display issue (issue solved)

[empr guy]

I recently got a new computer, and the game is really small for some reason, it takes up the whole screen but all the icons and panels and things are like half the size they should be. I have changed the resolution a few times but it doesn't matter, and I don't know how to adjust the size of things. The computers optimal resolution is 1920x1080 if it matters.

[Akar]

Are you running it in windowed or full screen mode? And where did you get your copy of the game from?

[empr guy]

full screen, and from steam

[Akar]

Okay. Find the game in your games list, right click it, properties, local files, verify integrity of game cache. That will revert your copy of the game to the way it was first installed as and will delete any mods/graphics packs you might have installed. If you're still using the 5.1B beta patch you'll also need to revert back to that again.

[empr guy]

there were some files that needed to be restored but it didn't fix the problem, it looks like this btw except the interface is smaller/looks smaller when I'm playing.

[nhytgbvfeco2]

it looks fine to me.

[Akar]

Is that a pic you took? Since it looks fine to me in the screenshot.

[empr guy]

ok how about this then, how do I make everything bigger?

[nhytgbvfeco2]

you dont, that's the normal size.
personally i dont see whats wrong with it

[empr guy]

I don't know why but the screenshot doesn't look like what I see, proportionally when I'm playing the mini map/drop down menu are only 2/3s as big at most.

[nhytgbvfeco2]

how does that even make sense?

[empr guy]

Lets make this easy.

In game, the text is all as if it is size 9 on microsoft word (2007) or smaller, on my old computer it was closer to size 12.

The menues and map modes and things are equally small.

Hence I want to make them bigger.

I am asking for a way to do this.

[Akar]

Is the resolution the same?

[empr guy]

no, I have no idea what the other computers resolution was, but it was less.

[Akar]

It's most likely the resolution then. A higher resolution might make the fonts appear smaller to you.

[empr guy]

yup, I actually still have my old laptop so I did some googling and it has a resolution of ~1300 by ~800, so I changed it to that and it worked perfectly. I have no idea why uping resolution makes everything smaller, but at least I know how to fix it.

[nhytgbvfeco2]

because thats what resolution does..?

[empr guy]

it's ok little mouse, scurry back into your hole in the wall...

[nhytgbvfeco2]

uhh, excuse me?
what resolution does is the higher you make it the smaller pixels are going to be, thus everything will seem smaller.
im trying to be helpful and explain that to you and you basically tell me to gtfo.

[empr guy]

uhh, excuse me?
what resolution does is the higher you make it the smaller pixels are going to be, thus everything will seem smaller.

I was under the impression that although the pixels would be smaller it would just dedicate more pixels to things so they were the same size but clearer.

im trying to be helpful and explain that to you and you basically tell me to gtfo.

well that wasn't my intention, I just ment the problem was solved. And I don't really know anything about computers but you were talking like I did and I should know better.