Accidentally Alt-Tabbed, now my font is tiny

[Teddie1056]

I alt-tabbed to full screen by accident, and when I tabbed back, my window was tiny.

- Changing the resolution: This just made the window bigger, but all of my boxes (hp window, group window) were tiny and the font size was tiny. I tried doing /chatfontsize 5, but that only made it slightly better. The windows were still tiny.

- Restarting my Computer: This did nothing

- Changing my video mode: This only changed the size of the eq window, but everything inside eq stayed the same size.

The alt-tabbing also messed with my other windows (Chrome and file explorer), but i just had to minimize and maximize them to make them return to normal.

[Tupakk]

Haven't heard of this you got comparing SSS?

[Teddie1056]

Hmm?

[Tupakk]

Screenshots. Sorry iPad auto corrected.

[Teddie1056]

http://i.imgur.com/xE3HUTj.png

[Tupakk]

I would look at your ini and do a search for font. Or post your ini so it can be looked at.

[Teddie1056]

http://i.imgur.com/UzqtGMB.jpg

[Tupakk]

Top of my head you changed your video mode resolution. I say that cause your UI is all over the place.

Start clicking on each resolution til you find the one you were using.

[loramin]

I'm no expert, but that does look like some sort of resolution problem. First off I'd try entering/existing full-screen (it's not likely to fix anything, but it only takes two seconds and could help). Second, I'd check all of the resolution settings in eqclient.ini. It's possible you have some that are correct, but one set is off.

EDIT: Or do it in game as Tupakk suggested (posted before I saw his reply).

[Teddie1056]

Changing the video mode doesnt change the font size, just the size of the window.

[Teddie1056]

http://i.imgur.com/p5aT6Wd.jpg

[Teddie1056]

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

WHen i try to take a fullscreen PrtScn

[loramin]

Since changing the resolution in the game isn't helping I'd really recommend taking a look at the eqclient.ini file. Something must be screwy in there (as that's where EverQuest stores all the configuration for this stuff), and the most obvious thing would be the (confusingly multiple) resolution settings.

[Teddie1056]

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[Crookstinger]

I think this is where the problem is:

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I think you might need to change the last 4 lines of that bit to:

[VideoMode]
Width=1280
Height=768
WidthWindowed=1280
HeightWindowed=768
WindowedWidth=1280
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I am not 100% certain though so it might not hurt to make a backup of your .ini file just to be safe.

[loramin]

I think this is where the problem is:

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Width=1280
Height=768
WidthWindowed=2560
HeightWindowed=1600
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I think you might need to change the last 4 lines of that bit to:

[VideoMode]
Width=1280
Height=768
WidthWindowed=1280
HeightWindowed=768
WindowedWidth=1280
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I am not 100% certain though so it might hurt to make a backup of your .ini file just to be safe.

Crookstinger beat me to it, but yeah those multiple resolution settings are exactly what I suspected. And as suggested it's always a good idea to take a backup before changing anything.

[Crookstinger]

I think I just happened to click the thread at the right time! Glad to hear I wasn't offbase, and of course I meant it might NOT hurt to make a backup (luckily I could still edit my previous post).

[Teddie1056]

Changing it only changes the window size, but not what is in the window.

[loramin]

I think I just happened to click the thread at the right time!

Heh, indeed you did (not mad :))
Changing it only changes the window size, but not what is in the window.

This is peculiar. Resolution both affects the window size (you're saying "play EverQuest in a space X by Y"), but it also affects the size of stuff inside the window (because you're saying "scale the stuff inside that window to X by Y"). But it seems like you changing the resolution only changes the first part.

First, sanity check: can you try fixing the resolution, then restarting your computer and restarting EQ? Sometimes Windows is just weird. If that doesn't help though hopefully someone else will have an idea.

EDIT

I found this thread, which seems to match your "things go black when you go to full screen" behavior: https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76197. Wouldn't hurt to try:

Ok Here is how I fixed it.

I cut my eqclient.ini file out of the directory so it was forced to create a new one. Violia it works. I loaded EQ didnt touch a SINGLE OPTION.

It worked again when I loaded it.

Went into game, changes resolution to native, 1920x1080, reloaded it. WORKED!


(In other words, instead of trying to fix what's broken in your eqclient.ini you can back it up, remove it, then start EQ, which forces it to create a new, not-broken eqclient.ini, and then go from there. Of course you'll lose all your current settings changes, but it might be worth the hassle of having to re-do those changes.)

[Crookstinger]

Changing it only changes the window size, but not what is in the window.
Did it change it back to the size you were used to before the Alt-Tab incident? If so, then I wonder if maybe just changing two of those 4 lines would help. For instance:

WidthWindowed=1280
HeightWindowed=768
WindowedWidth=2560
WindowedHeight=1600

or

WidthWindowed=2560
HeightWindowed=1600
WindowedWidth=1280
WindowedHeight=768

I am not sure what the difference is between WidthWindowed and WindowedWidth (same goes for height) but maybe they don't do the same thing.

Another thing you might try (and maybe try this before changing the numbers above) is reloading your UI, if the window size is back to where you like it. The command is /loadskin <ui_name> or I think you can do it from the options window.

EDIT: Excellent suggestions by Loramin above as well.

[Teddie1056]

Reloading the UI skin didnt work. Already tried that

[Crookstinger]

Ah OK, I thought you might have but didn't see it mentioned when I rechecked the thread.

I guess at this point you can keep tinkering, or start from scratch by trying Loramin's suggestion of removing the eqclient.ini to a safe location (don't delete it!) and force the program to create a new one. I'd personally choose the latter, because usually by the time I tinker with something like this, it would have been quicker to just start from scratch and re-do the settings. And you can always use your old .ini file for reference for anything not video mode related, in case you don't remember all the settings.

[Teddie1056]

I removed the ini file to no avail.

I am playing on a surface, if that changes anything.

[loramin]

I am playing on a surface, if that changes anything.

Oh geez, that's very likely related. Maybe a different approach might work: have you tried using a program that wraps EQ in a more modern window manager, such as EQW? Without that you're trying to shove a 19-year old app in to an environment that didn't even exist until many years after EverQuest Titanium had stopped being used.

Not saying you can or can't do it, but you may well need a wrapping program to make EverQuest look more like a modern Windows app to Surface Windows.

[Teddie1056]

I just dont understand why I have successfully played on this surface for over a year now.