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Feb 19^th, 2012 at 3:58pm

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Hi Guys and Gals.
Just got a much larger monitor (old one expired) and am finding the Red Lettering in the top left of the screen, when I press Shift+Z is very hard to read as it's too small. Doesn't happen in FS9.
Any thoughts?

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Reply #1 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 7:18pm

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Not sure if it will make a difference in the sim, but maybe changing your DPI setting a few notches might help.

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Reply #2 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 10:16pm

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try lowering you're FS's screen reolution. The higher it is, the smaller things look. Note, do it in FS, not your computer, and also this will affect EVRYTHING in FS. (It should also increase your fps as well Wink

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Reply #3 - Feb 20^th, 2012 at 6:31am

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Thanks for the replies Guys.
I tried changing the resolution to a lower value but it didn't realy make a great deal of difference. Also, it seems a shame to have a Full HD 1080p monitor just to turn the reso. down.
Haven't tried the DPI suggestion but I can't understand why the same lettering in FS9 is proportionately larger on the bigger screen, when in FSX the lettering appears to be the same size as on my old tiny monitor? Undecided

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Reply #4 - Feb 20^th, 2012 at 1:48pm

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What size is the monitor?

Go to Control Panel > Appearance & Personalization > Display and see what you are set at. Most Win7 systems will be set at "Smaller" and it should also show Smaller as "100% (default)".

After that on the left select adjust screen resolution and make sure that your resolution is set to the monitor's recommended resolution.

After that go into your Nvidia control panel and the FSX graphics settings and make sure that the resolution is the same setting in all places.

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Reply #5 - Feb 20^th, 2012 at 1:52pm

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Also if you have a widescreen monitor and your old one was not then in your fsx.cfg file there is a setting that is something like

widescreen=false

change this it true if you have a widescreen now.

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Reply #6 - Feb 20^th, 2012 at 7:56pm

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idahosurge wrote on Feb 20^th, 2012 at 1:52pm:

Also if you have a widescreen monitor and your old one was not then in your fsx.cfg file there is a setting that is something like

widescreen=false

change this it true if you have a widescreen now.

Idahosurge, your on the right track, Zaphod, if you changed monitors, maybe letting the sim rewrite the FSX.cfg might correct the text.

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Reply #7 - Feb 21^st, 2012 at 7:26am

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Thanks again for the replies.
I've tried all the above suggestions but the text still remains very small.
I've found these lines in the FSX.CFG but none seem to relate to size but I assume they control the position of the text on the screen

[TextInfo.1]
AirSpeed=1,5
Altitude=1,3
Heading=1,4
Latitude=1,1
Longitude=1,2
WindDirectionAndSpeed=1,6

Hey ho. Perhaps some stronger glasses will help. Grin

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PS.
Couldn't find any entry in the CFG regarding "widescreen."

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Reply #8 - Feb 21^st, 2012 at 4:28pm

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Zaphod wrote on Feb 21^st, 2012 at 7:26am:

PS.
Couldn't find any entry in the CFG regarding "widescreen."

Set "WideViewAspect" under [Display] to True.

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Reply #9 - Feb 22^nd, 2012 at 10:02am

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Thanks for the suggestion FoxThree. I changed the value from False to True but it didn't make any difference.

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