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xthrones1994
6 years ago

SMALL UI?

hello, im getting really frustrated with the sims 3, i got a new gaming laptop and the menu and boxes during gameplay are SUPER small compared to the actual sims and such, i think its called the UI. anyways, my old non-gaming laptop did not have this problem, im assuming it has to do with the graphics card but i have tried everything and the only thing that works is using low resolution in game which completlely defeats the purpose of running beautiful graphics. so im kinda stuck as this ruins the whole point of playing the game on a brand new gaming laptop... attached is a pic. running 1920x1080 (same as display on desktop)

Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 18362) (18362.19h1_release.190318-1202)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
System Model: TUF Gaming FX505DD_FX505DD
BIOS: FX505DD.308 (type: UEFI)
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3550H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx (8 CPUs), ~2.1GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8000MB RAM
Page File: 9272MB used, 1933MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 144 DPI (150 percent)
System DPI Setting: 120 DPI (125 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Enabled
Miracast: Available, with HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Supported
DirectX Database Version: 1.1.5
DxDiag Version: 10.00.18362.0387 64bit Unicode

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    @xthrones1994  Sorry for the late reply; I'm not sure whether I missed this post or the spam filter ate it and spat it out later.

    The UI is dependent on the in-game resolution, not the graphics card or its settings (at least as far as I've ever seen).  The higher the resolution, the smaller the UI will be.  Yours does look pretty small for 1920x1080 though.

    One thing that might help (or it might not) is changing the system and user DPI to 96 (100%).  Sims 3 doesn't always respond to settings like that, and it's at least worth testing.

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