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I made two very nice screenshots today (everyone if welcome to enlarge them to get the idea of just how big the text is).

I mean, it's difficult to read text this large.

And I really can't see where I'm walking, much less shooting.

Right now I'm thinking about playing in a 640x480 window.

PingoSuSE wrote:

what is your video mode set in game (setup->system->graphic)? [...]

It's custom resolution almost as large as my screen (I play in a window).
[...]
and now it's
seta r_customheight "1000"
seta r_customwidth "1800"

eXtr33m wrote:

Higher resolution -> smaller text.
[...]

Anyway, from my experience: higher resolution -> larger text.

Pirat wrote:

natirips wrote:

Code:

# ddccontrol -p
ddccontrol version 0.4.2
&#91;...&#93;
No monitor supporting DDC/CI available.
If your graphics card need it, please check all the required kernel modules are loaded (i2c-dev, and your framebuffer driver).
# lsmod|grep i2c
i2c_nforce2             5280  0 
i2c_core               15819  2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2
nati-desk:/home/natirips#
 

So, 0 points for ddccontrol. :(

Quote: "please check all the required kernel modules are loaded (i2c-dev,"

*slap*, *slap* :-)

To put it bluntly:

natirips wrote:

Code:

# lsmod|grep i2c
i2c_nforce2             5280  0 
i2c_core               15819  2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2
nati-desk:/home/natirips#
 

Now, if only I could figure out how ddccontrol works and exactly how it could possibly help me more than the screen's own controls.

[...]
Btw, I'm working on my own solution for the big font. Hopefully wurst will allow me to use this kind of hack on his serwer.

Code:

seta cg_teamChatTime "1"
seta cg_msgTime "1"
seta cg_chatTime "1"

And also

Code:

natirips@nati-desk:~/bin$ cat urt
#!/bin/bash
lxterminal --geometry=50x57 -t urt-output -e urt-play
natirips@nati-desk:~/bin$ cat urt-play 
xgamma -gamma 2
mv ~/.asoundrc ~/.asoundrc-urtt
/razno/igre/UrbanTerror/ioUrbanTerror.x86_64 +set fs_homepath ~/.urt +set ttycon 0 $* 2>&amp;1 | urt-izlaz-boja
xgamma -gamma 1
mv ~/.asoundrc-urtt ~/.asoundrc
natirips@nati-desk:~/bin$ 
 

[...]

Author:	Pirat [ 03.07.12 ]
Post subject:	Re: how to reduce chat font size?
natirips wrote: I made two very nice screenshots today (everyone if welcome to enlarge them to get the idea of just how big the text is). I mean, it's difficult to read text this large. And I really can't see where I'm walking, much less shooting. I just shortly entered UrT (first time in weeks), just to see this effect "live", as my resolution is even a bit smaller (1680x1050) (but see below). I have to say: It's not really a problem for me, but YMMV. :-} But of course, I also want a more configurable text output system. Thanks, closed-source software! natirips wrote: Right now I'm thinking about playing in a 640x480 window. That wouldn't really help. I just tried out UrT in native (1680x1050) and in VGA (640x480) resolution, and the font has not a fixed size in pixels, but gets scaled (at least horizontally, but it looked as if it would also keep the aspect ratio), so changing the resolution won't help. You can only try to get used to it. So the effect that the font is now disturbing on the TFT, while it was not on the CRT, is not (directly) caused by the font size, but instead of the different image quality you get with a TFT (if the quality is considered better or worse depends on the individual). .

Author:	natirips [ 03.07.12 ]
Post subject:	Re: how to reduce chat font size?
I did some experimenting and the text size seems to be proportional to the size of the window. Same text, different window size: 450x250: Attachment: shot0110.jpg 1800x1000: Attachment: shot0111l.jpg So it seems that technically speaking I can see better through the larger text because of larger gaps around the letters, but practically speaking the larger text is distracting me. Edit: And it's not the LCD/CRT problem, I first played UrT on a laptop, then on CRT, and now again on LCD.

Author:	Pirat [ 03.07.12 ]
Post subject:	Re: how to reduce chat font size?
natirips wrote: PingoSuSE wrote: what is your video mode set in game (setup->system->graphic)? [...] It's custom resolution almost as large as my screen (I play in a window). [...] and now it's seta r_customheight "1000" seta r_customwidth "1800" Aaah, that's why the screenshots didn't have exactly 16:10 or 16:9 aspect ratio! natirips wrote: eXtr33m wrote: Higher resolution -> smaller text. [...] Anyway, from my experience: higher resolution -> larger text. Then that software is buggy (or inaccurate). natirips wrote: Pirat wrote: natirips wrote: Code: # ddccontrol -p ddccontrol version 0.4.2 [...] No monitor supporting DDC/CI available. If your graphics card need it, please check all the required kernel modules are loaded (i2c-dev, and your framebuffer driver). # lsmod\|grep i2c i2c_nforce2 5280 0 i2c_core 15819 2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2 nati-desk:/home/natirips# So, 0 points for ddccontrol. :( Quote: "please check all the required kernel modules are loaded (i2c-dev," slap, slap :-) To put it bluntly: natirips wrote: Code: # lsmod\|grep i2c i2c_nforce2 5280 0 i2c_core 15819 2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2 nati-desk:/home/natirips# oO To put it even more bluntly: Code: piratsPC# lsmod\|grep i2c i2c_dev 13109 0 i2c_piix4 12536 0 i2c_core 23876 3 i2c_dev,nvidia,i2c_piix4 piratsPC# Spoiler: Note the first line of output. \|-) .

Author:	natirips [ 03.07.12 ]
Post subject:	Re: how to reduce chat font size?
Now, if only I could figure out how ddccontrol works and exactly how it could possibly help me more than the screen's own controls.

Author:	Pirat [ 03.07.12 ]
Post subject:	Re: how to reduce chat font size?
natirips wrote: Now, if only I could figure out how ddccontrol works and exactly how it could possibly help me more than the screen's own controls. The interfaces exposed via OSD and via DDC are not necessarily the same. I was hoping that the DDC interface would allow more control. For instance, the OSD's displayed value of 0 might actually represent an actual value of 20, and with ddccontrol, you could set the actual value to 0. Or maybe there's a half-brightness flag only accessible by ddccontrol etc.

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Author:	eXtr33m [ 03.07.12 ]
Post subject:	Re: how to reduce chat font size?
Woot! Can you describe what's the program for?? I always had an idea of parsing urt output for misceleanous reasons... Btw. this might sound weird, but me and friend of mine were looking at problem relating use of ALSA and PulseAudio in games. The difference is in sound handling, PA using timer-based and ALSA using iterrupt-driven writing into buffer. Result with using PA is not much.. about 5 ms less audio delay but I haven't measured it, just the feeling.

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Author:	natirips [ 03.07.12 ]
Post subject:	Re: how to reduce chat font size?
xgamma needs to be there as UrT's own gamma settings do nothing whatsoever in windowed mode. as for .asoundrc, my alsa is actually configured to play through OSS, the file is there most of the time so I don't forget about it when I run some few exotic rarely-used programs; my UrT uses OSS, but it will use ALSA if it finds the file being there and thus use needless wrapping of audio library. And the hacking part is me using a terminal to display messages outside the UrT window thus making things easier to see. Speaking of which, can anyone (who's familiar with 256 colors in a terminal) find the problem here? Attachment: urt-izlaz-boja.c