LET'S TALK: Minimum Screen Resolution

[ChaneDDO]

Desktop : 1920x1200 on a 28" monitor
Laptop : 1920x1200 on a 17" screen

I use a lot of hotbars (15+ on all characters) and still have plenty of room.

But.... please make the UI resizeable. Especially the mouse cursor. Lost count how many times I've lost it in a fight with lots of spells effects going on.

Its been in the suggestions forum for over 2 years now and has got to be easy to implement :

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=225027

[Lyle_Vertigo]

What they need to do first is have the placement of UI interfaces seperate for both full and windowed mode. It gets quite irritating to see my hotbars, chatboxes and other things get pushed/mashed together after toggling between full and windowed a few times...

[Garix]

Desktop : 1920x1200 on a 28" monitor
Laptop : 1920x1200 on a 17" screen

I use a lot of hotbars (15+ on all characters) and still have plenty of room.

But.... please make the UI resizeable. Especially the mouse cursor. Lost count how many times I've lost it in a fight with lots of spells effects going on.

Its been in the suggestions forum for over 2 years now and has got to be easy to implement :

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=225027

According to MF not that easy: http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p...8&postcount=76

[EllisDee37]

I can't imagine trying to play the game in 800x600. with default settings, the hotbar/chat/targeting overlap each other because they're too wide.

I'll post a screen shot; it all fits quite nicely.

Sorry, forgot about this. Here we go:



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[Warinx]

1920*1024, that said it is nice to be able to run it in really low resolution if you fire up an ancient laptop for your 2nd account or some such.

[Noctus]

1920x1200.

24" monitor.

[FooWonk]

Main Account: 1920x1280 on 17" mb-pro
2nd Account: 800x600 on same 17" mb-pro but in a window

[HidalgoXaran]

Ok, I run this game on a 1024X600 resolution. My screen is of a mere diagonal of 10,1 inches.

1. I know, this is extreme, like playing DDO on a iPad.

2. The game runs perfectly (although I get a bit of lag sometimes in raid).

3. There isn't much space in my screen and the item slots/chat/ally hp bar take much much space. In fact, there is not much left for my caracter. I'd definitely wish that my character could be smaller, or that the item slots where smaller.

4. The main problem I get is with Item description. I often lose part of the descriptions, even without having the details of every aspects. GS items are such a pain... Really.

Otherwise, it's all good!

[Phoenix-daBard]

4. The main problem I get is with Item description. I often lose part of the descriptions, even without having the details of every aspects. GS items are such a pain... Really.

Go into UI settings and turn off detailed descriptions. You can still mouse over the bullet points and see the details that way and works much better on small screens.

[HidalgoXaran]

Go into UI settings and turn off detailed descriptions. You can still mouse over the bullet points and see the details that way and works much better on small screens.

Yeah, that's what I meant, even with the option turned off, i lose bits of information with the screen i use.

[sudzz]

Run the main screen on windowed 1920*1080 on a 40" LED TFT, second screen at 1280*1024 for wiki, gs recipes, shroud puzzle solver. Did run the 40" full screen but too many probs jumping from screen to screen got fixed by running game in window but maximised to fill screen with small border. Yes some tootips are too tall to fit the screen properly and could do with a slider control, mouse could also do with a easy spot option in high fracas mode dissappearing and clicking on wrong spell/hotbar is a pain.

[Eighnuss]

IF you people decide to pass over the UI again as this thread seems to hint, PLEASE give an option to enable the OLD STYLE PARTY HP BARS that were changed with the arti update. The inability to see/ read the names of my party members is absolutely ass and has infuriated me since its change. Add option to use OLD STYLE HP BARS please so I can identify my party members. Playing on 1920 x 1080 27" monitors, the player name text is about 4-5 pixels tall and each letter seems to be like 3 pixels wide. Who can see that bovine fecundation? Remember all those times you said "Johnny1234 needs fire resist" but you didn't get it? It's cause I couldn't read the **** names to see which player of the 12 in group is Johnny1234.

TL;DR Give option for old style party hp bars

[Jonathrint]

I use 1024x768 at home on my 19" CRT.
Flatscreens give me a headache (flourescent backlighting) and widescreens are an abomination against reading large volumes of text...and they break all my old games that I still like to play that are based on 4:3 ratios.

[Turtlsdown]

IF you people decide to pass over the UI again as this thread seems to hint, PLEASE give an option to enable the OLD STYLE PARTY HP BARS that were changed with the arti update. The inability to see/ read the names of my party members is absolutely ass and has infuriated me since its change. Add option to use OLD STYLE HP BARS please so I can identify my party members. Playing on 1920 x 1080 27" monitors, the player name text is about 4-5 pixels tall and each letter seems to be like 3 pixels wide. Who can see that bovine fecundation? Remember all those times you said "Johnny1234 needs fire resist" but you didn't get it? It's cause I couldn't read the **** names to see which player of the 12 in group is Johnny1234.

TL;DR Give option for old style party hp bars

In the menu, under Options --> UI Settings

You can (un)check:

Show Vitals Bar Values
Show Vitals Bar Percentage Values
Show numerical vitals values in Party UI
Show percentage vitals values in Party UI
Show Party UI Vitals Bar for you
Show Pet Vitals Bars in Party UI

I don't know for sure is this is what you are talking about but a combination of these features turned on or off might get you close to your goal.

[EllisDee37]

You guys couldn't possibly fit the fate spinner screens into 800x600, huh? Jerks.

[Phoenix-daBard]

You guys couldn't possibly fit the fate spinner screens into 800x600, huh? Jerks.

Saw that one coming from Lam and you have my sympathy. I have to go full screen on my laptop and netbook to see the full dialog. (1366x768)

[CascadeSpirit]

It would be nice if we could scale the size of the ui (Add a slider to the options to change sizes of parts of the ui) or even font size would be nice.

Yes, please!!!!

[ZzpxpzZ]

I run at 5760x1080 resolution and some game elements dont scale propely, and so look huge and distorted at this high a resolution.

Mostly the new player tips and the character select and creation screen. Would be nice if it was fixed but neither of those things is particularly impacting to most game play.

[EllisDee37]

Okay, I've figured out a reasonably functional solution to dealing with the destiny screen. If my only choices are this or switching to 1024x768 permanently, I'll take this any day. I normally run 800x600 windowed, so to open and close destiny screen I now do:

1) Options => full screen
2) Options => 1024x768
3) Ctrl-E, do whatever i need to regarding destinies
4) Options => 800x600
5) Options => Windowed mode

This is cumbersome, yes, but I can get used to it.

[tikwid]

1024x768 and i use fullscreen