Here is one of those things that consistently appear in computer games that always annoys me: Example Game: Knights of the Old Republic (PC) Scenario: I just got a new video card. Great, I think, I''ll turn up the resolution! 3D portion of the game looks great in this high resolution! Hey, I need to check my inventory... and what do I get? A tiny interface with a border that takes up 80% of the screen. I have to squint or move my face closer to the screen to read it. All the game''s text is also tiny (thank goodness there are voice-overs when NPCs talk). First person shooters are also guilty of this. If I turn up the resolution too high, my HP and ammo counters get crammed into a small space in the corner. If my resolution is low, the counters are huge. So please, when you have 2D portions in your game, scale the textures according to resolution so that they remain the same size on the screen. The textures may not look the greatest when not in their native resolution, but it makes the gameplay much better.

You can resize my window by dragging the corners of it with the mouse, so long as the graphics card says its OK, and the GUI always scales to the largest possible centered square in the window. It was hard to do. Took about 8 lines of code! I was really sweating over that if(height > width) line aswell ... it just felt so wrong

To be fair, most games I''ve played lately have scaled the GUI nicely ... which ones are bothering you?

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Original post by Squirm
To be fair, most games I''ve played lately have scaled the GUI nicely ... which ones are bothering you?

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Mainly KOTOR since that is what I am currently playing, but in the past the Jedi Knight games did this, as well as Half-Life. Diablo 2 did not scale either, but that game only had two resolution options so it wasn''t bad.

Buy a higher resolution monitor then

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Buy a higher resolution monitor then

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Higher resolution moniter does nothing. You need to get a BIGGER moniter. Either way, getting a better moniter is a bad solution.