Question / Help OBS size issues?

[Deleted member 56997]

Hi, all. I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question. I just downloaded OBS, I've never used it before. When I open it on my laptop, the interface looks like this:

That's all compressed into an area about an inch and a half high and two inches long on my monitor, for reference; it's totally unreadable. I haven't been able to find any setting in OBS that would allow me to change font or button size or anything like that. Does anyone have any insight into why this is happening?

 

[Harold]

Fix your windows dpi settings.

 

[Deleted member 56997]

Thanks, Harold, I appreciate the prompt response. What exactly do you recommend I do to my DPI settings? "Fix" is not very specific. Do I increase my DPI? Decrease my DPI? Why am I having this problem with OBS, and not with Chrome or Word?

 

[sam686]

Maybe right click "OBS.exe", go to compatibility, and try changing this option "Disable display scaling on high DPI setting".

Or, for system wide, go to control panel, screen resolution, make text and other items smaller?

 

[Deleted member 56997]

sam686, thank you for the suggestions. I tried disabling the display scaling as you suggested; it had no apparent effect.

The problem with making text and other items smaller is that they're already miniscule. I can barely read the text on OBS as it is now, and it's too large for the buttons.

 

[sam686]

Maybe try OBS-multiplatform, a different download?

If that doesn't work, then maybe the only option is to reduce display resolution which can make everything bigger, and suffer some blurry pixelation on everything on the display.

 

[FerretBomb]

Jagganoth, that issue is caused by having DPI scaling enabled.
It can't just be disabled for OBS (per Sam's suggestion), it needs to be completely disabled at the OS level. Google for 'disable dpi scaling windows X' where X is your version of windows.

OBS was not coded with support for DPI scaling, and it's not going to be patched in on Classic. No idea if MP/Studio supports it, but dev on classic is pretty much ended aside from critical functionality-breaking bugs with no workaround.

 

[Deleted member 56997]

FerretBomb, thank you for clarifying.

I don't know if I made this clear; my complaint is not that the text isn't displaying properly on the buttons, it's that the buttons themselves are miniscule - they're sufficiently small that I am experiencing difficulty clicking on the correct one. From everything that I'm seeing it just looks like DPI scaling affects the size of displayed text but not the size of the actual interface, which is what I need to affect.

Could this problem be avoided by running at a lower screen resolution?

 

[FerretBomb]

Yes, the buttons do not scale. If you're using something like a 4K (or higher) monitor, or a very physically small 1080p monitor; they'll be ridiculously tiny. Running the monitor at a lower resolution will result in the buttons being larger.