User interface almost illegible on HiDPI (“retina”) display #3492
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This also affects my 12.8" 2560x1700 Chromebook Pixel and 13.3" 3200x1800 Dell XPS 13 (2015). I have my scaling factor at 1.75 and Steam is the only application that doesn't scale for me. |
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Same on Lenove Yoga 2 Pro (13.3" QHD 3200x1800) |
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I'm also seeing this on a Samsung ATVI Book 9 Plus (3200x1800) with Ubuntu 14.10 64-bit. |
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+1 on Macbook Retina 13" |
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Ditto on a Dell Venue 11 Pro (10.8" 1080p; around 200dpi) under Gnome 3.14. doable but barely. |
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+1 for HiDPI support - these screens are becoming increasingly common! |
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+1 - on my Lenovo Y50-70. |
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+1 on x1 carbon |
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+1 on Asus ux303 |
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+1 |
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While I'm guilty of the same, I must say adding +1s to this bug report (as with any other) will probably accomplish nothing. We know this is a problem with steam on any HiDPI screen, and Valve probably has the numbers (or better numbers, rather) for exactly how many users have this setup through steam's own hardware reporting mechanism. We would just have to wait till users of such screens gather critical mass and bubble to the top of Valve's priorities :) |
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+1 👍 |
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+1 |
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+1 for Thinkpad T540P with a 2880x1600 screen on Ubuntu 14.10 |
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yes +1 ... i too would love some sort of easy dpi switch. 15" @_2880x1800_ xrandr --output DP-2 --auto --scale .5x.5 lol .... . . . there has to be a better way... :( very painful |
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The interface is very scalable as is (if you look at the themes folder, the entire UI is comprised of different numerical parameters for window and font sizes), and it'd only take someone like an hour or two of work to go through it trial and error and find good hiDPI settings that could then be shared. Granted, that's a lot more work than being able to just say, e.g., scale interface 1.5x. |
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@axfelix : +1 #found the spot to do the skins thing.. going to play with making the 'air theme' hiDPI if its not already. ~/.local/share/Steam/skins/ |
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+1 |
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Does it scale properly on osx? |
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yes, but the implementation details on osx will be completely different than on linux. |
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+1! |
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XPS 15 9530 here, too. The client hurts my eyes. I started to look for good themes with larger fonts, but it looks like there is no decent HiDPI theme available. So, 👍 for a real HiDPI steam client! |
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+1 |
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+1 👍 |
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+1 X1 Carbon |
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+1 Razer Blade 14 2015 QHD+ |
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+1 Dell XPS 13 (2015) |
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There's this but it's very kludgy; if you put the font up too high it breaks a lot of the other UI elements: https://gist.github.com/guymann/9690913 |
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Wow, Steam is now actually usable on 4k. I hope next time this kind of enormous issue will not take years... |
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High DPI was not detected automatically here on my 4K setup in GNU/Linux. I have OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with Linux kernel 4.14.14, Xorg 1.10.6, Mesa 17.3.3, KDE Plasma 5.11.5 desktop. And runingXorg/xdpyinfo does properly report DPI as "resolution: 193x194 dots per inch" |
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Does it work on macOS now? Can't check myself right now. |
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Finally. Auto-detection works fine (Ubuntu 17.04, 4K monitor, xdpyinfo actually reports 96x96). The settings window positioning is wonky, though. |
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@dgutov Since when? |
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@umpirsky What since when? |
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@dgutov It works fine on Ubuntu 17.04, 4K monitor, I tried a month ago and it didn't work. Will try again soon. |
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Read the comments here. It's the new beta. |
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Tested on Fedora 27, Gnome 3.26.2, Dell XPS 15 9560 internal display @ 3840 x 2160 with 200% scaling. Beta client works great with no tweaks required! |
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I'm running the RPMFusion build of Steam btw |
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Dell XPS 9360 at 3200x1800, 1.5x scaling via KDE and kwin 5.11.5. Arch/Manjaro 64-bit. Beta client does not automatically scale, has to be passed Window resizing does not work. Initially you can resize the window but it bounces back to the original dimensions when you release the mouse button. It is possible to successfully resize it sometimes, though very rarely after many failed attempts. After maximizing and then restoring the window it returns to its previous size, but it no longer displays the resize handle mouse cursor when you hover near the edges of it. Ignoring that and pressing anyway as if they were there seems to work, though it's difficult to place the cursor well without any visual hints. The little dotted triangle "grab me" symbol down at the very bottom right of the window goes missing. Minimizing and restoring brings it back. Enabling the "Resize Window" kwin desktop effect fixes resizing at the desktop-wide cost of visuals.
