Dialogue Box Suggestion

Forgive me if I'm posting in the wrong spot. After searching the forum and FAQs for a while, this was the location I believed most suitable.

I recently switched from PC to PS4 in anticipation for Stormblood. At that point, I already finished the main story quests, so when I discovered NPC text boxes were much smaller on the PS4, it didn't bother me too much.

However, when early access began and I became interested in the story again, I found myself skipping dialogue that wasn't voiced fairly often. Because unless I moved much closer to the tv, it was simply too difficult to read comfortably.

I'm hoping for a future update in which NPC dialogue boxes can also get a scale of increase, either in HUD or display. It's nice to see it available for the user chatbox and various other items, but the oversight for NPC dialogue, especially considering story quest, is giving me eye strain.

Thanks in advance. Apologies again if this is in the wrong spot.

Have you tried /systemconfig → Display Settings → High Resolution UI Settings ?

Before adjusting the setting, save your /hudlayout to another slot in case you find you don't like the result. If you change your hi res setting back to the original setting, it'll leave all your hud elements in the new positions and you'll have to restore the layout from the other save slot.

When Stormblood came out, SE made some changes (apparently rather significant ones by the sound of it) to the PS4 display in order to support High Definition from a PS4 Pro. Those changes had an unintended side effect of drastically shrinking the dialog window and main menu. They're working to fix it, but there are a couple workarounds you can use in the meantime.

Alternative 1:
You can go into System Configuration, change "User Interface Size" to 150%, then set "Default UI Size" something more reasonable, like 100% and click "Apply All".

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/a...6&d=1497637031

If you go this route, it's a good idea, as Rongway mentioned, to save your previous HUD layout using a secondary HUD slot.

Downsides to this alternative: Other things you cannot resize through HUD Layout are increased to 150% their normal size, most notably the nameplates above characters/creatures heads. And if you'd personalized your HUD, it might need some rearranging to get things back where you want them.

Alternative 2:
You can resize the dialog box by itself, though only for the current login session, by right-clicking it, and selecting "Scale Window" and a percentage. The controller can be set to act as a mouse for this purpose.

Here's an excessively detailed description of how to change the PS4 dialog box size with a controller:

1. Go to an NPC and initiate dialog.
2. Press L1+R3 to turn on "mouse mode".
3. Use the right analog stick to move the mouse cursor over the dialog box.
4. Press and hold R2 (keeping it held down until step 10). This should bring up a context menu.
5. Using the right analog stick, put the mouse cursor over the "Scale Window" option of the context menu (if it isn't there already).
6. Press L2 to bring up a second menu of available sizes.
7. Use the right analog stick to move the cursor over the size you want. (140% will put it back where it had been before Stormblood.)
8. Press L2 to select and change the size.
9. If you're interested in what the NPC is saying, read it now because the next step will advance the dialog.
10. Here's where you can finally release R2. The dialog will advance.
11. Press L1+R3 to turn "mouse mode" back off.

Downsides to this alternative: It has to be repeated each time you login, because it's not saved between sessions. And the main menu remains really small.


A couple posts from SE about this issue:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4203027
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...81#post4225281