Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback UI scaling and font size

Hello. I am playing at PC version but on 55 inch TV instead of monitor and it would be really useful feature to change UI scaling or at least font size. Because its almost impossible to read the text.
Simple test - Just try to start to play at TV and sit on the sofa in 2m.
Would be there any feature to change font size or scale it?

Thank you.

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Please consider ui scaling or font changing capability for big screen users and people with vision troubles. Absolutely love this game but the eye strain caused by the font and ui scale is only bearable for an hour or so

I play on 1920x1080 on a 27" screen and the UI buttons are tiny. The little arrows to flip quick bar pages are so small you need a microscope to operate them.

Any news about UI or at least text scaling? Is it planned or we can lose hope about that? I saw a lot of people playing on TV connected as monitor and got the same issue.
May be someone knows what is possible to modify, like it was in DOS2 (some lines in config file to modify UI scaling)?

I am facing the same issue. BG3 is unplayable for me due to eye-strain headaches.

This could be solved when controller support is added, assuming the UI and font would be scaled up (as they were in DOS and DOS2). Any word on when controller support might be added? I'm hoping not to miss all of Early Access.

As for a font mod, unfortunately the mod solution for DOS and DOS2 does not work for BG3: replacing the original font files with other font files that are renamed with the original names. Dear Larian, perhaps if you could make this solution work for us, we could make our own mod and take the problem off your hands.

The only solution I've found is manually increasing the font size -- editing each of the font files -- using Font Forge (as described here for DOS2). One limitation of this solution is that it can't be shared as a mod.

Same issue here. Please add this functionality because the current text & interface size is waay too small for my laptop's screen.

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Why is there so little support for this topic?

In the photo 43" monitor and a text are distinguishable only from a VERY close distance)

I ask all the guys with poor eyesight to hold this thread!

Can't play the game because of the small font size. I have poor eyesight and I can’t read the dialogues normally, and in the combat log the font is too small, I literally had to look through a magnifying glass what was written there. Sorry for g translate.

There is actually a mod for that if you don't want to wait for them to fix it.

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I also find the UI and text too small. Also I consider the choice of font to be not the best, to put it mildly. Its really hard on my eye (i'm oneeyed)

I guess they could do that as the same time of this thread concerning UI

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yes, I also have the request here that you incorporate this so that you can make the ui bigger

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UI gets worst when you lower resolution to get better performance.
https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=760610#Post760610

Is there? Could you share a link? I haven’t been able to find a font mod that works.

I’m eagerly waiting for just such a mod, and/or controller support that will scale up the UI, so that I can finally play BG3.

UI Scaling and font size seem pretty basic. Please, Larian, include them in a future update. BTW, the game is great!

Dear Larian Studio,
Could You please add functionality of scaling fonts/UI in full version?
Any comment on that from know-person?


Best Regards

My monitor is Dell UP3218K (7680×4320), however, even if I use RTX3090, the game can't reach 30 fps at native resolution. I could only reduce the resolution to 3840×2160. At this point the game UI becomes blurred. In many other games, I can modify resolution scale to get a clear UI and smooth game experience. Could you please add resolution scaling function?

In ten months of EA we never had a direct comment about anything that was written here.
I don't even think we ever had a single developer posting at any point, in fact.

I wouldn't expect them to start commenting now.

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And maybe they could change the font as currently at 2560x1440 and all graphics maxed the text is not as clear as in DOS2 for example. Makes reading of the descriptions of spells a big pain in the @ss. Makes me not want to play it, alas...

Playing at 1440p and font seems just fine (27 inch LCD). But font scale is a basic option, the devs have to add that eventually...

They added the scaling of font for the dialogue and such, plus background for dialogue, which is cool.

Now I am waiting for the UI scaling as such, as tooltips are too small, not to mention that the font choice is rather a big mistake - font aint as clear as could be. So bigger UI, bigger font for the item/spell/action description boxes. That is what we need. Otherwise - hell yeah

Thank you so much, Larian, for hearing us and adding the font size and background option for dialogue. It really helps dialogue.

I myself still would need UI scaling (ideally through controller support, which as excellent in DOS1 & 2).

And the ability to mod the font by replacing the font files with other font files would help players like me — as is possible with DOS1 and 2. (As of Patch 6, when I try the DOS2 font mod method on BG3, all the text shows up blank.)

Well, It must be hard. There are not even mods out there for UI changes.

I am hoping for a versatile UI with more action bars etc. They way it is now it crappy. And not only because of the size.

Any news on that issue, Larian? Please do something about it...

Or add something like in-game zoom function that you can use just like in windows. The one in windows doesnt work, alas, with BG3...

