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[kraid]

HL2 is on a newer Source engine version these days and Valve also does small updates to it, so it might not be the best candidate for comparision.

[pcman312]

The workaround I found is what others have described: have it run at a different resolution. 4k completely screws up the text, but any other resolution is at least readable. This is what I did (instead of the command line options others have mentioned):

• Start game
• Click "Options"
• Select 4th from the left (3rd from the right) tab - this is the video options tab
• Click on the top left drop down (this is the resolution option)
• Select any resolution other than the bottom one (the bottom one being 4k)
• Click rightmost button in the very bottom of the options window (Ok/Cancel/Apply)
• Wait for resolution to adjust. The text will likely look scaled wrong at this point.
• Select resolution from drop down of your choice
• Restart game

You can insert a "restart game" step in between steps 7 and 8 to make it easier to read, but is not strictly necessary.

This has worked for me. I've been using 1080 as the 1440 option scales the text in a way that makes it difficult to read (though not impossible like 4k).

[killermonkey]

Come to think of it, this might be solvable with a tweak to the UI resources (.res) files in gesource/resource

Towards the bottom of the files they define various font sizes for different resolutions. I'll look into this and post tweaked files to this thread for you 4K's to test out.

[pcman312]

Come to think of it, this might be solvable with a tweak to the UI resources (.res) files in gesource/resource

Towards the bottom of the files they define various font sizes for different resolutions. I'll look into this and post tweaked files to this thread for you 4K's to test out.

Is the code still open source? I'd love to take a look and help out if I can. I went to https://github.com/goldeneye-source/ges-code but that repo hasn't been updated in over a year.

[killermonkey]

This isn't in the code it's in the .res files in the resources directory of the mod. You already have them and can tinker at will.

[pcman312]

I found a workaround in the .res files for the options window and the server list, though there are still a few things that are scaled poorly: the "hints" that show up in game (in the top left when you join and when you die) are not sized well (either too big or too small), and the crosshairs when aiming are huge.