Guild Wars 2

I have the same problem. I play GW2 on desktop. My sys resolution is 1280×1024 and game the same.

1920×1200 with same problems. I have my interface set to small size. As soon as I increase the size, everything becomes readable again. Report of this ingame via screenshot was done 3 weeks ago.

Wanted to bump this because the problem is still there and quite annoying. Some of us (I’m sure most of us) have high resolution screens and the normal interface just wastes a lot of screen real estate.

I end up having to swap back to normal size every time I want to use the trade post.

In graphical options check the box for “Best Texture Filtering” while it wont make it perfect it will help

@MilConDoin
Somehow I’ve got interface set to small size, too. Thanks for the advice. It takes a little more space on the screen but it’s not that bad.

In spite of all I think that it should be fixed. Checking the box for “Best Texture Filtering” unfortunately made it more blurry

I have this issue as well. It’s a very minor issue to me and I can wait for a fix. I’ve reported it in game however and did so during headstart. I can’t bring myself to play with a larger interface size so…I guess I will tough it out for now.

Yeah, small interface is the best.
But the TP looks awful as a result. And just the TP. So I guess the web browser tool doesn’t scale down so well.

Wow, it’s been a month and still no fix

After selecting small interface from the options menu the text on the TP becomes jumbled and cut off, this has been in and reported since launch, does anyone at ArenaNet read in-game /bug reports?

ya i use the small ui and have the same problem.
i wonder if Anet using a different font would help?

dunno what it would take to fix it.. but… it is a little annoying to use the trading post with the small ui.

This very much.
I’d love to run the small UI

same problem here on 3 different PC’s. All having the same issues with having a legible font for the Trading Post

there has also been a bug since launch with the large UI as well. It adds some funky text here and there. the little circle bullet points dont seem to translate up to large UI and end up being capital E’s with a line above them. Theres a few other funky text problems too with large. Seems like any change to the UI at this point is a bit bugged unfortunately

the problem with large UI has also been there since launch

Yeah I use the small UI and highest graphic setting, and it’s very difficult to read, sort of broken up.

I’ll bump that. Hate not being able to use the small UI. I’m guessing if not a UI issue it’s maybe ClearType (on\off), Font Smoothing (on/off), or possibly a missing or wrong Font?

Haven’t tested my suggestions yet… been to busy playing but… couple simple suggestions\thoughts if anyone cares to try.

Good Luck,
SKiN.

I also have this problem

Using large UI here and there are definitely weird issues as reported on this page:

http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/83099/broken-text-encoding-in-various-parts-of-the-guild-wars-2-ui

This is one of the bugs that has been bothering me the most. I would love to use the small UI setting but there’s some problems with it. One issue is that the trading post is unreadable with this setting turned on. The font is all garbled up.

Another annoyance is that player names for example do the following with their formatting:

Normal UI example:
Rytlock Brimstone[GUILD]

Small UI example:
Rytlock Brimstone
[GUILD]

The guild name stacks underneath the player name. Then what happens every now and then with certain character names is that the guild tag very rapidly alternates between stacked underneath and being normal and that’s definitely not working as intended.

Anyone else want to see this fixed ASAP? It’s been like this since the Betas….

The trading post is the most worst thing i can see with small UI. The “Rytlock Brimstone[GUILD]” is second worst thing for sure. It keeps bouncing to normal like and then again to that kittening look a like. It’s really irritating when it bounces like that and you have no chance to read it until you are near enought and stop.

Easy fix could be made for sure for Trading Post by just increasing the size of the font by bit. And character name/guild can be fixed easily too I believe.

I really would like to see this getting fixed in next patch.(Probably the windersday patch)

Glad I’m not the only one seeing this issue.

I’ve submitted bug reports in the past about it but still it hasn’t been fixed.

Getting a little frustrated with the text too, have the UI on small as its by far the best choice for me but the garbled text is annoying!

Agree with Skinbus, think it’s some sort of ClearType/Font issue, please have a look ANet!!!

To me, it looks more like the trading post is still being rendered at a resolution meant for the normal size UI, and then scaled down to fit the small UI window with no filtering; just plain nearest neighbor sampling.

Looks like the trading post is implemented as web content and then rendered inside the game by Awesomium. Maybe they just don’t have any code in place for rendering the web stuff at a lower res?

