[A16 Release] No colonists tab at top

[Otter Fluff]

Hello, I have found weird bug in this new update.

The colonists tab, at the top of the screen does not show due to the resolution I have, as it always has in A15.

I play the game in a laptop, with a resolution of 1366×768. Due to me usualy typing in skype, and doing other things while playing, I have it in full windowed mode, which limits me to 1366×745. In A15, with this resolution, I could always see the colonists tab. Now, in A16, the colonist tab is only shown if I use fullscreen, or have it in windowed mode with 4 fixed resolutions, them being 1366×768, 1360×768, 1280×768 and 1024×768. No other custom resolution shows the colonists tab at top. There are no log errors, nor any ingame savefile bugs, just a visual one.

I have added a link as images, since the file size is above 600Kb. How I usualy play without the colonist tab showing, the resolution shown in the options, the resolution I need to be, and how the game looks like with the wrong resolution, but showing the colonists tab.

http://imgur.com/a/tonO2

[Illusion Distort]

Try disabling the development mode.

[Otter Fluff]

The issue still remains, even when I disabled dev mode.

[nccvoyager]

745 vertical pixels if below the minimum resolution of the game.
In A15 and earlier, UI elements became "squished together" as screen resolution was decreased.
As of A16, with UI scaling added, the UI element position appears to be set by the aspect ratio.
As such, some UI elements may not be shown below minimum resolution as of A16.

If you truly wish to play in Windowed mode, you can manually set the UI scale in the Preferences file to a value below 1. (0.8 for example.)
This would scale the UI down, allowing you to see all of the UI elements.
This is unsupported by Ludeon, and may cause strange issues, and will certainly cause readability issues of text.

My personal suggestion is to run the game with the -popupwindow parameter.
This will run the game in "borderless windowed" mode.
This maintains the benefits of windowed mode (quick switching between programs with alt-tab) while allowing you to play the game at full-screen resolution.

[Otter Fluff]

Hm... Seems weird that 745 is bellow the minimum. Usualy it's 1080x720 or 1280x720 the minimum, so anything above 720 would be fine. And personaly, in A15, the UI elements were fine for me. Text was readable, and none of the windows were "too large" to the point it would be annoying. That, and the difference between 768 to 745 isnt that much to force the game to close the colonists tab.

Well, I will try the -popupwindow option in Steam. I could also alt-tab whilst using fullscreen, but then I wouldnt see Skype's yellow popup in the Windows task bar in case I didnt hear the ding when someone texts me.

I did now try the -popupwindow option (didn't wish to remove the prior text), and by setting the resolution to 1360×768 I can both see the colonists tab, and access my windows taskbar. By setting it to my native resolution, 1366×768, the game acts as fullscreen and blocks my cursor from going to the windows task bar.

http://imgur.com/a/somla

[nccvoyager]

Little bit strange, that.
In either case though, in borderless windowed (or windowed fullscreen, as you are now running it) the game will act as if it is windowed, allowing the game to run properly while still showing notification area popups.
In addition, the game should be able to be run at a lower than normal horizontal resolution in width in order to allow you to see the taskbar itself.
The only downside to this is that there will be a space on both sides of the game window, as borderless windowed mode defaults to screen center.

[Tynan]

The disappear resolution will be lower in next build.

For now, please play with 768 vertical pixels, or things will be cut off.