UI Scaled for large 4k TV

[mnemonikos82]

I know from reading posts that other's have encountered similar problems, but I can't find anyone who has found a good solution. I'm playing on a 55" 4k TV after a long long time away and everything is TINY. I can't hardly read anything to even change the settings. I did find a UI that someone custom made that scaled a lot of stuff up, but I'm not a fan of the UI elements itself. And even using this UI and chatfontsize to size 6, it is still pretty darn hard to read without squinting, and I'm sure if I tried to play like this I would have a headache inside of 10 minutes. My only other option is to just play on my Surface, but that's a problem of a different sort.

I'm curious if anyone has found any other custom UI's that work for them on large TV's or settings they can mess with to make things more readable.

Thanks!

[mcoy]

I think Loramin found something in the eqgame.exe windows settings. In the "compatibility" tab click on "change High DPI settings" and mess around with those options.

-Mcoy

[galach]

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[mcoy]

Ah, thanks Galach! I couldn't remember which scaling option it was. Makes sense to do it for everything if the TV is the primary display.

-Mcoy

[Gustoo]

Chatfontsize I can't wait to see if that helps. Do the UI font sizes change or scale or are they fixed at being pretty small?

We really could use a pro walk thru for UI setup on 1080p, "3k", and 4k displays to help people get set up modern style. I haven't played enough with new forced UI to really offer much help but it seems to me to be a major barrier about getting the game going.

[mnemonikos82]

Galach, unfortunately, that's the first thing that I did. The game itself is scaled just fine. I can see characters clearly and even read nameplates. It's the components of the UI that don't scale at all. And changing screen resolution in game just makes the window smaller, it doesn't cause the UI elements to scale any differently.

[Jibartik]

So.

I have been thinking about a 4k UI for eq.

I htink it would take a few weeks tbh.

here's how it woould work:

1. There are AI texture scaling programs, infact, spoiler, someone is using one to update background textures for the whole game, I suspect we'll get that at some point this year!
2. we can use that same AI to scale the UI images to 4k!!! (it takes some art skill to make them 1:1 and its easy to screw up if you get careles, but its really powerful and cool technology that works VERy well!)
3. reformat the UI to use these larger textures & XML (this part is trivial but and time consuming)

Really, it'd be that easy.

So it IS possible to get a classic 4k UI for our current velious UI... I(someone) just need(s) to get off my(their) ass with all this stay at home ordershitwhatamItalkingaboutIhavenoexcuse!

(edit: there is SOME amount of hard coded UI in the spell bar, I had to make custom spell gem holders for our spell gems, because they are scaled somewhere but I forget where that scale is, its not in the spell gem images, its somewhere else but I forget, but other than that we ok)

[Nirgon]

I've won every box so far on 1999 IBM Aptiva

[loramin]

Rustle UI (made by our very own Deezy) has a 4k version:

https://www.eqinterface.com/download...fo.php?id=6829

Unfortunately it still (I think) has a bug, which can sometimes make you crash when you loot your corpse (or do other weird things with bags, because it provides an "all in one" view of your bags, which sometimes annoys Titanium) ... but otherwise it's a truly awesome UI.

[Gustoo]

Are you allowed to use any modified UI's yet on green?