Guild Wars 2

I guess this is just resolution issue
but when i have ui on small and open trading post the words get, well, just blurryish
im adding pic with my graphics settings and trading post

Just crank it up to normal until this is fixed. I’m sure it will be soon.

I’ve found that the font on the Trading Post pages is a bit small now that its up. It can be a bit hard to read some of the text.

Yeah I have the same issue, logged a bug report last night with screen shot.

It’s really annoying and exceptionally hard to read. However my friends don’t suffer from the same issue, so it’s a weird one.

Font is small for me, as well as the lines being kind of broken up. Looks like it was written with a pen that is running out of ink. Very difficult to read. Fonts everywhere else in the game are fine.

Switch to medium text and it will appear fine.

It’s your interface size. The scaling is terrible. Set it back to normal.

But yes. Please fix this. I’d like to use the small UI for skills and still be able to read the Trading Post.

Buy button is greyed out for me too and thus i cant buy anything because when clicked the button is unrepsonsive

Hey guys,

Probably quite a minor issues compared to some but I have my UI size set to ‘Small’ which works perfectly fine except for when it comes to the Trading Post.

The font scales down in such a way it becomes extremely pixelated and very difficult to read. It’s almost like trying to read the text on one of those CAPTCHA images – this applies to the whole Trading Post, including the gem store.

The only solution I’ve found is to change my UI size whenever I want to use the Trading Post and then change it back once I’m done which isn’t particularly ideal.

:-(

I can second this, I run the game on a smaller screen rez and would love to use the small UI but I can’t bare to read the pixel letters in the O-store.

Fix plz

And a third… small interface makes the Trading Post font illegible.

exact same issue here

Happens the same to me, at 1600×900 res.

Same problem, but only on 1600×900 with small UI setting, i usually just change it to normal for trading post

This is an Interface Size issue. I had my interface set to small on 1600×1080 the lions trading post and store was fuzzy, set your interface size to “Normal” and that will fix the issue for all of you, until they rectify this with a HotFix for the font which seems to be that the font does not scale correctly.

Same, also with 1600×900

Workaround already posted, https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Trading-post-words-hard-to-read/first#post6789

same problem here 1920×1080

Resolution does not matter.

It’s the fact that they chose to UPSCALE or DOWNSCALE the UI instead of re-render a different font size.

A terrible oversight. This has to be fixed by them, we can only workaround it by keeping the UI scaling as normal.

Another scaling issue is the ‘large’ font size isn’t large, it’s just a bolded version of the normal size.

Yes, as pointed out above, the interface is being resized after the text has been rendered instead of rendered at a smaller size to begin with.

This can lead to different results depending on your graphics card, OS, and OS text anti-aliasing settings, but it never looks good. Until they code the interface sizes properly, you’re better off sticking to “normal”.

it’s not really a workaround if we have to change to a UI size we don’t want, right?

I have the same problem, 1920×1080, very annoying as I do not want to make the ui larger.

Nemui.6753:

it’s not really a workaround if we have to change to a UI size we don’t want, right?

Actually it is considered a workaround because you are working around an issue that seems to effect the software. If it was not a workaround it would be a fix.

It is like if you are told to set the shortcut to a program to windows xp compatibility this is a workaround to workaround the fact the software malfunctions on windows 7 and until a proper patch can deployed to the offending code in the software you will need to continue to workaround the issue.

you have the interface size setting in graphics options set to small, large or larger. change that setting to normal and it should look good

The trading post is almost unreadable when using the small UI option in the graphics tab of the settings menu. It’s pretty bad – I end up squinting to read prices!

I can’t be the only one with this issue surely.

