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Any way to increase font size for high resolutions?

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:37 am
by elkston
Hi.

First of all, congratulations on this release. I installed it without a hitch (from the .exe package), on top of an existing DX installation that incidentally had many mods run under it. I'm sure you guys tested the install under various types of initial DX configs, but I'm just letting you know that my DX directory has been used & abused and everything was flawless in spite of this.

Everything is working fine so far, including the training mission. My only problem is that I run the game at 1920x1200 (widescreen) resolution and the onscreen text is simply too small for my aging eyes. I was hoping the game would "scale" the text fonts and icon graphics like it does in the original DX, but it seems TNM is using a fixed size no matter what.

Is there a config file I could edit to make the text larger? Or will I have to set it to a lower resolution?

P.S. - Really LOVE the intro flyover and music!
P.S. #2 (Wish Treskton had a few more face and racial options).

Again, I want to stress how awesome it is to be playing a brand new DX adventure!!!!

Re: Any way to increase font size for high resolutions?

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:58 am
by sep
Using 640x480 or 800x600 during conversations, the text will sometimes scroll off the bottom of the screen, since the font is too large. Are there any quick fixes for this?

Re: Any way to increase font size for high resolutions?

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:08 am
by EER
The font size issue is caused by the OTP UI fix, else Deus Ex would blow up the entire hud and it would look crazy. But given that resolution, I can understand that you can't read anything ;)

There is a topic around these forums that shows how to install the fix (and thus also how to remove it). I think it might also be an option in the TNM installer(?). I think it is in the TNM.ini somewhere, check for otpUI or something. I'll update this post once I have TNM installed again :)

Re: Any way to increase font size for high resolutions?

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 3:08 pm
by Jonas
I'm not sure this'll work, but try opening TNM.ini in \DeusEx\TNM\System\ and finding the line Root=TNMGUI.tnmRootWindow. Try replacing that line with Root=DeusEx.DeusExRootWindow and see if that fixes it for you.

Re: Any way to increase font size for high resolutions?

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:11 pm
by elkston
Jonas wrote:I'm not sure this'll work, but try opening TNM.ini in \DeusEx\TNM\System\ and finding the line Root=TNMGUI.tnmRootWindow. Try replacing that line with Root=DeusEx.DeusExRootWindow and see if that fixes it for you.
YES. That did it, Jonas. Everything is blown up (scaled) again and my eyes are saved!

Thank you.

Re: Any way to increase font size for high resolutions?

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:15 pm
by Jonas
No problem, we should probably put that in the manual come to think of it. And site FAQ.

Re: Any way to increase font size for high resolutions?

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:06 pm
by elkston
It's not without its caveats, of course. Occasionally the text will run off the screen when there are long discussion blocks (or big lists of replies too, I imagine). Not a big deal, really. I'm just happy to be able to play at monitor's native resolution.

Re: Any way to increase font size for high resolutions?

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:24 pm
by Jonas
We've tried to avoid having big lists of replies, we only ever give you 4 options at a time, which is what Deus Ex did, but once in a while we may have neglected to clear the previous dialogue from the screen first, which will indeed be a problem on low resolutions. By all means report that if it happens, and we can fix it in a patch :)

Re: Any way to increase font size for high resolutions?

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:04 pm
by ZIGS
elkston wrote:
Jonas wrote:I'm not sure this'll work, but try opening TNM.ini in \DeusEx\TNM\System\ and finding the line Root=TNMGUI.tnmRootWindow. Try replacing that line with Root=DeusEx.DeusExRootWindow and see if that fixes it for you.
YES. That did it, Jonas. Everything is blown up (scaled) again and my eyes are saved!

Thank you.
This is awesome, I was having the same problem, had to run the game @ 1024x768, now I can run it @ 1680x1050 without going blind :lol:

Re: Any way to increase font size for high resolutions?

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:22 pm
by JC12
I kind of have the same problem but it was the Vanilla DX too.

I sit about 3ft away from my Monitor with a res of 1440x900 and from this distance the text is just too small or hard to read. Yes I could bring my monitor a bit forward but is there anyway of actually bumping up the text size?

It's increasingly harder to read small white writing in a bright room and such...strains my eyes to read a damn thing sometimes. :mrgreen:

Re: Any way to increase font size for high resolutions?

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:46 pm
by Thehotdogman
sep wrote:Using 640x480 or 800x600 during conversations, the text will sometimes scroll off the bottom of the screen, since the font is too large. Are there any quick fixes for this?
Didn't know if it needed its own thread as its in the vein of the posted problem. I'm having this problem. Would we need to decrease the text size for low resolutions? The worst part is that some decision options are off screen, and that's just messed up, man.

Re: Any way to increase font size for high resolutions?

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:18 pm
by crinkelite
I was hoping to bump up the text size too as I'm really hoping to get stuck in when I get my 32" telly back from being repaired,
low resolutions look pretty bad on the screen but I want to play this using my xbox controller while sitting away from the screen.
I tried the fix posted by jonas but I didn't work.
I'm running this mod on the GOTY version of deus ex. the exact text that jonas said to replace was not there but there was something almost identical. I replaced the line but I had no effect.
anyone got any Ideas?

looks GREAT by the way!

Re: Any way to increase font size for high resolutions?

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:05 am
by JC12
crinkelite wrote:I was hoping to bump up the text size too as I'm really hoping to get stuck in when I get my 32" telly back from being repaired,
low resolutions look pretty bad on the screen but I want to play this using my xbox controller while sitting away from the screen.
I tried the fix posted by jonas but I didn't work.
I'm running this mod on the GOTY version of deus ex. the exact text that jonas said to replace was not there but there was something almost identical. I replaced the line but I had no effect.
anyone got any Ideas?

looks GREAT by the way!
Wait....Deus Ex with an Xbox Controller? :-k

Re: Any way to increase font size for high resolutions?

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:20 am
by Jonas
The thing about switching back to the DX root window is that it scales up and down in increments, so it goes like this:

640x480: Huge GUI
800x600: Normal GUI
1024x768: Small GUI
1280x1024: Huge GUI

Etc. So if you have a very large screen that just happens to be at the end of an interval, you'll get a GUI which may be too small for you to comfortable read. There is no known fix for this, sorry.

Re: Any way to increase font size for high resolutions?

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:56 pm
by DDL
And the otpuifix avoids the rescaling, and thus makes this

640x480: Huge GUI
800x600: Normal GUI
1024x768: Small GUI
1280x1024: Tiny GUI
1920x1200: TIIIIINY GUI

So that'd be why you want it off.

crinkelite: what exactly did you replace in tnm.ini?