Display scaling issues with 1.03h

[Franciscus]

Hi

I have a found a technical issue with patch 1.03h.

I play on a 27 inch monitor with a native resolution of 2560x1440. I use Windows 7. Nevertheless, I find more confortable in general (and also with DC:B) to use a 125% scaling (defined in Windows control panel, display options).

Before 1.03h, the game scaling worked ok.

Now, with latest patch 1.03h, the 125% scaling is not recognized by the game engine, and no (ie 100%) scaling is appllied, making the text unconfortably small to me.

The issue is caused by the new game engine, because I tested reverting back to the 1.03b exe and the 125% scaling is accepted as usual.

Hope my explanation is clear, and hope you guys fix it.

Regards

[zakblood]

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Vic's comments on screen res and how to fix / alter or sort it to suit game

[Franciscus]

Thanks zak, but no solution in that thread

Anyhow, there was no problem to me until latest 1.03h patch

Cheers

[Vic]

Hi there,

Will look into it but might be a few days.

Thing is the old behavior was actually unwanted as the DPI scaling can cause fuzzyiness and minimum resolution to be lower than advertised.

However i'll see if I can find a workaround.

Best wishes,
Vic

[Franciscus]

ORIGINAL: Vic

Hi there,

Will look into it but might be a few days.

Thing is the old behavior was actually unwanted as the DPI scaling can cause fuzzyiness and minimum resolution to be lower than advertised.

However i'll see if I can find a workaround.

Best wishes,
Vic

Thank you, Vic, for looking into this.
I agree that windows display scaling can cause fuzzyiness, although in my monitor 125% looked very good, better overall than native resolution (in windows) for my eyes
Of course the best would be to be possible to choose an in-game resolution and/or windowed mode

Regards

[Vic]

Uploaded v103h3. And the lowRes prefs option to be available at more base resolutions. Give it a try it will for sure make things more readable.

Best wishes,
Vic

[Franciscus]

Thanks Vic, will try it later tonight and will let you know

Regards

[Franciscus]

Hi Vic.

Tried the LowRes Pref, but it is not good at all (looks something like a 200% scaling ?). Unusable to me.

I don't understand why you guys had to "fix" something that IMHO was not broken...
What was wrong with the old way, allowing windows scaling options to affect the game ? Was it causing issues to anyone ?
IMHO, if someone has set the windows scaling options different than the default 100%, it is because they want it so, and are confortable with it (that was/is my case)

Regards

[Vic]

Hi Fransiscus,

Well its a BETA version.

The reason for the change was mainly that things looked too fuzzy and ugly on Win10 which has a different implementation of DPI settings.

Rest assured I take note of your misgivings with the changes. I think I can give the user more control over the Low.Res option and allow him to finetune it to get to a desired level.

Best wishes,
Vic

[Franciscus]

Hi Vic

Thank you. I know it is a beta, that is why I am using it and giving feedback (and enjoying tremendously your game, too

Regards