You’re not the only one. Same problem here…

I also am having this issue since launch. I was using the 296 Nvidia driver and moved to using the 306.02 beta drivers. In both instances while using the “Small UI” option the text is highly pixelated and fragmented. The only fix to this that i have seen is using the regular size ui. (not at home to say exact setting name sorry )

It is very possible that it is a resolution setting and or compatability issue with that size of ui with the resolution. I am currently using 2560 × 1440

System Specs:
i7 3750
12gb ram
Nvidia 660ti GTX
Asus Rampage 4 Extreme X79 board
Win7 64bit

similarly, I’ve got my UI set to large (2560×1440) and the trading post text is all horribly pixelated

Same issue here. Looks fine on normal, but looks pretty bad on small UI. Pretty sure it is not driver/video card related, but just in case:

Nvidia 560 ti
304.79 drivers.
1440×900 resolution (I know, my monitor sucks… That’s the max I get…)

Mojo.8431:

similarly, I’ve got my UI set to large (2560×1440) and the trading post text is all horribly pixelated

I guess the normal ui is the only one that will work for us until some new fixes are made.

I have the same issue, seems like the font used doesn’t scale well..

Same. I want to use the small UI, but I can’t see the trading post. I hope this is fixed soon. I prefer the small UI.

I too can confirm this. UI set to small, running on 1980×1020 resolution. Can barely make out the text.

I have this same issue, I can’t use the small ui because I can’t read the gemstore or trading post.

I also have this issue. 1680×1050 resolution small UI, barely readable.

The kicker is that it should NOT change the font for the text for other menu items. It should simply resize the hotbars, mini map, and chat windows imo. I think the other windows are all resizabel on their own, I dont remember the TP being resizable thou.

Bumping this up so it can get more visibility.

1. Issue: currently, using the “Small” option for the “UI Size” results in inellgible Trading Post text.
2. Issue: still using the “Small” option for the “UI Size,” crafting level of guildmates are displayed innapropriately via the guild menu — i.e. if their crafting skills is in the hundreds p (3 digits long), it will not be displayed as 123 but as 12
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I’m attaching a screenshot of the trading post because it gets the point across very well… But sometimes in certain windows the text is just not CRISP….. It’s weird… Most of all the text in chat, in chat bubbles, etc… is visible but take a look at the screenshot and you’ll see what I mean!!

I’ve had the same exact problem whenever I change HUD size to small. And that sucks because I prefer to make the UI as small as possible on my smaller monitor. Wish I knew a way to fix it

I have the same issue when I put the UI to “small”, which is unfortunate.

Looks like we have a bug then…. I never thought the UI size would have anything to do with this. I guess I’ll change to the normal UI size, but I prefer the small UI size. Maybe Anet will see this thread??? Or maybe we should report bugs…

Try chaning the resolution back and fourth that usually fix a problem like that.

If not them it might be something bugged with small UI and then contact support about it.

There is already a bunch of other topics about this.

Here’s one: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Trading-post-words-hard-to-read

Bump, needs a fix

Same problem here. I play in windowed mode and the trading post text is incredibly hard to decipher.

Same issue: 1920×1080. Nvidia 560Ti. Win7 x64.

Same issue at 1920*1080, but seeing as the normal ui is too big for me i just stick it out and go by the pictures and tooltips to see which item is which and for prices i just look at the items page since it isn’t so bad on that.

I do hope this gets fixed soon though, seems like it would be stupid easy for them to fix it.

Rumpy.6301:

Same problem here. I play in windowed mode and the trading post text is incredibly hard to decipher.

I play in windowed mode as well (on dual monitors) and I’ve found if the text starts looking bad, if I move/wiggle the window slightly the text will clear up and go back to normal. No idea why it does that, but that is the solution I’ve found.

os: win7
gpu: gtx 460
res: 1280×1024 fullscreen
interface size: small

I play Guild Wars 2 on desktop and laptop. Desktop is set to 1080p and laptop runs on 1366×768.

The main issue is that on notebook, when I enter trading post, it is blurry and quite unreadable. On desktop it’s fine and sharp. It happens only in the Trading Post. Character, Inventory, Guild windows have clear and sharp font.

Does anyone have similar issue?

Dear devs, if it is common problem, will there be a fix to this in the near future?

I append ss from my notebook: