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There are 35 replies in this Thread. The last Post () by Aldenmar Odin.
The new launcher first creates the hashes of files available that are touched by the usual update. Files that are not available should be downloaded and hashed then.
I haven't tested it yet with a fresh install, maybe there is a gap still somewhere in the logic. Would need to test that.
If you test this again I would be interested in the logs after the first start and the hashing and after you did select multiplayer. And maybe after a 2nd start of the launcher.
The font update is not based on hash... But on text strings. Like the launcher version update.
Thats the one that toggles, I remember. We probably need another solution to this.
Do you still want to include the UI Options to the launcher?
In that case that would be the solution.
I could finally test it, and the font issue seems to be fixed. Sorry for reoping this thread 
I still will update it to 0.020000 since for some reason 0.025000 does not work for me on this monitor.
I am not sure why.
Maybe its an issue with the aspect ratio. I am on 16:9. What is yours?
In theory I can adjust it to a 21:9 mode and test the values with that aswell.
Is there a way to calculate it properly? Then I could do it throughout the new launcher then.
The strange part is that i am currently running 16:9 3840x2160. Therefore the same 4k that you run.
For reasons I can not explain 0.025000 does not work, only 0.020000 does.
However, I am pretty sure that when I lowered the setting from 0.035000 to 0.025000 it used to work.
Dunno what is different now.
What about using 0 as fixed_height. As far as i could find out:
Value Meaning
> 0 The font mapper transforms this value into device units and matches it against the cell height of the available fonts.
0 The font mapper uses a default height value when it searches for a match.
< 0 The font mapper transforms this value into device units and matches its absolute value against the character height of the available fonts.
Probable the font height is then calculated by round (fixed_height * screen height). While when its bigger than 0 it defined more the cell height instead of the actual font size. As the fonts.ini contains several entries for different sizes i think its more like a visual adjustment based where the font is used and how big it shall appear (button, header, subheader, list etc.). But a value of 0.025 or 0.02 should be the same size when the same resolution is used. Could test this later with 0 and < 0 values and compare how that looks and how it changes....
I am
Display MoreI made some tests with my different screens (sorry to my wife for wasting so much time at evenings, anyway).
Anyway the fixed_height factor appears to be a relative height factor, not a fixed point size.
In practice, it seems to scale with the screen height, roughly like this:
font pixel height = fixed_height * screen height
That explains why the same fixed_height value produces much larger text at higher resolutions.
Example with fixed_height = 0.03:
at 1920x1080: 0.03 * 1080 = 32 px
at 2560x1440: 0.03 * 1440 = 43 px
at 3840x2160 (4K): 0.03 * 2160 = 65 px
So on 4K, the text becomes much larger unless fixed_height is reduced.
A practical conversion formula is:
new_fixed_height = old_fixed_height * (old_screen_height / new_screen_height)
Example:
from 1080p to 4K:
0.03 * (1080 / 2160) = 0.015
from 1440p to 4K:
0.03 * (1440 / 2160) = 0.02
This is why smaller values such as 0.02 to 0.025 are needed at 4K: the font system is effectively scaling text size by vertical resolution, so higher resolutions require a lower fixed_height value to keep the text visually similar.
So now @OP to your issue: I guess for some reason your font scales globally larger in freelancer in general, maybe you changed some system settings in the past regarding font size or maybe just a freelancer settings in the ini somewhere? Cant tell at this time.
Getting back to this topic since I am still searching for a solution that is generally working.
I simply have the feeling that fixed (small) font_heigth settings will simply produce negative results for players which still are on 1080p .
The question would be how to resolve this issue, since we obviously should not expect all players to edit ini files.
