I try to download the file and both Chrome and Firefox claim the file may have been tampered with, so I choose to download anyway and I cannot even extract the zip file?.

Also first time I've seen both browsers claim it's being delivered over "non-secure connection".

Still working great in 2024! Thanks

Breaks some descriptions, like how some words go over the box, like some weapon descriptions. Other than that, this is a GODSEND

Works like a charm on 4k res. finally no more IRL Zoom-in.

You are welcome mate, enjoy the game :)

Thanks for your mod, my eyes don't have to be blind at last, you are a god, I kneel for two hours to express my gratitude to you.

Continuation of my previous post 2:
Another way to check if this is Windows the messes with your resolution and zoom-in bug - is to put size of text back to 100%. This will make your desktop text small as hell on 4k monitor, but will insure thaat there is no software scaling is happening on Windows-side.

Continuation of my previous post:
Go and find Starbound executable in your steam folder. You right click it and select properties. From there you select Compatability tab and click on Change high DPI settings button at the bottom area. There you check High DPI sacling override. Put a check next to Overide high DPI scaling behaving and select Application.
This should allow you to make sure that Windows does not scale your game before you scale it further with application itself. This trick works for many games by the way, especially if you are trying to run them in bordeless window and not in fullscreen and experiencing sometimes that the resolution is worng or the window is oversized despite the fact that the ingame menu shows you the correct resolution.

Indeed, what you are describing is very, very weird. 1 thing I can think of is the zoom level of windows for text. You know, when you right click on Desktop and select Display Settings, you have a field there that says Scale and Layout and usualy when you have 2k or 4k monitor the size of text is scaled to 125-150% or some people select even more. If this is your case than I woulkd suggest the following (because this might be actualy the issue). Check my other message due to the text limit.

I went in and changed the game settings (in game) to your screenshot resolution of 2560x1440 at 3x windowed. Then I attempted to play. Nothing changed. I quit and restarted, and the game maintained that same resolution setting in the options ONLY, but again, nothing was different in-game.

Weird part is I checked the config file and that also had the updated 2560x1440 resolution, but seemed to just generally default to 1280x720 and I dont know why. I tried something else, and attempted to change the resolution in the cofig file itself, then make it read only so the game wouldnt change it. But what ended up happeing is the game created a "config.tmp" file instead, which then defaulted to 1280x720 for the resolution.

Not sure what else to do lol. This is a weird issue.

Try to use 2k resolution like on one of my screenshots and see if this changes the issue. Maybe there was indeed the hidden patch. Maybe 4k was patched. I do not know.

Thank you for response! Still trying to get this working. I took some screenshots (below) to show you what its doing when I don't change anything and just use your mod and pak file. Like I mentioned, things are super zoomed in. Going into the in-game "settings" and changing the zoom doesn't do anything though. Keep in mind these screenshots are full-screen ones, and my current resolution on my computer (laptop) is 3840x2160. Changing the resolution scale in-game doesn't do anything (I read the slider is bugged).

Do I have to do this somewhere else like a cofig file? If so, where exactly and how?

https://imgur.com/8uZPJOQ

https://imgur.com/Cxs8i6E

https://imgur.com/ugFqjP8

Check the zoom level inside the settings, where you setup the resolution. Play with it's value. Other than that there is nothing else I can think of unless the game was hiddenly patched, which is doubtful to me.

So I subscribed to this and added the PAK file to the mods folder as instructed. I have a 4k monitor. When I completed this, the game looks SUPER zoomed in. Like all the UI elements and everything is too large. Has this been reported? Is there a fix?

That's not how censorship works

Sh*t happens. That is why you have my mod :)))

Why the hell isn't this in the default game

Is there a mod for 1080p displays? I just want something like 1.5x increase

You made this game playable. Thank you so much!

Indeed, the cause of this is usually a Vsync. I'm glad you figured it out ;) Enjoy the mod!

I take it back, it was a vsync issue

Great mod though!

Unsure if this was an issue addressed, I couldn't find anything, but my UI flickers and blinks in sections (Top third when doing character creation, bottom half with the intro scene with the stage) Is there a way to fix this at all? Tried in borderless and fullscreen modes

(1920 x 1080 )

Thank you. Now I get what that means, I didn't know the expression "speech bubble". In portuguese we call those things by the word for "balloon".
You're right, that font doesn't increase beyond a certain point, and that is still too small. I'm gonna ask in ChuckleFish forum if anyone knows if there is a way.

I'm glad that you are enjoying my mod. I did it in order to play the game comfortably. Otherwise I was ready to quit as you are ;) The game is a masterpiece and you will have great time playing it. trust me. As for the chatbubbles - it controls the text, which the NPCs are showing during the conversation. There is a hardcoded limit on how big it can be, because the chat bubble itself is fixed size. At least it was, when I was doing this mod. The size that I made is the biggest that can fit inside this bubble without obscuring the bubble. Making it very big also seems not to work, thus I think it is hardcoded in the game.

