Trying to understand resolutions

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Originally Posted by erevan

All this information is quite confusing. For those of us who aren't registry competant, is there any way to just "fix" the macro line without dealing with the registry issues? Both my wife and I play, and we have the same complaint, the macros look as if we do have to read across rather than just glance at them.

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Just use the config tool, set your background resolution as the resolution your window will normally be sized at, and the overlay resolution at a size lower then 1000 wide that matches the aspect ratio of what it will normally be sized at. Leave your menu at the default setting of "---" or whatever it says. This is basically what I suggested in my previous comment.

Personally, I have it sized lower then 1000 for reasons other then the macro changes, but it makes the old macro style appear.

yeah...setting the main or menu resolutions BELOW 1024 x <anything> will bring back the old macros. Note that is BELOW 1024, not AT 1024.....when you are on a large widescreen monitor--o m f g. After ~2 yrs at HD resolution on a 23" screen....ewe. It results in the same problem (actually worse)--the macro bar is still about 10 inches long, and runs all the way to right of center---not compacted in the left-hand side like it was before, and you loose a large chunk of your view because EVERYTHING in the UI is much larger also.

Think of it like this:

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
<HP/MP>

vs

<HP/MP>__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

That may seem exaggerated...but that is pretty much the before and after at 1920. It literally is twice as long, if not more because of both the increased width of each button coupled with how it gets bumped over by the HP/MP bars. Lowering the resolution by roughly 1/2 to make it revert to the older style has the same effect--making them roughly twice as wide (not to mention everything else is also roughly twice the size, killing your view of the action).

If your graphics card can handle it set the Background setting to 2x the overlay setting.

e.g. 1280x720 for Overlay and 2560x1440 for Background.

Menu resolution should just be set to the same as Overlay unless you are using some ridiculously high resolution like 1920x1080.


EDIT: Some people here seem to be confused about how menu resolution works. Decreasing menu resolution will make the menus larger, not smaller. If for example you set your Overlay to 1920x1080 and the Menu resolution to 1280x720 the menus will be drawn at 1280x720 and then resized to fit the screen. So they will be larger then if you had set the menu resolution to 1920x1080.


Interesting bug found: If the Menu resolution is set differently from the Overlay resolution then the Background will use the same resolution as the menus on the title screen and character select screen and will change to what you actually selected once you select a character and enter the game.

Strange that FFXI actually has the ability to change resolutions once the game has been launched.