They should at least turn off the scaling for that window imo.

This has happened to me from day 1 (Launch) and I’m finally fed up with it.

As you can see in the attached screenshot there are lines of pixels missing from the Trading Post. This makes reading and navigating one hell of a headache. I don’t know why this is happening but I suspect it’s because I use a 4:3 monitor.
My graphics card is Nvidia GeForce GT240. Native Resolution is 1280 X 1024.

If you need any more info let me know because I want a Trading Post that doesn’t give me a headache to read.

Are you perhaps playing in windowed-mode? When I do this when looking for a group or something, the letters tend to get cut off quite similar to this. However, I never got this when playing full-screen.

I have the seem issue but have it in both windowed and full screen.

I dont get it in windowed. Only in fullscreen. However windowed it quite blurred but much better then the screenshot.

Edit: As soon as I posted this I noticed that it’s fix all of a sudden. In both Fullscreen and Windowed. I’ve haven’t made any changes to video or graphics.

The UI can be scaled to “normal”, “big”, “smaller” etc. with a drop down in the options menu.

What selecting “smaller” does is scaling the UI elements to a smaller size, this works as intended for all the normal UI components.

For the Trading Post, which is a embedded web view, it doesn’t work as it applies the scaling to the rendered view which makes the fonts look really bad and unreadable.

This happens because the GPU interpolation scaling works across the whole texture and it does not distinguish that each glyph must be scaled individually to be readable.

To fix this either skip the scaling for embedded web views at all, or tell the web view to render the content in a scaled size instead of manually scaling the result, It knows how to scale text well.

Game still have small ui bug related with font. This bug appear from headstart. Please repair that.

Been like this since beta. =/ I hope they fix it soon.

Still no fix to small ui..sigh come on

Same problem for everyone. Been like this since beta.

I would like to add my name to the list of people who has reported this since the beta and has just been enduring the visually displeasing glitch.

http://i.imgur.com/81WUW.jpg

I would like to add my name to the list of people who has reported this since the beta and has just been enduring the visually displeasing glitch.

http://i.imgur.com/81WUW.jpg

why is gw2 using absolute pt fonts.

http://i.imgur.com/CnWS4.png

Yup, fonts in small UI are bugged.

this is mostly a matter of awsomium not being configured properly for ui scaling.

I’ve had this issue since Beta & I’ve never changed my resolution.

So this thread was created 3 months ago and still no fix

It’s absolutely ridiculous that this kind of thing is still an issue, and it’s one of the many things failed to be fixed over time that is starting to make me regret recommending this game to as many people as I did.

Is there gonna be a fix to this at ANY POINT? I spend a great deal of time staring at this window while playing and it’s starting to get a bit ridiculous that it hasn’t been fixed yet.

Yes, please fix this. Why even have a small interface option if you can’t see the trading post?

i change my setting for GW2 Windowed Full screen and the text in TP kinda screwed up

what do you guys make of this

…and here we are 3 MORE months later, and I’m still having this issue. Was there a fix that I missed, or has everyone just started to accept it?

Hi,

I’m not sure where exactly should i post this “issue” so i decided to do it here.
Because I’m playing on my Laptop using 1366×768 resolution, i decided to change ingame UI to Small so i would have better view at everything ingame. However, changing it screws my Trading Post so it looks like showed on the attached screen:

Would be nice if ANet could fix that, because 1. this is pretty annoying and 2. playing with bigger UI is kind of problematic sometimes.

No your not the only one, I have always had that as well.

It could and should be much clearer.

I did hear that if you reduce you screen res it’s much clearer.

This problem with the small user interface has been around since launch I believe.

unfortunately two UI issues have existed since launch that are still in the game. Small and Large UI both yield text glitches and issues. You have to use the normal UI for now if you want to avoid these issues

Since this thread is over 5 months old I figured I’ll post in here since the bug is still active. I’ve played 170h and just learned today that “ui scale normal” fixes it. I’d rather play with a barely readable TP than playing with a huge UI though… So here’s to hoping they’ll fix it one of these days…

I ‘ve been dealing this issue for months as well, is there anything we can do about this? It’s really annoying.

Developers are so burried under a mountain of bugs they will never have time to fix them all. Some of them will haunt us until the day GW2 shuts down.