27" 2K Monitor but text too small

[737_800 434]

Hello everybody,

I am using a 27" 2K Monitor (recently upgraded from 24" FullHD), however I have still trouble with camera view and text size, I actuallly hoped that my new monitor will help a little. When I fly in the Fenix, it hard to read the waypoints on the ND. If I zoom in too much, I cannot see the engine instrument display. Of course I could just move the camera view little to the right, but then it looks odd to me, and taxing is weird. It there a solution for this?

[virtualstuff 750]

4 minutes ago, 737_800 said:

Hello everybody,

I am using a 27" 2K Monitor (recently upgraded from 24" FullHD), however I have still trouble with camera view and text size, I actuallly hoped that my new monitor will help a little. When I fly in the Fenix, it hard to read the waypoints on the ND. If I zoom in too much, I cannot see the engine instrument display. Of course I could just move the camera view little to the right, but then it looks odd to me, and taxing is weird. It there a solution for this?

What's you're zoom level? running a 27" 2K local here and it's fine for me personal to read... (I'm using zoom-level 50)
But on the other hand I'm using Track IR so natural to view all displays from different angles.

Edited June 24, 2022 by awf

[Fiorentoni 4,069]

I have the same display and resolution and have no problems either. Perhaps you are sitting too far away from the display?

[Fielder 3,634]

If it's not too late to send back the 27" screen, I would so. I have 2 screens on my desk, a 24" and a 32" screen. I can read everything on the 32" inch screen and nothing on the 24" screen. And the 24" is actually a bit closer. Both are 2K displays. 

First, I go bigger. Then I do a resolution increase, when  $ allow upgrading cpu, gpu, and monitor. But first priority for me was to upgrade in size. 

[David Mills 4,722]

Do like I do -- and a lot of other simmers -- buy a big screen 4K TV (mine is 75") and use that for your display. You won't have any trouble reading the text.

[virtualstuff 750]

4 minutes ago, David Mills said:

Do like I do -- and a lot of other simmers -- buy a big screen 4K TV (mine is 75") and use that for your display. You won't have any trouble reading the text.

Lol big letters nice to sim at such a big screen 😉

 

[AOB 78]

42 minutes ago, David Mills said:

Do like I do -- and a lot of other simmers -- buy a big screen 4K TV (mine is 75") and use that for your display. You won't have any trouble reading the text.

Given the length of a flight stick cord I would imagine you would stuff your eyes up by sitting too close to that monster. 😀

[Glenn Fitzpatrick 3,798]

What in-game resolution and render are you running ?

[David Mills 4,722]

1 hour ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

What in-game resolution and render are you running ?

4K with Render Scale set to 70. Settings are about halfway split between High and Ultra.

[ark 1,288]

3 hours ago, David Mills said:

Do like I do -- and a lot of other simmers -- buy a big screen 4K TV (mine is 75") and use that for your display. You won't have any trouble reading the text.

What, 75" ?!    When I was growing up a screen that size was called a drive-in movie!  😉

Al

Edited June 25, 2022 by ark

[David Mills 4,722]

My vision is very poor. I really don't have much choice. The price of these big-screen TVs has gone down tremendously in recent years. When I was growing up in the 1960s, the rule-of-thumb was that your TV should cost you about one month's pay. Today it's more like two or three days' pay. And of course today's TVs are a thousand times better. Some people object to using a TV with video games on the basis that a lot of TVs can't do a 120 or 240 refresh rate. But let's be honest: nobody is going to get 120 or 240 FPS out of MSFS anyway. I keep my frames locked to 30 and all is well using the TV with MSFS.

[vyper883 20]

If you are referring to the menus and texts in the sim, they can be adjusted in the general options settings. 

[Glenn Fitzpatrick 3,798]

I think the OP means the in cockpit display. If he does, increasing the render scaling may help.

[blueshark747 1,842]

I feel this is just an issue by design running 1440P on a 27 inch display.

Smaller denser pixels unfortunately. I personally can't sim/game in 2D on my PG278QR.

Some people prefer the denser pixels over actual size of the image, I do not.

[Glenn Fitzpatrick 3,798]

But 1440p and 1080p on a 27" screen are identical in terms of the size of things in game when flying.

Yes desktop apps are smaller - but a full screen MSFS is identical size wise when your in the cockpit.