Is EU4 ever getting proper UI scaling?

[dek55]

We are nearing 2021. Patch after patch, DLC after DLC, and we still don't have UI scaling. It seems nobody even talks aboit this anymore. Meanwhile, many players who are bothered about this are forced to play with lower resolutions.
Visually not a pretty sight playing 8 years old game on 1680x1050. After playing IR and CK3, coming back to EU4 seems troublesome. I know graphics are of secondary importance for grand strategy game, but still...

What do you think? Will we ever get it? Or perhaps it really is a huge task to implement for a game this old?

 

[atwix]

1. Go to 'documents/paradox interactive/eu4' then look for the gui_scale option. increase it as you please. Text does get bit blurry, but it can be fine with a good font mod.

I altered it from 1 to 3 (gui_scale=3.000000 in settings.txt, the file is in documents/paradox interactive/eu4)

this is result, on 4608x2880 resolution. I even played it on a 50+ inch ultra HD TV like this, messing with the setting and a font mod. and this campaign was from patch 1.17 from years ago.... You could do this trick since patch 1.01 I think.

2. If you are on windows, you can also active the windows UI scaling. Some people have reported that this looks better. To do that right click on eu4.exe, select Properties, select the Compatibility tab and then check "Override high DPI scaling behavior" and try the different values in the select box below .

I know its not on topic, but saying "many players who are bothered by this are forced to play on lower resolutions" just isn't correct.


And didn't they add an option for this ingame also?

 

[Darth.]

And didn't they add an option for this ingame also?

Yes.

I know its not on topic, but saying "many players who are bothered by this are forced to play on lower resolutions" just isn't correct.

Also this. There are ironman-compatible UI and font mods for 4K

 

[dek55]

That is not proper UI scaling. Those are all half solutions. I know about ingame("experimental") option which basically does the same as changing gui scale in settings.txt.
There are also mods that help but don't solve the whole issue.

But if you pay hundreds of euros for a single game, I think it's reasonable to expect proper UI scaling. If they can't do it because of EU4 tehnical limitations, they should tell us openly and don't promise something they can't deliver.

 

[Drmcdevitt]

It was working perfectly on Mac a couple years ago but then they messed it up somehow. The map seems to scale fine for whatever reason the font does not. You can play in hi res though on a 4k screen but you have to do 2.0X scaling which means you're stuck at 1080p looking screen just in hi res. I play on my 15 inch laptop in 4k with the scaling doubled to 2.0 and it looks great. Any scale other than 2.0 and the text looks like crap.

 

[EarlKonrad]

We are nearing 2021. Patch after patch, DLC after DLC, and we still don't have UI scaling. It seems nobody even talks aboit this anymore. Meanwhile, many players who are bothered about this are forced to play with lower resolutions.
Visually not a pretty sight playing 8 years old game on 1680x1050. After playing IR and CK3, coming back to EU4 seems troublesome. I know graphics are of secondary importance for grand strategy game, but still...

What do you think? Will we ever get it? Or perhaps it really is a huge task to implement for a game this old?

Would be good to but at this point who knows?

I'll say it again. Emperor also broke parts of the UI for those that play on 1360x768 (one the resultations that are supposedly supported by the game by the way) and made most diplomatic actions that are UI based more cumbersome than they have any right to be.

And I don't expect this to be resolved any time soon, if ever.

 

[Apocalypto86]

That is not proper UI scaling. Those are all half solutions. I know about ingame("experimental") option which basically does the same as changing gui scale in settings.txt.
There are also mods that help but don't solve the whole issue.

But if you pay hundreds of euros for a single game, I think it's reasonable to expect proper UI scaling. If they can't do it because of EU4 tehnical limitations, they should tell us openly and don't promise something they can't deliver.

I second that!
and in addition to that.. why the heck can't I run the game in borderless window mode with a different rez?

Now everytime before playing eu4 I need to change my windows rez from 1920x1080p to 1600x900p in order to be able to properly alt+tab..