Text folding

[Menobank]

As the title says it looks like the text is folded. My g/f is playing on a laptop and for some reason the text all looks folded and she has to move the box or scroll chat up or down in order to read what is being said in 2 places on the chat window. We have tried moving the windows but it still happens. I am unsure if this is the UI or some setting i am unaware of. I will attach a picture of what is going on if need be maybe someone can help us out its very annoying and she is New to eq....

[evilkorn]

This is an issue with windowed mode when the window is larger than the screen, I had this problem with two monitors and the window would overhang slighty to the other. In the eqclient.ini file change the resolution to something like 30px less, just play with a couple numbers so the whole game screen fits inside the area of the display. Warning, this resets the UI so you have to move your chat boxes back to how you want them and the rest of the UI elements.

[Menobank]

it has lessened i guess i'll keep shrinking it slowly but shortly anyone have any idea how the size goes

[evilkorn]

What's the native resolution? I think I dropped them both by 50, I have a new monitor so I don't have to use that trick these days.

[Puluin]

Try Windowed Borderless Gaming.
http://westechsolutions.net/sites/WindowedBorderlessGaming/

[Menobank]

Try Windowed Borderless Gaming.
http://westechsolutions.net/sites/WindowedBorderlessGaming/

will try this see if it helps laptop is giving me issues lol

[evilkorn]

I tried that in the past, it doesn't play nice with the game. Your clicks don't register where you clicked in game.

[Menobank]

What's the native resolution? I think I dropped them both by 50, I have a new monitor so I don't have to use that trick these days.

native is 1366x768....im using wineq2 if that helps (makes game run alot smoother on laptop) but cant seem to get it to shink any... not sure what im doing wrong

[Sadiki]

It's the same for me, EQ windowed doesn't size itself properly and compresses itself a bit vertically. So you lose some rows of pixels, two of which are across my chat windows.

I've learned to live with it because I can still read the text, but you might be able to manually adjust your settings in your ini file to stretch it back out.

[Triiz]

I tried that in the past, it doesn't play nice with the game. Your clicks don't register where you clicked in game.

That only happens with some computers. There is an add-on for Windowed borderless gaming called DXWnd (https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/) that fixes it completely. The initial set up takes a few mins but after that you just Start WBG>right click WBG icon>click RunDXWND>load EQ. WBG is great once you get that fixed, superior to WinEQ2 in ever way imo.

[Menobank]

Is there no way to fix it other then windowed boarderless gaming b/c getting it set up is kinda pita

[Triiz]

Is there no way to fix it other then windowed boarderless gaming b/c getting it set up is kinda pita

If your computer is one that doesn't need DXWnd and I remember correctly you should only have to press F3 once WBG and EQ are both running.

If you need DXWnd, make a DXwnd folder in your WBG folder, and save it to there. Then run DXWnd, right click the blank white space and click "Add", then under the "Main" tab set the path for your eqgame.exe and save it. Whole thing should take less than 5 mins and once it's set up it takes 10 seconds to start in the future.

[Triiz]

Welp, I was going to re-download DXWnd and post screenshots of setting it up with WBG but apparently they have completely changed DXWnd and it's not as simple to set-up as the ~2 year old version I have. I'll see if I can find a link to the old version or mess with the settings in the new version when I get a chance.

If the computer only needs WBG without DXWnd to fix the cursor the one thing I forgot to add is when you install it you should make a folder for WBG in your EQ folder and save it there, then it should be as simple as pressing F3 or right click WBG icon>add window.