Risen in 4K (font too small)

[GAME GOD FLUENT]

Yo.

So, the game works fine for the most part in 4K, but the items laying around, their text is incredibly tiny, as in way too small to even read. Apparently there is something called the Risen Custom Font Installer, but I don't know how the thing works. Has something to do with installing a new font into Risen itself, but how do I install like, a larger font? And I don't mean going from 8 to 10 or whatever, I need it to be about 24 or something. Way larger.

Any ideas?

[GAME GOD FLUENT]

Even in 1080p the text for items in the world is pretty small. But on 4K it's unreadable. Any ideas on this?

[Alienware Gamer ALX]

1080p on 14" was perfect man.

[GAME GOD FLUENT]

On a 14" laptop that's close to your face, sure. On a 55" screen that you sit quite a bit back from, not so much. 1080p is probably playable there, but at 4K the text gets so small it's literally unreadable. I was hoping there's some way to scale that up somehow, as it would be cool to play Risen in 4K with a few graphical enhancements with the Nvidia Control Panel and what not.

[jursky]

I am probably a little bit late here, but I will share my experience with chaning font as well. It's actually pretty easy with that program which was already mentioned here, with the "Risen - Custom Font Installer". You just need to download it, for example from here:
https://www.worldofrisen.de/download_62.htm

You don't even have to install it, just extract the downloaded .rar file using your favorite archiver program (eg. WinRar, 7-zip, total commander, whatever...) and you will get this file:
Custom_Font_Inst.exe

Now go to the "C:\Windows\Fonts", where you will see A LOT of font files (if you are using classic Windows Explorer and you are on Vista/7/8/10 (or newer at the time you are reading this), you will probably see these files in groups - in that case just twice click on them and you will see specific version files for that font (regular, italic, bold, etc.). Every one can be used for Risen, so for example if you want to have italic font in-game, copy italic version of that font you want to use.

I personally recommend to go with the Calibri > "Calibri Bold" font, which is the default font (in regular version of course) for Microsoft Office program such Word, Outlook or PowerPoint for presentations. It's simple, it's bold, it's nicely readable.

Since Calibri Bold in default uses weight of the font at least 600 units, it should be definitely thick enough to read on 4K displays - although I can only presume that, since I personally I am using "only" 1080p@15,6" display, but it's great for me.

So simply select some font file, press Control+C combination to copy it to the clipboard, then navigate to folder where you donwloaded the Risen font changer, paste the font there (press Control+V together), then run the program, select that font file you wish to use (the font you just copied) and press "Install into game". That's it - you should be presented with dialog saying something like "font is already installed", that means that the font was successfully installed into the game. Just quit the font changer program and run Risen.

Enjoy.

[GAME GOD FLUENT]

Thanks!

The thing with 4K, though, is how small the text gets. It gets TINY. Same with Gothic 3 in 4K, which I imagine both are in the same engine made by PB.

Is there a way to not only sharpen the text but increase the size of it? There is a huge difference from 1080p to 4K. The text gets almost 4 times or 2 times smaller.

[Josh]

Naw font is alright...I'm doing 4k on a 28 inch monitor.

[GAME GOD FLUENT]

What? I'm on a 55" inch TV and the font is minuscule. Tell us your secret Vijay!

[Josh]

Originally posted by Fluent:

What? I'm on a 55" inch TV and the font is minuscule. Tell us your secret Vijay!

Maybe cause I'm sitting 2 feet away from my monitor?

[GAME GOD FLUENT]

I'm about 3 feet from a 55 inch and the font is tiny. Too tiny to read.

[Josh]

Also plus I'm using a monitor and not a tv...pixel pitch is way better on a monitor...only small font is when picking up items from plants and enemies but I can still see it just fine.

[GAME GOD FLUENT]

Originally posted by Vijay Naipaul:

Also plus I'm using a monitor and not a tv...pixel pitch is way better on a monitor...only small font is when picking up items from plants and enemies but I can still see it just fine.

Right, it's the items and enemies here, too. But it's so small I end up missing items and can't read what they are. Wanted to do a YouTube series for the game but not like that, so I was hoping the items and enemy/NPC text could be made bigger.

[ZIGS]

Originally posted by GAME GOD FLUENT:

Originally posted by Vijay Naipaul:

Also plus I'm using a monitor and not a tv...pixel pitch is way better on a monitor...only small font is when picking up items from plants and enemies but I can still see it just fine.

Right, it's the items and enemies here, too. But it's so small I end up missing items and can't read what they are. Wanted to do a YouTube series for the game but not like that, so I was hoping the items and enemy/NPC text could be made bigger.

Old topic but I'm having the same issue (playing at 4K on a 24 inch screen) and while I haven't found a way to increase the font size, I just installed the font "Unispace Bold", which is naturally large and readable. It's still not ideal in terms of size but it's much better than the original

[Thorstel]

Had this problem too. I've used Perpetua Titling MT Bold (PERTIBD.ttf) font that is capital letters only. Definitely a big improvement but still borderline https://imgur.com/a/pszdJ6I

Also in case someone doesn't know, you can force MSAA+SGSSAA on the game, and the combination of it with high resolution has better results than just the resolution or just the AA alone, so if you are using supersampling like DLDSR only go up to 4K to avoid making the font even smaller and then spend all the GPU headroom left on higher MSAA and SGSSAA levels. This way you get both the quality and the readable font.

[Octavius]

So no solution? I have the same issue. 4k tv 50 inches.

[ZIGS]

Originally posted by Octavius:

So no solution? I have the same issue. 4k tv 50 inches.

Your best option is the fixes already mentioned, don't expect an official solution at this point