Overview
Stop squinting. This guide will show you how to increase the UI scaling past 125%. (Windows only)
Intro
So… my eyes aren’t great and I typically play games while sitting on my couch. This means if I want to play cultist simulator, I have to pull a chair up to my Widescreen TV to be able to really read any of the text.
If you are like me, FEAR NOT, I found a way to manually increase the UI scale!
Things to consider
This is a method for changing the UI scale in a manner that was not anticipated by the game creators. This can result in general wonkiness including:
- UI elements may not display properly. This can mean elements disappear or become hidden behind other UI elements. The main issue I noticed is that the main stats at the bottom of the screen will hide underneath the turn buttons at a high enough scale.
- The in-game settings WILL NOT reflect your changes. They will only show the three original settings, 75%, 100%, and 125%. If you’d like to change your settings back to a default after manually changing them with this guide, simply adjust the slider back to an original setting.
- Some UI elements will still be tiny. For instance, the card text at the bottom of cards on the table are still unreadably small unless you zoom in.
Also this guide is for Windows only. I don’t have other systems to test it on, but some of the information still may be useful if you are good at poking around.
WARNING!
You have to make these changes with the registry editor in windows! If you’re not comfortable using regedit, PLEASE do not try this. Modifying your registry poorly can really screw your computer up.
I really can’t stress this enough. (and thats also why I’m not explaining what it is or how to find it)
Manually changing the UI scale settings in regedit
To manually change the UI scaling settings, follow these directions:
- Open regedit in windows.
- In regedit, navigate here: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareWeather FactoryCultist Simulator
- Find the registry setting named something like “ScreenCanvasSize_”. Mine was named “ScreenCanvasSize_h184800196”–i’m not sure if this is something that would change between systems.
- Double-click on it to edit the binary value.
- You should see something like “00 00 00 00 00 00 XX 40”. As far as I can tell, the XX bytes are the UI scale setting.
- Click on the second to last set of bytes (where XX is above), then press the delete button on your keyboard.
- Now type in the UI scale value you want to manually set. This is in HEX, not decimal. The default 100% value is 10. I’m not certain how the scaling works, but I don’t think it is liniear. The default values are 75% = 8, 100% = 10, and 125% = 14.
- TL;DR: to set the UI scale to “fake 150%”, type 18.
- It should now look like this: 00 00 00 00 00 00 18 40
- If it does, press ok to save the change. ***IF IT DOES NOT, PRESS CANCEL AND TRY AGAIN*** If you tried again and it still doesn’t look exactly like that, give up and don’t continue trying to modify your registry–it is not for you.
- Optional, but you should probably close regedit now to prevent accidentally modifying any other registry settings.
Now when you load cultist simulator, you should have bigger UI scaling!
Closing
That’s it. This works as of 01.30.19. It may not in the future, and hopefully Weather Factory will add this directly into the game so that it doesn’t have to!
Safety is not guaranteed.
If anyone figures out directions for getting this to work on other OSes, please let me know and I’ll add the info to the guide.
Also if you noticed an error, want more info, or want some clarification, just let me know in the comments!
(reference)
I wanted a way I can quickly change the scaling settings to something more specific, so I made a .reg file for myself. I exported the registry change to set the UI scaling to “Fake 150%” and I’m including it here for reference. You can use notepad to save this as a .reg file and double-click it to run it. This only works if the registry property names are consistent between computers (i’m not sure they are), but I’m including it here just in case:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareWeather FactoryCultist Simulator]
“ScreenCanvasSize_h184800196″=hex(4):00,00,00,00,00,00,18,40
Here are some misc notes from when I was originally modifying this registry key:
075%
ScreenCanvasSize_h184800196
00 00 00 00 00 00 08 40100%
ScreenCanvasSize_h184800196
00 00 00 00 00 00 10 40125%
ScreenCanvasSize_h184800196
00 00 00 00 00 00 14 40“fake 150%”
ScreenCanvasSize_h184800196
00 00 00 00 00 00 18 40“fake 200%”
ScreenCanvasSize_h184800196
00 00 00 00 00 00 20 40