PS4 text size

Logging on to early access it seems all my text boxes have shrunk. It's almost impossible to read what people are saying in cutscenes from where I sit and the main menu too has tiny text. Anyone else having this problem/know how to fix it?

All PS4 users are having it. They screwed up PS4's UI when they adjusted the resolution.

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Originally Posted by Krokov

Open a text box and use R3 to adjust the size of it.

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No longer works.

It's fairly annoying. Guess I'll just have to wait for them to fix it, and sit close to the TV in the meantime.

Damnit, I really needed that larger text. I'm considered legally blind.

I can't read the dialogue box without squinting now; and the main menu bar is of a similar issue. As someone with eyesight issues this change is exceptionally unpleasant and I'd very much like an option to adjust it back to the size it was before.

It would be fine if R3 still worked. They desperately need to hotfix it ASAP.

I can't read any of the dialogue. And you can't change the size of dialogue text in the UI settings at all. This needs an urgent fix, can't play through any of the new content without being able to read what NPC's are saying.

It's pretty bad. So far I've been trying to tweak my UI since release. I tried 150% and everything was HUGE.

Temporary solution:
>Go To System Configuration
>User Interface Size: 100%
-This will restore the names to normal size but names only
>Go to Default UI Size and set to: 120%(or whatever you're comfortable with) then select "Apply All"
>Manually resize anything that you want bigger or smaller than 120% by pressing R3. This means every single menu box
>Tweak Hotbars or whatever and done.
>End result should be a somewhat similar screen to your 3.x version but there are drawbacks that can't be fixed right now including:
-Dialogue boxes smaller
-Tooltips smaller and at a different area of the screen.

I hope this helps

Change user interface size and play with default ui size, sort of works but switching to 150% on user size ends up making names hideously large... anyway to change size of names? If not then yeah please fix this soon SE not sure why this got changed...

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Originally Posted by Magic-Mal

It's pretty bad. So far I've been trying to tweak my UI since release. I tried 150% and everything was HUGE.

Temporary solution:
>Go To System Configuration
>User Interface Size: 100%
-This will restore the names to normal size but names only
>Go to Default UI Size and set to: 120%(or whatever you're comfortable with) then select "Apply All"
>Manually resize anything that you want bigger or smaller than 120% by pressing R3. This means every single menu box
>Tweak Hotbars or whatever and done.
>End result should be a somewhat similar screen to your 3.x version but there are drawbacks that can't be fixed right now including:
-Dialogue boxes smaller
-Tooltips smaller and at a different area of the screen.

I hope this helps

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This is pretty much what I've been doing for the past hour and a half. But without being able to fix the dialogue box size, all story content on PS4 is currently unplayable.

Here's a fix for the dialogue boxes.

Enable expanded mouse functionality in the system settings
Find an npc to talk to
Enable virtual mouse with L1 + R3
Move the virtual mouse over the text box and hold R2
Change the scaling to increase the dialog box size

For some reason you can't access the scaling menu without expanded mouse functionality enabled.

You beat me to it. I had just logged on to answer this...but hey, maybe you can help with the second issue plaguing me. The main menu for ants. Have you found a way to sale it up? It was annoying me so much I just switched to the PC main menu, but I really do prefer the PS4 one.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

Here's a fix for the dialogue boxes.

Enable expanded mouse functionality in the system settings
Find an npc to talk to
Enable virtual mouse with L1 + R3
Move the virtual mouse over the text box and hold R2
Change the scaling to increase the dialog box size

For some reason you can't access the scaling menu without expanded mouse functionality enabled.

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THANK YOU FOR THIS.

Was having to strain my eyes even with my glasses on, this was a huge help.

Hopefully they'll be able to fix it for other parts too soon, like the system messages and main menu. Since right now it's really annoying, and the 100/150 toggle option is just terrible. 150 bulges everything out to the point it becomes a ridiculous clutter...

The need to hot fix in text size scaling ASAP. You can't make text tiny like on PC set-ups when you are right up on your screen, verses consoles everyone plays at varying distances from varying TV sizes.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

Here's a fix for the dialogue boxes.

Enable expanded mouse functionality in the system settings
Find an npc to talk to
Enable virtual mouse with L1 + R3
Move the virtual mouse over the text box and hold R2
Change the scaling to increase the dialog box size

For some reason you can't access the scaling menu without expanded mouse functionality enabled.

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You are a godsend! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Hello adventurers!

Apologies for the inconvenience the display settings may have caused you.

The display settings have changed with Stormblood’s Early Access and therefore the UI can look small. You can change the User Interface Size on PS4:

Go to System Configuration -> Display Settings -> User Interface Size 150%

I hope this helps!

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Originally Posted by lakukisu

Hello adventurers!

Apologies for the inconvenience the display settings may have caused you.

The display settings have changed with Stormblood’s Early Access and therefore the UI can look small. You can change the User Interface Size on PS4:

Go to System Configuration -> Display Settings -> User Interface Size 150%

I hope this helps!

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Sorry, as addressed in this very thread, it does not. It makes everything too oversized to the point it isn't even all on screen; the complete opposite spectrum of the issue.

