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Posted April 13, 2014
Hi,

I just bought RCT2 as I saw it was on sale and thought I'd buy it as I've long since lost my original box and disc.

but I'm really struggling to play the game, the icons are small but the main problem is the text, even with my reading glasses on, I almost need a magnifying glass to read the text!!

I've tried changing resolutions (I play in windowed mode) but that doesn't change much.

is there any way of bumping up the font size?
Posted April 13, 2014
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Stevezen: Hi,

I just bought RCT2 as I saw it was on sale and thought I'd buy it as I've long since lost my original box and disc.

but I'm really struggling to play the game, the icons are small but the main problem is the text, even with my reading glasses on, I almost need a magnifying glass to read the text!!

I've tried changing resolutions (I play in windowed mode) but that doesn't change much.

is there any way of bumping up the font size?
How about playing in full screen instead? In windowed mode resolution changes only the window size, but in full screen the content of this window gets blown up to fill the screen, making everything quite big at lower resolutions.

Or run with your magnifier idea, there is a tool of that name in windows. Set your game window to no more than half the size of your screen, magnifier to full screen and 200%. Its not perfect, but unless someone shows up with a hack to make the game bigger it helps, use this myself on some tiny old windows games.
Posted April 13, 2014
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Stevezen: Hi,

I just bought RCT2 as I saw it was on sale and thought I'd buy it as I've long since lost my original box and disc.

but I'm really struggling to play the game, the icons are small but the main problem is the text, even with my reading glasses on, I almost need a magnifying glass to read the text!!

I've tried changing resolutions (I play in windowed mode) but that doesn't change much.

is there any way of bumping up the font size?
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flickas: How about playing in full screen instead? In windowed mode resolution changes only the window size, but in full screen the content of this window gets blown up to fill the screen, making everything quite big at lower resolutions.

Or run with your magnifier idea, there is a tool of that name in windows. Set your game window to no more than half the size of your screen, magnifier to full screen and 200%. Its not perfect, but unless someone shows up with a hack to make the game bigger it helps, use this myself on some tiny old windows games.
Thanks.

I can't really run it full screen because when my main monitor changes resolution it messes up my 2nd monitor. :(
Posted April 13, 2014
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flickas: Or run with your magnifier idea, there is a tool of that name in windows. Set your game window to no more than half the size of your screen, magnifier to full screen and 200%. Its not perfect, but unless someone shows up with a hack to make the game bigger it helps, use this myself on some tiny old windows games.
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Stevezen: Thanks.

I can't really run it full screen because when my main monitor changes resolution it messes up my 2nd monitor. :(
The second version shouldn't mess with your resolution, full screen for the magnifier just means cover it all (no idea if you get both screens bigger then, I hope that can be set somewhere)
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