4K GUI Resolution Scaling

[void]

Hello everyone,

Just a little heads-up, we're aware that at a 4K resolution the user interface is too small and we are currently working on a scaling solution.

[Oberpumpkommando West [OpKW]]

thanks! plz do not forget us WQHD 1440p players:)

[LuvianQ]

Thank god. I'm only playing at 2560x1440p resolution but even then the UI is just too small for me to comfortably look at

[PipFromSlitherine]

To some extent it depends on the screen size - at 40" the text is fine in 4K, but there are also much smaller displays which use 4K, hence the UI scaling solution. A number of us use 4K screens, but they are all large format (I can't really see the utility of a 20" 4K screen, but to each their own :) )

Cheers

Pip

[Busby]

Thanks for getting this sorted!

[rjl518]

i play at 2160

[JDPUK]

I play on the LG 32UD99 4840x2160 4K monitor (32-inch), the game is completely messed up, cna't play in 4K there, are weird overlays all over the screen. I posted in the patch section, and the text is micro sized.

[Shin]

Awesome!

[atunis]

Hi, thats good news !

Playing on 2560x1440p (27-inch) either and its really hard to read for me due to text is so small.

Hope to get some scaling option soon!

Thx a lot!

best Rgs

[Slitherine_Iain]

We hope next week but don't hold us to that. Development is unpredictable...

[Nate]

The encyclopedia window is also too small at high resolution. The text should be bigger and the window should be much taller.

[Appeiron]

Originally posted by void:

Hello everyone,

Just a little heads-up, we're aware that at a 4K resolution the user interface is too small and we are currently working on a scaling solution.

YAY!

[Rok]

The first iteration of this should be done and ready for update tomorrow!

[danman]

Originally posted by PipFromSlitherine:

I can't really see the utility of a 20" 4K screen

Well, 20" are indeed a bit small, but at 24" you get about 183 px/in, so about twice the usual pixel density of screens (96ppi), which allows incrementing the resolution by a whole step, reducing blurring.

The Google Chromebook Pixel has a density of 240ppi, for example. The point is, it's only ever going to get more diverse.

[Slitherine_Iain]

These ridiculous ppi's annoy me. It's a marketing gimick as the eye cannot detect the difference. We'll have to support them but I find the whole idea redundant! Maybe I'm just showing my age 😀

[danman]

Mobile devices can easily have ppi in the hundreds, see https://www.sven.de/dpi/. As a web dev I have to deal with it all the time. You'd be surprised how crappy 96ppi bitmaps look on a 462ppi iPhone X. Either that or tiny, but iOS scales them up so the layout doesn't fall apart. That's because device pixels != CSS pixels. It's ... complicated. :]
Also makes serif fonts viable on small displays.