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TopNotchCrotch Mar 10, 2017 @ 5:12pm
Using steam on new 4k laptop, please help!! (ui scaling)
Recently got a new laptop (HP Omen). First thing I noticed is some steam games have smaller text than on my desktop I've played on. Annoying, but doable. Then I noticed that anything from steam overlay is completely unreadable, microscopic text. I don't use overlay that much so I ignored it.

Just recently purchased Crusader Kings II and now I am forced to deal with the issue. CKII is completely unplayable. I can't read a damn thing anywhere. Adjusting in game resolution can make it more bearable however i have two huge black bars on the sides of my screen. I have tried to play with different resolutions in NVIDIA control panel without success (matching resolutions was unplayable, too small). I tried right clicking Steam.exe and toggling and untoggling "disable display scaling on high DPI settings." which made the problem worse when checked. I have googled the issue only to find people solving it a way that doesn't work for me or people who seemingly still have the issue.

Any help would be EXTREMELY appreciated. I do not have scaling issues anywhere outside of steam games.

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Ogami Mar 10, 2017 @ 5:18pm 
Steam Overlay does not offer any resolution scaling and is not really meant for 4k monitors.
So you will have to live with the small font. For Crusader Kings 2 there exist mods that let you rescale the font/UI ingame.
A lot of games ( especially older) are just not made for 4k monitors and will have really small fonts.
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TopNotchCrotch Mar 10, 2017 @ 5:22pm 
Originally posted by Ogami:
Steam Overlay does not offer any resolution scaling and is not really meant for 4k monitors.
So you will have to live with the small font. For Crusader Kings 2 there exist mods that let you rescale the font/UI ingame.
A lot of games ( especially older) are just not made for 4k monitors and will have really small fonts.

That's very unfortunate to hear. I'll have to look into the mods, but I expect that to be extremely difficult as the CK2 launcher screen is extremely small and unreadable. Not sure if I can even navigate my way to get the mod...
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#fancy Apr 9, 2017 @ 4:59pm 
Try Big Picture Mode. I just hope Valve steps up their game and updates the UI to 4K soon.
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