Overview
A guide on modifying the UI scale in Civ VI for resultions which do not support in-game scaling.
File Location
Navigate to: DocumentsMy GamesSid Meier’s Civilization VI
*your file explorer should appear like the image below
AppOptions.txt
Open the AppOptions.txt file in an appropriate software (notepad) and push Ctrl+F.
*your document should appear like the image
UI
With the box open, type “UIUpscale” (excluding quotation) and the appropriate text to modify will appear.
Modification Guide Lines
Although the setting states UIUpscale it is possible to type in a negative value to down scale the UI. The default UI scale value being 1, by entering a minus value the UI will shrink as seen here; entering -0.25, the UI scale value will be modified ingame to 0.75 without requiring a resolution change. The only detriment appears to be slightly blurred text, however graphically there is no lesser quality allowing UI scaling without the lack of graphical phidelity of increasing resolution above the native.
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Please share this guide; having a lower resolution I suffered through Civ V using either largly intrusive UI or poor resolution settings and was pleased to find it was at least possible to modify the UI in Civ VI while retaining the fidelity of using a native resolution.
This helped me enjoy the game more, hope it helps others!