but for all games.

[MWRK]

I think I found a solution, though the text in-game is a bit fuzzy.

Basically I had to change my screen setting in-game to fullscreen as opposed to borderless, so that I had the option o changing the in-game resolution settings. I then changed to to 2048:1152. My comps resolution settings also had to be changed to 2048:1152 so that the screens are I guess synced up.

I think ck2 just doesn't adapt well to higher resolutions, which is really annoying, but at least I can play now.