Different res for GUI and game?

[imacken]

Anyway to have a different res for GUI to the one used in game?

I thought that 'Scale GUI' might do something along those lines, but no.

I was using 2560x1440, but the game doesn't look much different @ 1920x1080 except for higher fps. But, I hate looking at the GUI in that res!

[BIGNEWY]

I was searching for the answer but can not find it.

 

My understanding is it is not possible currently

[imacken]

Thanks BIGNEWY, can you tell me what ‘Scale GUI’ option is supposed to do? Doesn’t seem to do anything in my case.

[BIGNEWY]

I may have miss understood

 

it should scale the gui on larger screens like 4K but I dont think you will see much of a difference at 2560x1440

 

but changing it to your own preference is not possible as far as I am aware

[SkateZilla]

Scale GUI Adjusts the UI Layer (Menu's, Subtitles, Radio Displays, etc)

 

So on a 4K Screen,

 

w/ Scale GUI OFF, Everything will be Small

 

w/ Scale GUI ON, Items are scaled based on horizontal resolution.

 

Note. Scale GUI requires restart, so check, press OK, allow DCS to relaunch.

 

See Examples Attached:

Edited April 7, 2018 by SkateZilla

[imacken]

Thanks guys. Sorry, but I am confused. Do you mean that if an in game res of, say 1080p, is set in DCS on a 4K screen, then the GUI and menus will be at 4K? Or, do you mean, that the in game would have to be set to 4K?

Sorry!

[SkateZilla]

DCS Resolution At 3840x2160 and w/ Scale GUI it will Scale the UI to 200% and make everything larger (Similar to the UI Size on a 1080P Screen running DCS at 1920x1080)..

Edited April 7, 2018 by SkateZilla

[imacken]

But the sim will run at 4K?

[SkateZilla]

But the sim will run at 4K?

 

Yes.. All Screenshots above are 4K.

[imacken]

Ok, got it.

What I want is the opposite of that! That is, to scale the GUI down.

[SkateZilla]

not sure if it works in reverse, never tried

[imacken]

It’s more likely in these days of 4K and 5K monitors, that users are likely to be running DCS at resolutions lower than native. Therefore, I would suggest that it would be useful to able to have menus, GUI etc. at a lower scaling rather than higher.

Perhaps a user defined sliding scale for scaling?