Tiny cursor, text, launcher and Icons
Hey everyone!, So after a 4 year hiatus, I'm back on windows bootcamp with a new mac machine, eager to play the old republic, but I'm experiencing some scaling issues. The cursor in-game is incredibl...
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@liammccull358 Oh noes! I'm sadly not experienced with Macs so not sure how much help this will be, but I think that you can get your in-game resolution (and launcher resolution) back to a fairly normal size with two steps. The first part is sorting out your launcher and game window size by altering your client_settings.ini file (as found here). I'mma paste the steps from that post here, to save you having to hunt them down:
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You may need to play the game in windowed mode, or to adjust your in-game resolution to match your monitor.
A quick shortcut is to press Alt & Enter to toggle the game between Fullscreen and Windowed mode. This can specifically help those of you experiencing "Out of Range" or "Input not supported" error messages.
Some people may have to modify the default Fullscreen option. To do so, locate the client_settings.ini file.
Never modify this file if you are not experiencing this issue. Incorrect modification of this file can create problems with your client installation.
You can do so as follows:
- Press the [Windows] Key + [R] at the same time. (The [Windows] key is the key with the Windows icon on it)
- Copy the following in to the text box and press ok: %localappdata%\swtor\swtor\settings
- Open the client_settings.ini file and ensure the following are displayed within, or edit/add if so required:
- Fullscreen = false
- D3DFullScreen = false
- RefreshRate = 60
- Save and close the file.
- Start the game as normal.
- Change graphic settings within the game as desired.
The next thing you may need to do is check and see if your Mac's default resolution settings are in agreement with your graphics driver's (and, of course, the game's). Check to see if your settings are being overridden/managed by any program in particular for starters (make sure you're running SWTOR as an administrator).
If everything went well, by now things should look more normal! You might need to adjust your overall User Interface if certain text or other parts of your HUD are still teeny. I think it's the Global Scale if you just want to enlarge everything, or if you have problems with individual elements you can alter their size separately by clicking on them one by one and configuring their scale.
Hope that helps - if not, maybe one of the more knowledgeable peeps here on the forums (or maybe on the older community forums over here) will be able to sort that out for you!
- RB
The next thing you may need to do is check and see if your Mac's default resolution settings are in agreement with your graphics driver's (and, of course, the game's). Check to see if your settings are being overridden/managed by any program in particular for starters (make sure you're running SWTOR as an administrator).
If everything went well, by now things should look more normal! You might need to adjust your overall User Interface if certain text or other parts of your HUD are still teeny. I think it's the Global Scale if you just want to enlarge everything, or if you have problems with individual elements you can alter their size separately by clicking on them one by one and configuring their scale.
RB,Thank you so much for the in-depth response! I tried editing the client_settings file, but everything seemed to match what was required. I'm interested in your second suggestion, but how do I check if my Mac's resolution settings are in agreement with the drivers? This would make sense as the Mac volume icon is affected. Thanks!
2 options as this looks like a 4k screen
Lower the resolution on the MAC to something like 1920 x 1080 or 2560 x 1440 before playing
otherwise you can enlarge the UI ingame , cant do anything for the launcher
The UI size can be increased further then the in-game scaler allows (1.25) but needs to be done for each UI profile used
•Press the [Windows] Key + [R] at the same time. •Copy the following in to the text box and press ok: %localappdata%\swtor\swtor\settings
Go to the folder called GUIProfiles , these are your UI settings for each character .
Now in these you will find a section like below, now this says global scale is set to 1.1 , set this to say 1.500000
-<Global>
<GlobalScale Value="1.100000" Type="3"/>
<EnableMovableWindows Value="0" Type="2"/>
</Global>
Hi! No, not a 4k display, just a 2014 MacBook Retina. That is currently my fix, increasing the UI, however the text remains small and the cursor is still tiny- the cursor being so small means that It's hard to select enemies quickly and it's less easy to be precise.
Thank you to everyone who has had suggestions! However, I'm still struggling :/ Any more thoughts?
