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Illegible UI text

February 23, 2016 7:28:30 PM from Galactic Civilizations III ForumsGalactic Civilizations III Forums

With the 1.6 update, almost all text has become nearly unreadable. It looks like a resolution mismatch sort of thing, but none of the options have changed on my end. Increasing the UI size makes it more readable but worse on the eyes, the garbled text merely gets larger.

 

Any idea how I can fix this? I can't play reading scrapcode.

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Reply #1 February 23, 2016 9:36:25 PM
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Options, Graphics, UI Size.

For my monitor I had to set the UI to large initially. For some reason the patch reset it to small, which makes the text almost unreadable.

I use this one, 24 inch widescreen, if it helps anyone.

http://benq.co.uk/product/monitor/gl2450


Also putting in my GPU
https://www.asus.com/uk/Graphics-Cards/R9290DC2OC4GD5/


And my res is currently at
1920 x 1080

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Reply #2 February 23, 2016 9:59:01 PM
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Large UI just makes the text larger, it still looks terrible. It's just easier to read due to feeling like a 6 inch screen touching my nose.

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Reply #3 February 23, 2016 10:02:33 PM
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Quoting exelsis,
reply 2

Large UI just makes the text larger, it still looks terrible. It's just easier to read due to feeling like a 6 inch screen touching my nose.

Sorry misread your initial post thought you had the same issue as me. Just checked though and oddly I had a higher res in game than my desktop, not seen that before. Is it like that for you at all resolutions?

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Reply #4 February 24, 2016 9:42:33 AM
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Can you post a screenshot of what you are seeing?

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Reply #5 February 24, 2016 4:28:51 PM
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I got it readable with large UI and lowering the resolution to far below my native, but now it feels like playing on a phone with how large a lot of the UI components are.

 

This is it moderately borked. http://i.imgur.com/IvNUBii.jpg

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Reply #6 February 24, 2016 4:42:32 PM
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Exelsis, Could repost a likn just zoomed in on the teat area,  very hard to see in your orignal

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Reply #7 March 4, 2016 2:17:51 PM
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Quoting exelsis,
reply 5

I got it readable with large UI and lowering the resolution to far below my native, but now it feels like playing on a phone with how large a lot of the UI components are.

 

This is it moderately borked. http://i.imgur.com/IvNUBii.jpg

Exelsis,

If you go to the windows control panel and look under display, do you have any scaling set?  Here's my panel in windows 8:

http://screencast.com/t/D9ZBJF5sDML

If I set my desktop scale to "medium" I see something similar to your screen shot.  My recommended setting of "smaller" looks fine.  Alternately, you can display the scaling just for galciv3:
http://sd.stardock.com/sean/JingImages/2016-03-04_1424.png

 

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Reply #8 March 4, 2016 5:47:55 PM
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Re-enabling scaling with high DPI under the compatability tab seems to have fixed it.

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