4K Scaling on the Steam Overlay. Seriously, will this ever get fixed?

[sabaton_owns]

Anyone who plays Steam games at 4K will know what I'm know what im on about, but just in case you don't, here a link t a screenshot i took this morning;

http://imgur.com/a/WJTT9

Seriously, do I even have to explain why this is irritating?


4K gaming has been a thing for a while now on PC, and Steam still haven't fixed this. For what is supposed to be the best and most important service a PC gamer and has to use, this is pathetic.



As you may be able to see, I'm playing Tales of Berseria on PC and I'm really quite liking it so far, but I've hit my limit of what I can take on this issue and it's like this on every PC game I own through Steam. I could fix this by running windows at a lower resolution, but the point is I shouldn't have to as it ♥♥♥♥♥ things up for my current display. The thing that triggered me when playing game is Bandai Namco very cleverly runs the game in a border-less window instead of fullscreen, so I can run the game at native 4K with near enough max settings at 60fps without putting undue stress on my GPU. I seriously can't tell the difference between the window and full-screen, the FOV and screen edges look exactly the same either way, so well done dev's that's a nice touch. However, because it's running a window, to get the Steam overlay to be readable, I'd have to peg this game back as well, and I refuse to do so.



The other reason I waited 'till now to vent on this problem is that in truth, it doesn't really hurt me as I've been mostly on single player games with this PC anyway, but there will come a time when I will need this overlay for something and it's basally unusable like this.

Now, Steam are not the only ones gui.ty of this, but shouldn't Steam of all companies be ahead of the curve of this?

Now, if anyone knows a fix for this the I'd be very grateful if you shared it, but the piont is that steam themselves should have fixed this ages ago.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

it is because there arent many people using 4k at this time...

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

3840 x 2160 percent of users with 0.78% the change from last year 0.00%

but this has been suggested many times before. please use the search function to see those threads and join in their discussions.

[sabaton_owns]

I know this been discussed before, and looked through some of threads others posted trying to find a work around or a patch with, of course, no luck. The fact that got them nowhare is ehy i didn't post there, why would i expect to do better?

So you see, my trying to find a fix for this was not the point was not the point of this thread. DPI Scaling for games has been around for a few years now has even been patched into older games. It's not difficult nor expensive. Im faily certain valve have even applied such patching into thier own games, s why not the overlay? Im faily certain even less than 1% of Steams community were happy with the poor quality on greenlight, the endless slew of bad games getting throgh the lack of quality control and thier plan for paid mods, but Valve were/are still ready to press on with those things aren't they?

[Blaze Viper]

4k user here, looked up if a fix was found yet in 2017, floored to find that there still isn't one. FFS Valve.

[nO_d3N1AL]

It's so simple, they just have to make the overlay DPI aware!

[mojoZHU]

Don't know if this will help, but I have been playing games using DSR (Dynamic Super Resolution) and I was annoyed how it scaled my steam overlay to as if it were a 4K. I found out how to fix it, at least for me using a 1920 x 1200 screen running Dark Souls 3 at 3840 x 1200.

I have an nVidia graphics card and in the control panel, I used to have the desktop scaling option disabled. When I enable it and allow my desktop to scale to aspect ratio, it scaled the steam overlay for me!!!

I totally didn't expect it, but it worked. I realise the name of the setting doesn't make it obvious that this might happen, but it worked. I don't have a 4K screen, so I don't know if it works on that, but try it and see. I hope this helps someone.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

I thought the Client update fixed this already...?

Added DPI-based scaling for text and basic UI elements in the in-game overlay

http://store.steampowered.com/news/33500/

[Benny]

For me (Windows 10, 4k DSR downsampling on 1080p display) the solution was:
- set Windows desktop resolution to 4k
- in Windows display settings set scaling to 200%
- set desktop resolution back to 1080p

Windows remebers the scaling setting for each individual resoltion, even ingame, and scales the overlay accordingly. Only downside: the cursor is HUGE now..

[Dionysus 🐭]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

I thought the Client update fixed this already...?

Added DPI-based scaling for text and basic UI elements in the in-game overlay

http://store.steampowered.com/news/33500/

:qr:

Doesn't work.

[DnaK]

Originally posted by Ploebb:

For me (Windows 10, 4k DSR downsampling on 1080p display) the solution was:
- set Windows desktop resolution to 4k
- in Windows display settings set scaling to 200%
- set desktop resolution back to 1080p

Windows remebers the scaling setting for each individual resoltion, even ingame, and scales the overlay accordingly. Only downside: the cursor is HUGE now..

I am from the future, Steam has yet to implement direct scaling options, but I wanted to point out to fellow people searching and finding this thread, this option does indeed work.