Older Eyes and Icon size

[Boat]

Well, at least I know I'm not the only one having trouble with the new game.  I'm sticking with it but I really am challenged by the smaller plane  icons and the more difficult gunnery.  I read in another thread that  switching to a lower resolution makes the icons bigger and I tried it but it only seems to make the labels bigger and the plane size remains impossibly small. I noticed the other night that at 1260x1024 I was having trouble making out the names of friendlies to give six checks.  

One thing for sure, I'll be giving up what was the long reach of the P51 for the LA -7 which seems more suited to the up close knife fight. Another LA Dweeb is born.

[jpeg]

you can increase the font size of the icons, the default is not the biggest you can have.

It's in setup somewhere

[RT]

I'm running a 22 inch monitor in 1600x1200 and I understand what you are talking about regarding plane size.  Cannot make out the attitude of the planes like I could in AH1.  Seems like at 2k out or so I cannot make out the attitude of planes.  

What we get to see now are very small objects and large plane type icon and range icons.  Don't like it.

Will keep playing in hope that I will adjust to the new scale of things.  Might have to figure out how to use the view system to magnify aircraft during air to air.  Not sure how of the best way to do that yet.

[iKo]

Dont worrie cuz the NME is having the same problem you are 8). Makes it fare

[TweetyBird]

I've been playing with different resolutions. With 600x480 and 800x600,  you can see a plane's attitude about 1.2k out. Trouble is, the radar is a mess at those resolutions. In the 600x480 resolution, you cant see the names from vox transmitions.
It also seems the plane display is larger than the target area at low reolutions, so you see tracers going through planes with no hits when in the 200-400 yard area. In ther 600-800 yard area, its actually easier to get hits at low resolutions, but of course the bullets aren't too affective from that range.