Like I said in the other thread.

This is NOT an issue. This can be fixed by going into Ground Mouse Mode (L1 + R3) with a dialog box open and then move your mouse over the dialog box, hold down R2, then go to Scale Window (have to keep R2 held down) and use L2 to select the size you want (I put it at 120%) and looks good. You can also adjust the position of the dialog box after changing the size using the same steps and clicking on the box and dragging it around.

Can you pass a dialogue text size fix to the devs, similar to the one we have with the regular player chat box, too?

I think that would be useful in general.

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Originally Posted by Krokov

Open a text box and use R3 to adjust the size of it.

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Never worked with NPC text bubble

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Originally Posted by lakukisu

Hello adventurers!

Apologies for the inconvenience the display settings may have caused you.

The display settings have changed with Stormblood’s Early Access and therefore the UI can look small. You can change the User Interface Size on PS4:

Go to System Configuration -> Display Settings -> User Interface Size 150%

I hope this helps!

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This looks far too big though. Is there no chance that you could expand the options for this to include text sizes between 100 and 150?

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Originally Posted by KuraiKiserogeru

Like I said in the other thread.

This is NOT an issue. This can be fixed by going into Ground Mouse Mode (L1 + R3) with a dialog box open and then move your mouse over the dialog box, hold down R2, then go to Scale Window (have to keep R2 held down) and use L2 to select the size you want (I put it at 120%) and looks good. You can also adjust the position of the dialog box after changing the size using the same steps and clicking on the box and dragging it around.

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Only works on dialogue boxes. Every other thing affected by this change can't be adjusted in the same way - 'main menu' for example. Unless there's an unclear way to do so?

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Originally Posted by AstralKaos

Only works on dialogue boxes. Every other thing affected by this change can't be adjusted in the same way - 'main menu' for example. Unless there's an unclear way to do so?

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Main menu isn't as important as text bubles. I can live with a high scaled main menu and character select. Not a tiny chat bubble.

Changing 150% does work if you also change the default UI, lowering your default UI setting to100% and applying all under that setting is about the old default size. HOWEVER this also changes the Display name UI and hover text size, and cant seem to find a way to reduce the size of that alone though, its rather ugly...

The 150% UI resize is nice because I can scale everything on a big screen properly. However..

Doing so makes PC names, NPC names, quest markers, and selectable objects like the summoning bell absurdly large on my screen with no discernable way to scale those down.

My biggest complaint on this is the size of everyone's names.. they are absurdly HUGE! It's either normal name font sizes and microscopic menus or normal menus and enormously huge NPC and character names.

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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheSequel

My biggest complaint on this is the size of everyone's names.. they are absurdly HUGE! It's either normal name font sizes and microscopic menus or normal menus and enormously huge NPC and character names.

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Yes, I need User UI 100% for display names and hover text, but 150% for everything else especially the main menu and npc chat... there really needs to be a way to adjust display names alone...

Same here. Its literally text for ants >.<. I hope they fix this, as of right now I cant really do much at all.

Even with everything at max settings its still too small...these were the same settings I had before but they are at least 3x smaller now even at max settings.

i just manually set my tv for now

I like the change

The menu size is the biggest problem for me. I have difficulty viewing text on a screen at the best of times but at least as it was before it was big enough to read things. Changing the UI setting to 150% doesn't help - as other have said it makes the menu and dialogue readable but the clutter from character and npc names etc is too much.

Can we please have a way to revert the menu back to the size it was before the change, at the very least. This is going to be very difficult to play with and I'm not going wreck my eyesight straining to read such tiny text.

If you have a mouse it's possible to fix the NPC text size!! Right-click on the speech bubble and choose "scale window" -> 140 or 120%!

Doesn't fix the main menu problem, but helps for now.

Do like OP said: Go to System Configuration -> Display Settings -> User Interface Size 150%

But ALSO set Default UI size to 90% and press Apply to all.

Doing so still makes the names and chat bar ridiculously large. SE please fix this ASAP.

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Originally Posted by Clicee

Do like OP said: Go to System Configuration -> Display Settings -> User Interface Size 150%

But ALSO set Default UI size to 90% and press Apply to all.

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I tried this, and it zooms in horribly and names etc are awfully big, it looks terrible.

Names are WAY too big. Had to used the 150% since text and menu with glasses on the struggle was real. after resizing everything name size is a nightmare friends names are huge even my own. i normally play with names off just friends show up. >< even with that talking to friend in game their name was crowding the screen. names even get larger when zoomed out.

The dialogue boxes in this game have always been absurdly tiny with no way (that I know of) to adjust them, which is really odd considering nearly just about every other piece of the UI is adjustable.

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Originally Posted by Fynlar

The dialogue boxes in this game have always been absurdly tiny with no way (that I know of) to adjust them, which is really odd considering nearly just about every other piece of the UI is adjustable.

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I posted above how you can enlarge them, either use USB mouse or enable the touchpad mouse. Right-click on the dialogue box and choose "scale window".

It doesn't help with the menu size, but it makes reading the dialogue text easy.