Resolution Troubles

So the other day I downloaded the new Mass Effect game, and in order to do so, I had to download the latest Geforce driver (driver version 378.92 with a GTX of 960M). But when I went to play FF14, the UI was all super tiny! I tried changing the resolution over and over and over again, but no matter what I did everything was still really small. Does anyone know how to fix this? I know it's a really petty problem that probably has an easy fix, but I just don't know how to fix it.
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My resolution currently is 3840x2160, 60Hz and my laptop is a Dell XPS 15

In the System Configuration settings, the Display Settings has an option for the High Resolution UI settings. Select one and see how it looks.
For fine tuning you can also change the size scaling of each UI element to a degree. In your HUD layout, select an element you want to configure and press ctrl+home and it'll go through the size options.

Thank you, this really helped! Although, my chat box is still really tiny, and when i try to stretch it out, the text is still itty bitty. Is there a way to fix that, too?

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Thank you, this really helped! Although, my chat box is still really tiny, and when i try to stretch it out, the text is still itty bitty. Is there a way to fix that, too?

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There sure is! It's in one of the settings that lets you resize the chat box space itself so it expands. Additionally, you can resize the font when you're typing in that box before you hit enter. The game is in maintenance so I wasn't able to go in to get the settings. It's there though and I'll followup on this. :)

Thanks, although I think my problem isn't that things got resized. I'm not sure what it is now, but I have this awful input lag in the game now. It used to be very responsive and steering my character was super easy. Now it feels like I'm driving, lugging my character around like they're twice my weight. Plus it takes the game a second to register that I tried to move the camera. Is this a graphics issue? This only just started after the Mass Effect incident.

Make sure your display setting are properly set matching your monitor settings. Also I had t eh same issue and depending on your video card program you can manage the settings for individual games. Or you can just manage your text from the settings menu.

If you've scaled your UI for a high res screen but that chat box (the space where you type a message before hitting enter) is super tiny, here's how to adjust it:

1. Open "Chat Log Settings" (looks like a gear icon can be found on the chat UI)
2. General Tab
3. "Chat Font Prompt Size" -- adjust this to a higher number.

done! :)

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Here's what my graphics card says the resolution is. I changed FF14 to this setting, but I still have the input lag. A friend of mine suggested I reinstall the game entirely, but that may mean me using a VPN again...

Does anyone know how to fix this? I can upload a video to show exactly what's going on with my game.

That screenshot looks like an Intel control panel. Make sure that you're using your Nvidia GPU for the game, not the Intel one. The Nvidia control panel has a place where you can tell it to use "High-performance Nvidia GPU" for ffxiv_dx11.exe. Do you actually have a 4k display or are you using some supersampling shenanigans? Playing at 4k does make the UI tiny if you don't adjust the UI scaling and text size as described by other people in previous posts.

As for the input lag, that could simply be due to low framerate. Try changing the game to the 1920x1080 resolution instead and see what happens. A 960M really isn't built for 4k gaming.

I checked the Nvidia control panel, but all I see are the 3D settings. It says I have a driver version 378.92 with a GTX of 960M, but that was the one I downloaded recently to play Mass Effect. It was what I think caused the game to go all weird in the first place. I thought I rolled back on the version I downloaded to the previous version but maybe not...Even still, I'm willing to work with this version if it gets my game to work again somehow.
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The best thing would be to make sure that both your Intel and Nvidia drivers are up-to-date, and then configure the Nvidia control panel to use "High-performance Nvidia processor" for FFXIV, like I mentioned in my previous post. I've seen cases where the switchable graphics don't work properly unless both drivers are updated.

Then check what your actual screen resolution is - gaming at 4k is tough even for fullsized desktops and really isn't something you want to be doing on a laptop with switchable graphics. At the very least, turn the in-game resolution down to 1920x1080 when you've figured out how to force the game onto the Nvidia GPU through the control panel. Check under "Manage 3D settings", go to the "Program Settings" tab and add ffxiv_dx11.exe and ffxiv.exe to the list, while making sure that they use "High-performance Nvidia processor", like this:

http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/wp-cont...06/NVidia1.jpg

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I did the thing, but the game is still acting strangely. I've also tried resizing the font in the chat, since all the words are so tiny, but even if I put them on the highest setting, they still don't change. I've also checked on my Intel and Nvidia drivers in my device manager, and they are both up to date.

That all looks good. :) Though, make sure that both the DX11 file and the regular one are added, just in case. Not sure which DirectX mode you're using.

At this point, I think you just need to lower the in-game resolution. As I said, you really don't want to be doing 4K gaming on laptop hardware, and your earlier screenshot indicates that you're using the 3840x2160 resolution. The good thing here is that 3840x2160 is exactly four times as large as 1920x1080, so you can just lower the resolution without stuff getting blurry and stretched like they normally do if you don't use the screen's native resolution.

Do you mean change my computer res to 1920x1080? I did that, and then changed the game res to 1920x1080 and everything's running smoothly again. Though it does drastically lower the res of my computer overall, though I guess I could switch back to 3940x2160 when im not on ff14

You can keep your Windows resolution at what it was before, but change FFXIV's ingame resolution to 1920x1080 as long as you're playing in Fullscreen mode:

http://i.imgur.com/HfNoS9I.png

It should have a pretty big performance impact since gaming at 3840x2160 means your GPU literally has to render four times as many pixels for every single frame and calculate effects for all those extra pixels.