UI too large, cannot be undone.

[Legally_Blind_Gamer]

So I accidentally set my UI to 300%, and now I cannot change it. I Googled for the answer, and it involves going into the Frontier Developments folder and deleting the config folder. I did this.

Then it says to go into the game.config.xml file and change the scale to 1. But I do not have a game.config.xml file. When I go into my Users folder and search for Coaster, or config.xml, I find:

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A different file name with settings not shown in the example on how to fix. Then I do a search both manually and with Ctrl-F for scale and get:

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I have uninstalled and reinstalled the game and deleted the Frontier Developments folder in My Documents and it just reverts to huge UI again.

Please help!

[Harbinger]

The folder you're looking for is:

%localappdata%\Frontier Developments\Planet Coaster\Config_Local

The file:

Game_local.config.xml

[Metacritical]

i just tested it and yes it 300 does make it very difficult to see. however i managed to get it back to 100 again doing this.

first you need to be in full screen mode and not windowed mode. start game, press the options button. press the left arrow three times if you can't see the tab labels, press return. this should give you the interface settings window. change scaling to something less than 300, and then move the mouse to the bottom right corner of the scaling window and left click. you should be able to see a subtle blue border when you're over the okay box. this should allow you to change settings.

[Legally_Blind_Gamer]

Harbinger's answer was exactly the right solution. Something must have changed with the folder location and file name since the other folks who posted that I found on google searches had the folder in another location and it was game.config.xml, not game_local.config.xml. I should have taken the hint when I found game_remote.config.xml.

Thanks Harbinger!

[Harbinger]

I believe they change the folder location/filename at beta so you may be finding old Alpha era results in your google search.

Glad you resolved the issue.

[Bob Proctor]

hello i see the option but cannot edit it

[Venrymel]

Had this issue, because I was screwing around and didn’t anticipate it would accept me selecting something visible but unusable. Totally my fault. I see it as the game going “really? Okay. I trust you know what you’re doing.” lol

Didn’t get all the answers, here, but I did get a lead on solving this problem without mucking about with directory files.

As Metacritical indicated, you do have some control with your keyboard, even for elementals which cannot fit into the screen.

Solution:
From the main menu, even when there’s a lot that’s too big to get a good look at, the Options icon should still be reachable with a mouse click at the top right of the screen. From within a Park, Esc (or your preferred binding) should also still bring up the menu from which you can select Settings.

Immediately, you can use the arrows to move to a different menu tab and select it by pressing Enter. If you select the wrong menu, just arrow over again and hit Enter again, until the Interface menu is what’s (partially) visible. The window always scrolls, no matter how big or small the text is, relative to the window size, so you should be able to see all the options in this menu.

Leave the mouse alone for a minute, anyway, and just arrow down enough to highlight Text Size and manipulate it as desired. Then, arrow all the way down to Speed Unit. In the worst case, only Cancel, Apply and OK are too far down. Arrow down once from Speed Unit and the option to Cancel, though unseen, is highlighted. Then, arrow right once to highlight Apply, hit Enter, and provided you’ve chosen a suitable new Text Size, you can use the mouse to Confirm the new setting within the 15 seconds you have before it reverts.

EDIT: I realize this thread is quite old, but now it has another answer in it.

[THE.MAC.GOD]

Originally posted by Harbinger:

The folder you're looking for is:

%localappdata%\Frontier Developments\Planet Coaster\Config_Local

The file:

Game_local.config.xml

Thank you!

[Point Estero Studios]

I tried but every time I open the game I'm stuck in the Scenario Screen. HELP

[Point Estero Studios]

Just tried to find the folder but it always says *No Folder with that name*