Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I just recently went from playing on a 1920×1200 monitor to 2560×1440.

This makes the UI very small compared to what I am used to, and I wanted to use the “Interface Size” option to make the UI larger.

However when I choose “Large” and “Larger” all fonts ingame doen’t display correctly.

Look at the screenshot below to see what I mean.

I have tried restarting the client after setting the different sizes, but the fonts will only display correctly on “Normal” and “Small”.

Is there anything I can do to fix this?

It is a known bug that is over a year old and not fixed. I don’t think that there is anything you can do.

That’s a bit disheartening to hear..

I recently came back to the game after taking a long break, and spending hundreds of on euros on it. Would be a shame if I have to stop playing the game because I can’t find a solution / workaround for this problem.

It’s the same for me. I wanted to use a smaller interface but when I do I can’t read any text on the trading post so have no option but to use normal size, which I’m not to keen on. Been like this since launch last year.

Anything right of the left bar and bellow the top bar is simply a scaled bit map. Choosing smaller than normal makes them unreadable, at least here they’re just ugly.

This has to do with the TP actually being a browser in a separate task and it has no way to be told it has a larger or smaller window to render into.

Thanks for clarifying, Behellagh.

But this isn’t just limited to the TP / Gem Store browser. Take a look at the screenshot below, and the weid E in the mob description in the top middle.

It’s a shame that Anet doesn’t seem to take these kind of bugs seriously.

The trading post interface is a web integrated interface. They use a third party engine for that (ingame browser with limited capability). Due to the strict limited capability it lack of font smoothing.

To fix this please look up OS X font render for Windows GDI+
http://lifehacker.com/5190607/gdi%252B%252B-adds-os-x-font-rendering-to-windows

There are many others sorry I don’t have the links anymore.

DJRiful.3749:

To fix this please look up OS X font render for Windows GDI+
http://lifehacker.com/5190607/gdi%252B%252B-adds-os-x-font-rendering-to-windows

There are many others sorry I don’t have the links anymore.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that makes it go from bad to worse. Take a look at the screenshot below. Now you can’t even read the text at all. Even on normal interface size.

I have reverted any changes I made and is now back to my original problem.

Does anyone from Anet read these threads? An official reply would be most appreciated. Will I be able to enjoy the game again in the near future? This issue is a game breaker for me.

GDI++ requires calibration. One programed by a japanese guy but I forgot the link. His one works pretty well.

Found another one. https://code.google.com/p/gdipp/

I’ve tried gdipp as well with not much improvement.

And where is this weird E coming from? It turns up at various places in the UI, not related to the browser.

See the mob description below

Weird E is likely just a unicode font error. Let me go find some drudge to see if this is universal.

Edit. Yea it’s a font mapping issue on your end. It’s suppose to be a dot separator. Probably some combination of screen resolution, font size and desired type and the OS picked a “closest font” that has that cap E bar instead of a dot in that character location.

Seeing countless reports of these bugs going back to the release of the game, I have no option than to settle for a much smaller UI size which I find very uncomfortable. I guess I just have to try to get used to it..

If any Anet staff read this thread, please reconsider fixing this bug.

Not sure if it’s a bug, font scaling at the TP, they can fix. I think the mini browser is a 3rd party piece of software. It may be part of an entire MMO cash shop/market infrastructure software package they license.

Are any of you using Best Texture Filtering? After our settings were reset, my font looked horrible in the tp, but after I re-enabled best texture filtering, I could read them again.

I tried disabling / re-enabling Best Texture Filtering, but that didn’t do anything for me.