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Is it weird that I'm about to go full circle? Started on consoles. Switched to PC around 2010, and now I'm kind of leaning towards consoles again. Maybe it's my setup for my rig, I can not stand headphones, a smallish monitor, or a computer chair to game in anymore. I've setup myself to be able to play games on my couch with my pc, but the fact that I never own a physical copy of a game bothers me so much - as I've gotten older I cherish the physical copies of games that I have and it's nice to go back and boot up my old console and play it no problem whenever I want. Can't really say that about PC barring GOG's attempt to preserve games. Because as it stands now, at some point a game played on PC will be rendered unplayable unless you really go through some hoops to get it running right. A small example would be Fallout 3 needs a mod to properly use RAM because it was only designed for a small amount (if I remember correctly).
So while not entirely related, I have a question.
I've got a Windows 10 box hooked to my TV and you're right, it's great.
Until you end up with fonts so small they're unreadable, even with a 300% scaling on the 4k TV because it seems like every third random gaming piece of software just fucking ignore scaling.
You ever find a working solution to that?
My ass is old, and trying to do couch gaming from a PC means it's a 50/50 chance I'm either squinting and giving myself a headache or having to walk over to the tv to read whatever stupid shit some game has decided to use 8pt font for.
My solution is to simply sit closer. I only need 125% scaling.
If that's not an option for you, you can always hit WinKey++ for the hard-to-read parts. There's also Ctrl++ for browsers.
I'm not the one asked, but since i am owner of an old ass myself i'll chip in. My solution would be to reduce the desktop resolution if desktop readability is the problem. 4k is probably not the resolution you are gaming at? even if you do, you can just select a lower desktop resolution and crank it up when gaming (if the game supports scaling). other than that i can only recommend using magnification tools for the desktop and i don't think there are any solutions for games that don't bring their own scaling.
for my part, i use steams big picture mode as uion the tv, which works on any resolution.