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06-06-09, 12:03 AM   #1
Peter Tran
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Yeah... Problem...

Everything is unreadable... I can't even make out text... If I change the font size in the chat box it fills up too much of the box and I can't see... Everything else will still be small and I can't even read player names, The mod seems quite promising, But unless I want to develop eye problems I wont be using it any further unless someone can help me here, I looked at the FAQ already, tried and no help...
 
06-06-09, 12:08 AM   #2
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Can you post a screen shot of what you see? Also, what size monitor and resolution are you using for comparison sakes? Any other addons installed besides nUI?

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06-06-09, 12:17 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Vis View Post
Can you post a screen shot of what you see? Also, what size monitor and resolution are you using for comparison sakes? Any other addons installed besides nUI?


That's a screen shot, and no, no addons.

I'm using a 14x12 screen.

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06-06-09, 12:26 AM   #4
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I will say from personal experience, nUI looks much better on a widescreen display. I understand not everyone has those yet either, I didn't until about 2 months ago, lol.

Here's what I would recommend to try though: Download an addon that supports multiple fonts. Most Chat addons do this. The plain and simple reason, more sizes to choose from. Blizz default gives you 3 or 4 different options I believe, and all of them generally look horrible. That would be my starting point for the chat issues. I personally have upped my font to 17. seems much more legible with my current prescription

Are there any other visibility issues besides the chat screen? I know some things have been resized before by users, and I know the post's are around here somewhere....Always forget to bookmark the good ones, lol.

**The Chat addon I am using currently is called Chatter, the newest is from Curse.com here: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...s/chatter.aspx
 
06-06-09, 03:33 AM   #5
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Yeah, one of my guildies that use nUI had problems reading the text so I told him about the sizing up of fonts. Then it was the case that the fonts were too big. And thats going from 11 to 12.
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06-06-09, 06:12 AM   #6
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There's a mod out there called "ClearFont" (I think?) that would probably do the trick. I think the "Use UI Scale" option will help with the chat frame, too... but I could be wrong on that.

The bottom line, however, is that looking at the screen shot... that appears to be a very very low resolution display and that's going to be a problem because it causes font blur. A higher resolution would help a lot. nUI is really optimized for something between 17" and 22" in a display size, as well.
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06-06-09, 08:39 AM   #7
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Well, I could solve the chatbox text problem... However, if you try to read my character name or the buff line you can't.
 
06-06-09, 08:51 AM   #8
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Is it too small or too blurry?
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06-06-09, 08:57 AM   #9
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(Tinypic made the image more blury, otherwise it looks great on this resolution, The highest.)

Too blury. I took up my resolution and it made everything perfect, however... My framerate was divided by 4. I don't have the best PC in the world...

I did fixed the chatbox problem on my 800x600 resolution though, it's just all the other text was too blurry, it could be a bit bigger, heck, everything could be a bit bigger such as the minimap for example.
 
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Well... if I made the minimap bigger, it wouldn't fit in the space available. Likewise for most of the other elements.

There are actually two FAQs on this topic...

http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=21010
http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=20917

Both of which might help you some. The key thing is that if you're playing at a low resolution on a small monitor, well... everything is going to be small and low res. The only alternative is to get into the layout files in [ Interface > AddOns > nUI > Layouts > Default ] and start customizing the size of things to suit your needs.

I'll hasten to add, as well, that you're showing a frame rate of 30fps in your screen shot, which by simple physical law is the fastest frame rate your eye is capable of seeing, so it shouldn't be an issue honestly.

Originally Posted by Peter Tran View Post
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(Tinypic made the image more blury, otherwise it looks great on this resolution, The highest.)

Too blury. I took up my resolution and it made everything perfect, however... My framerate was divided by 4. I don't have the best PC in the world...

I did fixed the chatbox problem on my 800x600 resolution though, it's just all the other text was too blurry, it could be a bit bigger, heck, everything could be a bit bigger such as the minimap for example.
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