This mod is great! Thank you Cyberion. I just bought this game and I was thinking of refunding, its unplayable on 4k screen, but this mod saved it. But I also thank Windows XP, I followed his advice and changed maxInterfaceScale to 4. I am also experimenting with other changes, trying to increase font size.
I never modded anything and I am learning how to do it just to be able to play this.
What does the chatbubbles file control? I changed the font value and didn't notice changes. I did some changes in the font in interface.config, which helped, but I have to learn more about it.

It looks like this doesn't scale the UI story text, which is extremely tiny (and the reason I looked up this mod to begin with). Mod seems to work great otherwise!

It was just trial and error. No other way unfortunately.

Another thing I'm wondering is how did you determine the correct "/textWrapWidth" parameter to go with the bigger font size? I want to make the fonts a little bigger and was wondering what your method was of matching those 2 values. Is it just trial and error or is there a better way to configure the text wrap width?

Ok thanks for the response. After further investigation, it seems that this mod does increase the ui scale to 3x on my computer but it's still too small for me which is why I thought it wasn't working. I figured out how to solve the problem though. I used the "1x ui scale" mod, unpacked it, changed the scale to 4x and now the ui is a satisfactory size.

So anyone with small udh monitors or people that sit a long way from the monitor, there's something you can do. I might publish a "4x ui scale" mod since there isn't really one on the workshop.

I didn't manage to figure this out. Either it is a cardcoded limitation or something else. I wish I could help as I hate small font myself. But the best result of my efforts is this mod ;) It is not perfect, but it makes job done with small limitations here and there.

ok so it only works if I run my video settings at fullscreen and anything other than 3840x2160. Now if only I could figure out how to edit unpack the .pak file to try to add 3840x2160 to the list of resolutions that activate the mod..

This doesn't seem to be working or doing anything for me. I subscribed, downloaded the ui_upscale.pak file (and put it in mods) and it didn't work. I then copied contents.pak from my workshop folder to the mods folder and it still didn't work.

Can anyone confirm whether or not this mod still works?

followup: looks like it conflicts with some race mods, while NOT having character extender mod installed. Installing "Xbawks Character Extender" made this mod work fine. That's a little strange. But whatever

Hey. Got errors starting game with this mod:
https://paste.pics/4b436f68338665ee7f585cb2dba3103e

Any ideas what mod may be causing issues? Here is a list of my installed mods:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2290107547

My pleasure mate!

Spent so much time on this game but that UI was going to wreck my vision, you're an eyes savior thank you a lot dude!

Unfortunately no. UI is pretty much locked on a code level. I did the best I could using unpacking as a bypass. I still do not understand why it doesn't work without manual and seperate unpacking. But at least it works ;))) Better than nothing.

Thanks a lot man! this worked perfectly. Can I get one extra level of zoom for the UI without unpacking anything? I have Linux and unpacking the assets doesnt work

Doesnt work for me

Books doesn't work properly, sometimes I can't see target point, but mostly it's ok

You are welcome, mate! I'm glad that my mod helped you.

Dear lord, THANK you for this! You're a complete lifesaver!

Just a heads up though, you do NOT need to re-download your mod manually. Simply copy and paste the existing one into the mod folder once you've subscribed. When you subscribe, you can find it here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\211820\964450972

Just copy contents.pak and paste it into C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\mods

Works like a charm! However, there are a few context windows that will run off screen with your mod - especially when using race extenders and whatnot. Many folks will need to combine this with both "UI Tweak" mods in order to center the context windows.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=747647351&searchtext=ui+tweak
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=747649537&searchtext=Tooltip+Tweak

Thank you again! This problem has plagued me since Starbound's Early Access!

Yape, it is integer based.

Is maxInterfaceScale only use integer? I set value to 2.7/3.9/1.9 and UI size is same as 2/3/1(I'm using a 1920x1200 display and 3x scale will cause item bar cover quest indicator).

Works perfect, even on 1.4.4 running at UHD 4K in Linux! Thank you!!

Well, I wasn't planning on 8k for sure for this game :)

Oh, any plans for an 8k version lol? You can already buy 8k PC monitors XD.

As monitor's are getting higher and higher resolutions, having an option to increase the UI size in games is becoming more and more mandatory.

Thanks for this. I can now finally SEE the UI now on my 4k screen without having to squint my eyes.

Starbound really needs the option to change the UI size by default.

Well its not working for me. When I open the link I get this: https://i.postimg.cc/Yqf7svkC/Capture.png

Could you maybe send the download directly to me?

Everything works. Just checked.