Bandaid for blurry text

[Spectral B4dger]

Don't know if this is still an ongoing issue with players around but after submitting screenshot and log to FB showing the problem with blurry text I've received a quite dissatisying answer from them stating that
"The text provided in your screenshots appears to be displaying as intended, I can't see an obvious blur to the text"
Even though...
https://m.imgur.com/kqDC2p0

So I tried with reshade and by simply enabling the finesharp option the text readability improved a LOT

If you're experiencing this kind of problem give it a try!

EDIT: before/after image as reference > https://imgur.com/a/qodbbJw

[Richard02]

I don't see the problem, tbh.

[Spectral B4dger]

It's a problem when you have different amounts of anti aliasing applied to different parts of text on screen cause that causes eyestrain and if you really do not see the differences between the two ANDs and the CAN in the first screenshot I posted... Well I really wish I had your eyesight!

[Richard02]

Originally posted by Spectral B4dger:

if you really do not see the differences between the two ANDs and the CAN in the first screenshot I posted... Well I really wish I had your eyesight!

I do see there's a difference, i just don't get what's the problem with it, it just makes the outside parts of the letter slightly blurry.

[Dimensional Traveler]

I don't see the difference between the "before" and "after" images. I suspect this issue has to do with what video card and settings you have.

[Skinny Pete]

Originally posted by Spectral B4dger:

Don't know if this is still an ongoing issue with players around but after submitting screenshot and log to FB showing the problem with blurry text I've received a quite dissatisying answer from them stating that
"The text provided in your screenshots appears to be displaying as intended, I can't see an obvious blur to the text"
Even though...
https://m.imgur.com/kqDC2p0

So I tried with reshade and by simply enabling the finesharp option the text readability improved a LOT

If you're experiencing this kind of problem give it a try!

EDIT: before/after image as reference > https://imgur.com/a/qodbbJw

I've seen this in some text but not other text in this game for well over a year, although it seems somewhat less prevalent now. When I see it (like in the first picture), it is the visual equivalent of nails screeching down a blackboard. It is absolutely awful, and I can't stand to look at it.

Trying to read it actually makes my vision blur for about a minute after seeing it.

This has been such a consistently reported item that it is obvious a large percentage of people do have issues with this text.

[Spectral B4dger]

Originally posted by Skinny Pete:

Trying to read it actually makes my vision blur for about a minute after seeing it.

Yeah that's what was happening to me as well... and now, toggling reshade on and off, it's literally night and day

[count_zero]

Originally posted by Spectral B4dger:

"The text provided in your screenshots appears to be displaying as intended, I can't see an obvious blur to the text"

That answer is utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, many people have been complaining about it for months.
I've just dropped this game due to the problem, the diifference between sharp and blurry text is just hurtinh my eyes.

[Spectral B4dger]

Originally posted by count_zero:

Originally posted by Spectral B4dger:

"The text provided in your screenshots appears to be displaying as intended, I can't see an obvious blur to the text"

That answer is utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, many people have been complaining about it for months.
I've just dropped this game due to the problem, the diifference between sharp and blurry text is just hurtinh my eyes.

Yeah, for real. Astounding how they literally closed their eyes on this matter. I also answered back but never got a reply from them. "Case dismissed. Next!"
I wonder if the same thing is happening with Sunless Skies or if they managed to render the text there the way it's supposed to be.

[[SQ]Noname]

For what it's worth, I wrote to them about this issue too, and got a response saying they are looking at it and recommending to increase the UI and font size so it becomes less noticeable.

What are "reshade" and "finesharp" though please?

[Spectral B4dger]

Originally posted by SQNoname:

What are "reshade" and "finesharp" though please?

https://reshade.me
It's a post processing software that allows you to change the look of games that have been injected with. You can add bloom, color-correct, increase/decrease saturation, change contrast, add depth of field, sharpen and much more. some of the the effects take a toll on your fps but for SS you won't notice any difference at all in your frame rate.
Finesharp is one of the filters you can play with and I found out that works nice with text.

[Ichthyic]

I used the text scaling option and added 20% to text size, and I no longer get eyestrain after 2 hours of playing :P

it still blurs out in places, but the bigger size means I don't have to strain to read it so all good.

[jerdnoresuah]

Originally posted by count_zero:

Originally posted by Spectral B4dger:

"The text provided in your screenshots appears to be displaying as intended, I can't see an obvious blur to the text"

That answer is utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, many people have been complaining about it for months.
I've just dropped this game due to the problem, the diifference between sharp and blurry text is just hurtinh my eyes.

Same here. I've been waiting for a fix since release. I can't play that damn game unless it's fixed but apparently it will never happen. They released a new game just now and I would love to play it. Since this dev apparently doesn't care too much about fixing the old game after many years, I'm not gonna buy a new one with a perspective of the same fate.

[Antorius]

Nice work with the Reshade suggestion. Although I did not fiddle with the actual effect settings, I found the degree of sharpness to be as follows, from greatest to least:

1. FineSharp
2. AdaptiveSharpen
3. HighPassSharpen

Unfortunately, these effects likewise -- unacceptably! -- sharpened non-text elements.

For me, AdaptiveSharpen hit the acceptable middle ground, but it's still not what I would want for a nice, long, immersive session. Such a shame! I was starting to really enjoy this game.

Anyway, thanks for the work-around.

[Antorius]

Er...I don't just suppose that this is fixed in Zubmariner? =/

[Antorius]

Well, it's fixed as far as I'm concerned:

Quality: Sublime
Resolution: 2560x1440 (i.e., native)
Window Mode: Fullscreen
Screen Effects: Enabled
UI scale: 2x
Font scale: 1x

Even a UI scale of 1.9 is noticeably less clear. It's a bit of a bummer that the UI elements cover so much of the screen now, and some of the assets (e.g., icons in the action bar) are a bit blurry, but I spend far less time looking at those than at text so I'm a happy camper!