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XPS 9530, 3200x1800. It does not scale automatically. Launching it as "GDK_SCALE=2 steam" works beautifully; all the render seems fine, with nicely rendered letters. Under Cinnamon there is no problem with resizing the window, but when trying to change its position goes back to nearly where it was before. The window looks fine when maximized. |
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On the latest beta version of the Steam Client, this bug is fixed for me (On both Ubuntu 17.10 and Windows 10). |
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Holy crap! I can actually read the UI. I almost forgot that the fuzzy lines
on the UI was actually text!
There's some issues with moving and resizing, but I'll take that over
tearing my eyeball to read the text.
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On the latest beta version of the Steam Client, this bug is fixed for me
(On both Ubuntu 17.10 and Windows 10).
Steam Client build: jan 25 2018, at 21:25:07
Steam API: v1080
Steam package versions: 1516948201
My screen configuration 3840x2160 with 200% scaling set in Gnome control
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Hey you suckers, don't support retina in 2018? WTF? |
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I can confirm that the interface scales in the latest builds when setting the |
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I am really happy that things have moved. Now I can have 2x scaling on my HiDPI screen. That is way better than no scaling at all, but I would love to see non-integer scaling values, such as 1.5x, which I use on my desktop. |
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@adomas187 if they are using GTK to do the scaling (which I assume because they are using the GTK settings for it) the deficiency is in GTK itself (which doesn't support fractional scaling, at least not yet). |
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GTK fractional scaling is being worked on and looks like it will be supported soon: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765011 |
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@realh but this is for Wayland component, I'm unsure if Steam will soon benefit from it as it's only running on Xorg... @Oblomov well a lot of other GTK apps scales depending on "Force Fonts DPI" settings on KDE Plasma on my machine. I have set 144 value, which would be 1.5x of scaling, and such apps as Chromium, Firefox, Lutris and so on, scales as expected. Just Steam scales to 2x. As far as I know Steam does not use GTK (?), but I'm unsure about that. I was reading that Steam is using "VGUI": https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/VGUI_Documentation So they are extending VGUI features to support HiDPi screens and I hope they will support this fractional scaling, as a lot of users would benefit from it, not only on MacOS or Linux. |
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Latest beta release now needs the setting Interface -> Enlarge text and icons based on monitor size (requires restart) for this to work, it's not a regression :) |
Omg thanks! It finally worked for me. However I still have to manually pass GDK-SCALE=2 parameter, "gamer@bobik:~$ GDK_SCALE=2 steam" |
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Hm, seems to be broken again with the latest update? |
Ubuntu 16.04, works fine for me. For those on Linux: |
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Ah, I see, it needs both the environment variable and the Interface setting mentioned by @tjbp, otherwise |
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The 2018-03-21 Steam stable client update added the initial cross-platform support for scaling the client's interface. The 2018-03-26 chaser update also added a UI setting to enable / disable the new behavior on Linux. As noted in previous comments, in order to use this feature, go to In addition to the checkbox, if the scaling logic does not behave as expected, the logic can be overridden with the Follow up issues and suggestions regarding the HiDPI scaling of steam should be tracked separately from this issue report. |
and others
Hello,
I've recently acquired a Dell XPS 15 laptop sporting a 3200x1800 display, with an effective resolution of 234 DPI. The default skin in Steam has fixed-pixel sizing for elements and text, leading to an UI which is almost illegible. I'm aware of patches and hacks that can be used to (re)size the default skin elements into something more legible, but native support for HiDPI screens would be better.
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