Setting up your UI
 

How are you guys arranging your UI elements? I'd like to see how other people are optimizing their screen to get some ideas for how to set everything up!

About the only thing I optimize is the buff window. I scale it along the top of the screen so it holds exactly 15 buffs--no more, no less--so I can see at a glance how much open buff space I have. Other than that, chat windows are left along the bottom and other windows get stuck in whatever corner/etc I feel like putting them.

Danth

Going with viewport 4:3ish and moving chat/windows to empty space.

I love the way Lulz has it on stream. I’m replicating that.

You people are abominations and should be exterminated.

Thats a really good layout Xallis. I will do the same. Game works more correct at 4:3 and using dead space for all the other windows is winner.

Thanks! Will probably need some tweaking but I'm pretty happy with it. I agree 4:3 makes a pretty big difference, might as well use the rest of your screen for something though!

I can't get too up in arms; that's more or less what the original "periscope view" UI did, although it did it in a much more artsy manner.

That being said, I'm too lazy to bother and simply run P99 in a straight 4:3 resolution instead, accepting that it does not wholly fill my modern monitor. Been playing that way for ten years, works well enough for me.

Danth

Does 4:3 make a difference because you can see more up/down than you can in 16:9?

That is correct. If you want to be obsessive you can go to even narrower ratios and gain even more up-down vision, at the cost of the viewable screen area being quite skinny. A square-ish window probably makes for the best compromise. 16:9 is generally usable, especially for users who favor third person. Ultra-widescreens, wider than that, can cut off so much as to seriously hinder the user.

Danth