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Give us the ability to manage text size for sure but the whole UI system is clunky and limiting. For one please give us as many quickslots as can fit at the bottom of the screen, design should follow function not the other way around. As characters progress there will be more spells, abilities, and other equipment that we are going to want to put in those slots and already aren't enough for 4th characters. Sure you can use the roll overs and those are useful but not ideal.

Man it's quite disheartening to read this thread and see not much change on this particular UI issue over time. I just bought the game, super excited...but my eyes are bleeding even at the character creator! Larian, *please* tell me you are working on UI-scaling for the launch window!? I'm really going to have to refund otherwise

Agree. I bought the EA a while ago but then returned it on Steam within the return window, just because it was too much of an eye strain for me. Now that we're closer to launch, I bought the EA again and the accessibility/UI/fonts/readability hasn't improved at all. So I guess that I'll just have to deal with the strain and headaches, if I want to play. I'm just hoping the PS5 version has more accessibility options, if not then that's going to be even worse with only using a controller.

I just posted the same issue. August 16, 2023, it's still hard to read. I'm even playing on a 32" monitor.

Bookman font instead of times for readability. It's a little wider than times, but designed for readability. Times was designed for its ability to cram lots of information onto a newspaper page. Bookman was designed for ultimate readability in a serif font. Serifs help.

Two years later after my first post, the issue is still here. Most item descriptions have a tiny font size.

It is too tiny, on my 22" monitor. Surely you cannot just scale the dialogue options?!

Also the item pictures on examine seem all over the place, some at the bottom of the picture, some at the top, some upright and some flat. Looks so weird,

I agree. Fonts are too small and so is the UI. Some kind of scaling or customization would be greatly appreciated. I'm not sure how this could be overlooked for so long.

It is such a pity that such a cool company as Larian is not eager to even respond to these posts. I suppose that the possibilities in the UI size department and font size would be appreciated by such short sighted folks as i am, but as well by people with better eyes playing at high res from a distance. Or at least add the possibility to zoom in. The windwos zoom in feature wont work properly with the game. Tried it.

It is such a pity that such a cool company as Larian is not eager to even respond to these posts. I suppose that the possibilities in the UI size department and font size would be appreciated by such short sighted folks as i am, but as well by people with better eyes playing at high res from a distance. Or at least add the possibility to zoom in. The windwos zoom in feature wont work properly with the game. Tried it.

Good day, Larian Studios,

Hopefully, we can scale the font size of the text and UI to fit each person's taste. It's really hard to read and found myself squinting a lot when reading Character Sheet, Item Description, and the like.

Thank you!

Hi,

I'm trying to play your game on PS5. My wife and I were looking forward to playing together in split-screen, however we can't even decipher the UI in full screen. I can barely read the tool tips from the couch, which disappear before I'm halfway through trying to make out what it says. My wife can't read it at all. Only the dialog font size can be scaled, 80px is just big enough for us. The radial wheels, item descriptions and character sheet are practically invisible.

I would love to play your game, have always been a big fan of Baldur's gate and its spin offs. However this seems to be unplayable for us now (age 46 and 49).

Unfortunately, the developer probably ignored the topic and we won't see these improvements. Pity. Didn't the dev see that there was a problem with the text size?

Anything UI/Gameplay Options related is pretty much DONE and FINISHED as far as Larian is concerned. Although there have been on-going issues and complaints since EA. That team has LONG GONE.

I mean the game is a perfect 10/10 right?
Now is just basic cinematic bug fixing and maybe some tweaked/added romance and relationship content. Maybe a few more sexy scenes. Thats what most people want. Who cares about improving the D&D gameplay and Chapter 2/3 butchered story.
But hey when the rest of the industry smells like vomit...hard to fault Larian.

They recently added text scaling for books, which I'm extremely grateful for. The only thing is, they left the text scaling for LETTERS. Hopefully they remedy that sooner than later.

I'll jump on this thread and add just my "me too"
i'm not native english so I don't know exactly how to explain but I have to make crippling efforts reading either on laptop (please don't judge me!) and on the 50' TV.
UI and fonts are too small for me, yes. But thickness of letters and color combination between text and background sometimes don't help even if I lean closer.
Maybe adding a 1pixel line of pitch black or white-white on letters could do the magic. I don't mean a line all around the letter, just on 2 sides like bottom&right, bottom&left etc. This woud give a 3d appearance to the text as a side effect but most importantly would make reading always easyer whatever colors there are. There are some (kinda) gray on black, pink on purple or other tone on tone texts I gave up trying to read, so sad!
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