Text Sizes

[nurbles]

I think I will enjoy the Kerbal Space Program, but so far not so much. I need to use a magnifying glass to read the text in the user interface because the characters are a bit under 1/16 inch tall! My system has an Ultra HD4K display running at 3840x2160 and the game's only available text size for the user interface is simply too tiny. Normally, I'd set the game to run in a different resolution, but that just put it in a smaller window. I wish there was at least one more option for user interface size, double or even quadruple of the default would be great.

All of the other graphics look great and scale beautifully, but if there is a way to change the user interface size, it has resisted all of my attempts to find it. I do not have perfect (or better) vision, so the game either requires a magnifying glass (which is VERY ANNOYING) or causes a physical headache from the eyestrain required to squint at unnecessarily tiny text.

Oh behalf of all very high resolution and/or vision impaired users, I sincerely hope this suggestion is worthy of consideration. Thanks!

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Quick followup: I *did* find the full screen option and the text is now readable in 1280x720, but I'd like to use the hardware I paid for and that will require an option to choose a larger interface text size. I can adjust the size of the flight navigation interface ... why not the user interface text, too! PLEASE!

[Windy]

New user on a 5k iMac 27" and the OP describes the problem exactly

 

yes full screen at a reduced resolution 'fixes' the issue but if I could increase the UI size well beyond the current max of 1.5 to say 5 or 6 that would be what I would like.

[TheRagingIrishman]

2 hours ago, Windy said:

New user on a 5k iMac 27" and the OP describes the problem exactly

 

yes full screen at a reduced resolution 'fixes' the issue but if I could increase the UI size well beyond the current max of 1.5 to say 5 or 6 that would be what I would like.

You might be able to do that by editing the settings.cfg file. I'm not sure if it works for ui scale but I know for other things you can set stuff to numbers outside the limits in the in game menu.

[DMagic]

The in-game UI scale only goes up to 1.5 or so, but you can edit the settings.cfg file in your KSP folder to set it higher. 

The line is: UI_SCALE = 1

Just change it to something like 2 or 3. I think some parts of the UI run into problems if you set it too high, maybe some of that can be alleviated by setting some of the individual scales a little lower.

[Windy]

Thanks I will give it a try tonight