Guild Wars 2

I put the games interface settings on the largest and it still seems rather small, is there a fix for this?

Welp…it is not the interface that is small,its your resolution that is too big.
3840×2160...I’ve never seen someone playing a game in that resolution.

I think ArenaNet had normal monitors in mind when they designed the UI :P

Well that kinda sucks, in order for me to have interface that is decently sized I have to go back to 2550×1440, there isn’t a way to make the interface more large? It gets a little blurry when you downscale.

There’s no way for you to make the interface larger than the largest setting – and I wouldn’t expect them to accommodate your resolution any time soon. Most people are playing on screens with much much lower resolutions.

It’s absolutely horrendous that a game company doesn’t make a scalable interface these days with the myriad of screen dimensions available on the market. It seems that it was designed to only be played on a 1280×1024 screen that would have been prominent 6 years ago but they should have known that it wouldn’t stay that way for the life of this game. I mean tablets these days have bigger resolution than gw2 is made for.

I hope to one day be able to use the full resolution of my system as well but as it stands, I’m stuck as this game scales poorly, the interface isn’t configurable, and Anet thinks that I want all the little windows to open in the same spot regardless of if I have previously moved it somewhere else… Sometimes I wonder if they have ever played other games or not or if they’re just building this with a console in mind.

Love the game but some things are just really inconvenient or bothersome.

Oh god.

The interface is already overly large on the “Largest” setting in 1080p, which is seen as one of the more extreme resolutions and only the average for gamers. The average for “normal” users who just browse the web (mostly on laptops) is still 1366×768.

ArenaNet never expected someone to play on such a resolution.

Even if they add a larger setting for the UI, all of the icons for skills and whatnot will still be blurry because upscaling is as bad as downscaling. So only your world view would become sharper compared to playing in a lower resolution.

How do you handle your desktop? Its not scalable… :P

I’d like to know the size of your monitor to pull that setting off.

Are you playing the game in some kind of theatre?

Nice, apparently NASA plays GW2 too!

Well on the bright side – you can make some amazing looking screenies!

Well maybe in a future update they will increase the UI scale settings, there is that new 5k screen just out.

Personally I have been running the game on a 42" HDTV since release, but since my eyes are 6’ away I run it in a low resolution so I can read the text in the chat box, I run the UI at mid-scale.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I’d like to know the size of your monitor to pull that setting off.

It’s 28 inches, I got it as a gift. Apparently they cost around $599

I recommend you to play on 1080p upscaling from that resolution to your is more natural.

Haha, Wow, i get this resolution on my laptop. Its amazing how much technology has advanced in a year

moonlilly.2517:

Haha, Wow, i get this resolution on my laptop. Its amazing how much technology has advanced in a year

I theoretically can as well. Not that I’d ever run a game at 4k on a 15" laptop screen since I don’t have hubble telescopes for eyes.