Pixelate Fonts on M1 Chip MacMini

[austieblues]

I am currently using a MacMini with M1 chip, but the fonts are so pixelated and blurred. What can I do to fix this?

I've already turned the small texture and netbook mode off.

[hhh2]

sounds like a driver thing. Is it like that on any other games?

[LaoWang27]

Same issue on m1 MacBook air 

I reported this bug few month ago but Klei didn't fix it.

https://forums.kleientertainment.com/klei-bug-tracker/dont-starve-together/low-resolution-on-apple-silicon-device-r28098/

 

[fall211]

Could anyone provide a screenshot? I'm curious because I use an M1 MacBook Pro and haven't noticed any problems.

[LaoWang27]

2 hours ago, fall211 said:

Could anyone provide a screenshot? I'm curious because I use an M1 MacBook Pro and haven't noticed any problems.

 

I run Don't Starve Together natively or using Win11 virtual machine on the same device (MacBook Air M1).

For your reference

 

M1 native

 

Win11 VM

 

comparison

[Karitha]

6 hours ago, LaoWang27 said:

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Check your game/OS resolution, it just look like a low resolution thing.

It's probably not about it but, can you check the Notebook/Laptop mode in settings? It supposed to be turned off.

[ShadowDuelist]

37 minutes ago, Karitha said:

Check your game/OS resolution, it just look like a low resolution thing.

I agree with karitha, looks like a resolution thing.

It looks exactly how my game looked for a long time when I started using a big 60 inch TV as monitor for my computer (WIN PC)
I had to mess around a lot with resolution settings until it looked "somewhat" better.

[Karitha]

56 minutes ago, ShadowDuelist said:

I had to mess around a lot with resolution settings until it looked "somewhat" better.

Exactly, also want to mention that some of  operating system (Debian in my situation) don't give correct resolution on videos. Might be a codec thing about video players or Nvidia drivers. But as I know Nvidia drivers works fine for macos (never used one, just heard)

[LaoWang27]

I sure that's a bug in SDL as my device failed to be detected

my client_log.txt:

[00:00:00]: HardwareStats:
  OS                        
    name                      Darwin
    version                   21.4.0
    platformSpecific          
    architecture              64-bit
  CPU                       
    clockSpeed                2400
    name                      Apple M1
    manufacturer              Apple M1
    numCores                  8
    features                  
  RAM                       
    megsOfRam                 16384
  GPU                       
    megsOfRam                 0
    videoModeDescription      
    name                      
    driverVersion             
    driverDate                
    refreshRate               81071088

refreshRate: 81071088 

 

And it's definitely a DS/DST bug because other games like Oxygen Not Include, Dead Cells, Hades run in high solution correctly.

What's more, DS/DST fail to recognise my xbox controller but other games can recognise normally.

So I'm sure Klei need to update SDL for their DST.

 

By the way, I never open netbook mode.

Two log files in MacOS and Win10.

You can see in MacOS, GPU cannot be recognised and resolution is very low (1440x847).

(client_log-macos-m1.txt Line36)

[00:00:00]: HardwareStats:
  OS                        
    name                      Darwin
    version                   20.2.0
    platformSpecific          
    architecture              64-bit
  CPU                       
    clockSpeed                2400
    name                      Apple M1
    manufacturer              Apple M1
    numCores                  8
    features                  
  RAM                       
    megsOfRam                 16384
  GPU                       
    megsOfRam                 0
    videoModeDescription      
    name                      
    driverVersion             
    driverDate                
    refreshRate               221012192

[00:00:00]: cGame::InitializeOnMainThread
[00:00:00]: WindowManager::Initialize
[00:00:00]: Creating window with size 1440x847 at 0x53

 

But in Win10 virtual machine, resolution is normal (2876x1690).

(client_log-win10-arm64.txt  Line 57)

[00:00:00]: HardwareStats:
  OS                        
    name                      Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview
    version                   10.0.20231
    architecture              ARM 64 位处理器
    platformSpecific          SP 0.0
  CPU                       
    numCores                  1
    features                  SSE,SSE2,SSE3,SSSE3,SSE41
    name                      
    manufacturer              A
    clockSpeed                1000
  RAM                       
    megsOfRam                 0
  GPU                       
    name                      Parallels Display Adapter (WDDM)
    driverDate                20201216000000.000000-000
    megsOfRam                 2045
    refreshRate               60
    videoModeDescription      2880 x 1800 x 4294967296 种颜色
    driverVersion             16.3.0.50385

[00:00:00]: THREAD - started 'AsynTextureLoadthread' (4276)
[00:00:00]: cGame::InitializeOnMainThread
[00:00:00]: THREAD - started 'AsynTextureLoadthread' (4340)
[00:00:00]: WindowManager::Initialize
[00:00:00]: CreateWindow: Requesting 2876,1690 - 5/6/5 - -1/-1/-1 - 0
[00:00:00]: CreateEGLContext: 12 configs found

 

My display resolution is about 2k.

[Captain_Rage]

What if you retain and use the native resolution of your monitor for the game but run it in windowed mode instead? Does it still cover the full screen with rescaled fonts or does it look as it should?

→ Try running the game in windowed mode with different resolutions.

[LaoWang27]

1 hour ago, Captain_Rage said:

What if you retain and use the native resolution of your monitor for the game but run it in windowed mode instead? Does it still cover the full screen with rescaled fonts or does it look as it should?

→ Try running the game in windowed mode with different resolutions.

Window mode is blur, but fullscreen mode resolution is normal. However, in fullscreen mode my cursor is very small and too hard to drag.

(Besides, as a modder, when debugging my mod I don't want to be in fullscreen mode, because fullscreen mode influence my coding efficiency.)

[austieblues]

I'm using a 4k display and use Apple's HiDPI to make it look like 1080p, is there any possibility that the problem is related to this?

[LaoWang27]

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Again, this low resolution bug only appears in the Don't Starve/Don't Starve Together, not in any other games like Oxygen Not Include, Dead Cells, Hades, etc.

1 minute ago, austieblues said:

I'm using a 4k display and use Apple's HiDPI to make it look like 1080p, is there any possibility related to this?

It's not a display problem. If you use PD17 or other softwares to run Windows 10/11 virtual machine on M1 MacMini, and then install Don't Starve Together in the Windows system, you will get a normal high resolution.

Obviously a bug in this game. I don't understand why Klei don't fix it.

[austieblues]

5 minutes ago, LaoWang27 said:

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Again, this low resolution bug only appears in the Don't Starve/Don't Starve Together, not in any other games like Oxygen Not Include, Dead Cells, Hades, etc.

It's not a display problem. If you use PD17 or other softwares to run Windows 10/11 virtual machine on M1 MacMini, and then install Don't Starve Together in the Windows system, you will get a normal high resolution.

Obviously a bug in this game. I don't understand why Klei don't fix it.