Thread: 4.1 npc text scaling

What about the fix added in 4.01?
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Display Settings

The option "Enlarge system UI" has been added under "User Interface Size."
This setting is only available when User Interface Size is set to 100%.
Enabling this setting will allow players to restore the size of UI elements such as the main menu and chat log window to that of patch 3.57.
Restoring UI elements to patch 3.57 sizes.

1. Under User Interface Size select 100% and check the box Enlarge System UI.
2. Under Default UI Size set Default Size to 140% and apply changes to all UI components.


https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...691b3fadfb35e5
It's posted with pictures here in the patch notes, but it's a quirk with the resolution changes that came with Stormblood.

Originally Posted by Ametrine

What about the fix added in 4.01?

I believe this is just for PS4 players. I cannot say if this was removed for PS4 players or not. But what I can say as a PC player, and as the OP has stated, that we can no longer change the UI scaling for the NPC Dialogue Box. You used to be able to right-click the box, and while holding down right-click, left-click the options to scale to a difference percentage (and I believe this was the same for PS4 with the virtual mouse mode). Now when you right-click the box, nothing happens.

What I propose is that the devs add the dialogue box to the HUD layout menu to be tweaked in there, along with everything else HUD related, and call it a day

If they think it's working as intended then they clearly either don't know how it worked before or don't know how it's working now. I set my UI to 150% and scaled down everything to where I wanted it. Text in the dialog boxes is still tiny. Before you could right click them and scale it up to 140% manually, which made it nice and huge for sitting back away from the TV. Now no matter what setting you choose it's either tiny or slightly less tiny, but the text size itself never gets to that big 140% level.

My wife is legally blind, but close to 20/20 with corrective lenses. Before they removed it, she could play just fine. Now she can barely do an hour's worth of questing before getting a headache from trying to read the text.

I really hope they do something about this soon. She's enjoying the game and would love to play more.

That enlarges everything to enormous, and also something changed in sys config affects every character on the account, which is then unfair to my husband with perfectly fine vision. All other components of the UI can be resized individually, as did the chat bubble until this morning.

Originally Posted by Felis

I don't know if that is also on PC, but "Enlarge system UI" only enlarge the NPC text and the cross-menu, without touching the other settings

The problem is that is also blows up the names of characters/npcs/minions/etc, so your screen is a clustermess of humongous names. Then your only option is to hide all the names. I'd really like to not have to do that just to be able to read the dialogues. There was no reason to take away the individual resizing of the chat text...

Originally Posted by Felis

I don't know if that is also on PC, but "Enlarge system UI" only enlarge the NPC text and the cross-menu, without touching the other settings

PC version doesn't have that.

Originally Posted by aesteval

PC version doesn't have that.

It barely helps on PS4. It was bigger before the patch on both plattforms.

Ah, okay. I didn't realize it was an exclusive a PS4 thing as the process on consoles repaired the text size issues we were having.

The way OP describe it sounded like a dead ringer to what I saw before the fix as my personal solution before 4.1 was to enlarge other UI elements manually and do the single chat text trick, since the text chat remained seperate.

Since so many other UI elements have been broken up and the UI can be even larger, is it possible NPC text is just really buried now? Otherwise, the option may have been lost in the shuffle.