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If you prefer to find the game data folder at some other location, the simplest solution is to create an alias for <code>/users/{your username}/.config/VintagestoryData</code> and then drag that alias to the new location. | If you prefer to find the game data folder at some other location, the simplest solution is to create an alias for <code>/users/{your username}/.config/VintagestoryData</code> and then drag that alias to the new location. | ||
== Retina displays == | |||
All or most modern Macs have very high resolution Retina displays, and the desktop resolution is downscaled so that text and graphics do not look too tiny. For example, a Macbook Air can have an actual display resolution of 2560 x 1600, but the desktop resolution by default will be 1680 x 1050. | |||
On a fresh installation of the game on macOS, Vintage Story will make an initial guess at a reasonable scaling factor for the in-game GUI, including the main menu and the Settings menu. On Retina displays, the game can sometimes guess wrong and choose an initial GUI scaling which is uncomfortably large, it might even cause some of the Settings menu tabs and buttons to be off-screen making it difficult to adjust the GUI scaling to something better. To fix this, exit the game, go to the [[Installing_the_game_on_MacOS#Game_data_folder|data folder]], and edit the <code>clientsettings.json</code> file in a decent text editor such as ''Notepad++'', ''Brackets'', or ''Sublime Text'' (but not TextEdit, that one writes in rtf format which will mess things up)! Search for the `"guiScale": ` setting and set it to a lower value, like 1.0 or 0.75. | |||
== Installation on macOS with Intel silicon == | == Installation on macOS with Intel silicon == | ||
