Blurry UI text?!

[Noiseflux]

What is going on here, every other line in the UI is blurry.
I find myself blinking and squinting my eyes constantly, this is a pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥ gaming experience..
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I feel like I need glasses but a few sentences further and everythings sharp again.
Playing on native 2560x1080 resolution but scaling back doesn't help.

November 2021 update - Things I've tried:
Ran everything native resolution: No change
Font Selector - tried a large amount of different fonts and sizes: No change
Windowed mode: No change
Forced 1080p on my graphics card (gtx 1060): No change
UI Resolution 1.1.2 - change UI size, bigger and smaller: No change

[Noiseflux]

Any ideas?

[snowflitzer]

I can read pretty clear but I have to admit I have glasses

[Clunk]

You could try this and maybe find a font which doesn't 'blur' as much, or alter the font size: -

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=412149127

Also, you don't state which OS or system you use, but I'll assume Windows 10. Whichever, there is much about blurred fonts across the interweb if this issue is not specific only to this game - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=windows+blurred+font

[ThisHero]

looks fine to me. are you playing the game at your monitors native resolution?

[Noiseflux]

Publicado originalmente por Clunk:

You could try this and maybe find a font which doesn't 'blur' as much, or alter the font size: -

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=412149127

Also, you don't state which OS or system you use, but I'll assume Windows 10. Whichever, there is much about blurred fonts across the interweb if this issue is not specific only to this game - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=windows+blurred+font

Thanks for the help. I tried the Font Selector but that doesn't seem to do anything, sadly.
I'm indeed on win 10 x64. I've seen a lot of topics but there are no answers or they don't seem to work.
I was hoping there might be so news about this I might have missed.

Publicado originalmente por ThisHero:

looks fine to me. are you playing the game at your monitors native resolution?

Does "an electric car if they own any cars. Cost 2 c /" look as sharp as the line above it to you?
If so, one of us might be going crazy.
I'm playing on 2560x1080, the native resolution of my screen. I tried forcing 1080p on my graphics card but it didn't change anything.

[ThisHero]

Publicado originalmente por Noiseflux:

Does "an electric car if they own any cars. Cost 2 c /" look as sharp as the line above it to you?
If so, one of us might be going crazy.
I'm playing on 2560x1080, the native resolution of my screen. I tried forcing 1080p on my graphics card but it didn't change anything.

I just looked at this on my desktop monitor (4k) and you are right. The first line of text looks fine, but the lower too look ever so slightly fuzzy. I wouldn't call it gamebreaking, but it is something anyone would notice without having to specifically look for it.

From the screenshot you provided it looks like the rest of the elements on screen are portrayed correctly. Where else and how often is this issue appearing?

[Noiseflux]

Publicado originalmente por ThisHero:

Publicado originalmente por Noiseflux:

Does "an electric car if they own any cars. Cost 2 c /" look as sharp as the line above it to you?
If so, one of us might be going crazy.
I'm playing on 2560x1080, the native resolution of my screen. I tried forcing 1080p on my graphics card but it didn't change anything.

I just looked at this on my desktop monitor (4k) and you are right. The first line of text looks fine, but the lower too look ever so slightly fuzzy. I wouldn't call it gamebreaking, but it is something anyone would notice without having to specifically look for it.

From the screenshot you provided it looks like the rest of the elements on screen are portrayed correctly. Where else and how often is this issue appearing?

This is on all text throughout the game and since there is a lot of reading in Cities Skylines it starts to become really annoying really fast. Your eyes try to refocus constantly, it's pretty unplayable for me personally. It looks like there are horizontal lines of blurryness throughout every block of text.

[Avanya]

Keep going through different fonts until you find one that works for you. You should have some which are vector format and will show up without any blur available to you.

[Sherpa]

The issue isn't actually the font - it's that the game renders its UI layer in 1080p instead of the chosen screen resolution. The result is that if you're using a resolution greater than 1080p, the text will look blurry and the UI assets/icons pixelated. Vector fonts aren't going to help here, as they're still going to be rendered out at 1080p and will still be blurry.

I'm just recently returning to the game, so idk if there are better UI scaling mods, but the "UI Resolution" mod has worked pretty well for me. Rendering the UI at your native screen resolution can result in it being too small, and it has a UI scaling feature to offset this (note that the widget appears in the main graphics options, not the mod's options). I bumped it up to 10 or 20%, which is a nice balance between crispness and readability.

Note that I still found some text to have some issues, although the overall situation was much much improved. Font Selector actually is helpful here, as you can increase the font size or choose an alternative font that renders better for you.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2487213155

[Noiseflux]

Publicado originalmente por Sherpa:

The issue isn't actually the font - it's that the game renders its UI layer in 1080p instead of the chosen screen resolution. The result is that if you're using a resolution greater than 1080p, the text will look blurry and the UI assets/icons pixelated. Vector fonts aren't going to help here, as they're still going to be rendered out at 1080p and will still be blurry.

I'm just recently returning to the game, so idk if there are better UI scaling mods, but the "UI Resolution" mod has worked pretty well for me. Rendering the UI at your native screen resolution can result in it being too small, and it has a UI scaling feature to offset this (note that the widget appears in the main graphics options, not the mod's options). I bumped it up to 10 or 20%, which is a nice balance between crispness and readability.

Note that I still found some text to have some issues, although the overall situation was much much improved. Font Selector actually is helpful here, as you can increase the font size or choose an alternative font that renders better for you.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2487213155

Thanks for this, but it didn't help me.
I've tried everything again and there's still lines of blurry text throughout the whole game that make it unplayable for me.

I tried the font selector > different fonts, different sizes, different thickness
I tried the UI resolution > bigger, smaller
I tried windowed mode
I tried 1920x1080 resolution

Just nothing seems to work and this game makes me feel like I have something in my eye the entire time. Apparently it's a very rare problem since Paradox is still pumping out DLC but not fixing this issue.

[Sherpa]

@Noiseflux, have you tried setting the game's resolution to your monitor's native resolution?

[Okami]

i had that problem once. Reinstalled the game.. fix that problem.
The soft fix is change the resolution and say no to keep change or change the font using font UI mod to change the font size.
This only happen when the game is loading into the city.

[abmantis]

I also have this issue on a 3440x1440 display, on Linux. Actually, not only the font but the whole UI is blurry. UI Resolution mod improves the UI, but fonts are still a bit blurry and too small for me.

[knghi89]

Hello there,
For all players who stuck at this blurry UI, I've found a way to fix it. Just set your lauch option by this parameter:"-force-d3d9", that force the game run in DirectX9, and now the blurry has gone!

[Noiseflux]

Publicado originalmente por knghi89:

Hello there,
For all players who stuck at this blurry UI, I've found a way to fix it. Just set your lauch option by this parameter:"-force-d3d9", that force the game run in DirectX9, and now the blurry has gone!

I downloaded the latest graphics drivers for my pc and downloaded cities skylines again and used the: -force-d3d9 launch option but it still made no difference.
Too bad.