When I open up SK it zooms in and I cant do anything. When I close it, for a second, it stays zoomed in and then it goes back to normal. I have a steam account and a normal one but they both have the same problem. I've tried adjusting the screen resolution but that didn't work. Can anyone help me?
Looks like your game runs windowed at very high resolution, so it overrides your monitor "size".
For windows:
Close Spiral Knights (if it's running).
Click on the 'Start' menu and then click on 'Run'.
Type in "regedit" and hit 'OK': this will bring up the Registry Editor. Warning: Please do not change anything else in the registry since it could cause severe problems.
Browse through the registry tree and expand to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\projectx'
Double-click each of the below registry keys (if present) and type in the corresponding value:
display_mode = 1024, 600, 32, 60
fullscreen = false
render_quality = /L/O/W
vsync_enabled = false
Close the Registry Editor and start Spiral Knights.
(you can try fullscreen = true)
For mac:
Close Spiral Knights (if it's running).
Open finder, hold down option key (alt) and click "Go" on top of the screen, in list click "Library".
Window with library will appear, go to "Preferences" folder, find there "com.apple.java.util.prefs.plist" and remove it (it will ask admin permission).
Try to run game again.
ps. "com.apple.java.util.prefs.plist" is a preferences file, which OS X creates when it needed, so as soon as you will run game again, new file with default settings will appear.
After that you can adjust resolution and other settings in game.
Hope it will work.
ps. I got that trouble once on my retina which is 2560x1600, game runs twice upscaled on retina i.e. I if choose 1280x800 it covers all my screen in windowed mode. So if I will chose 2560x1600 in windowed mode, it will be twice upscaled (5120x3200) and I wont be able to change it back, menu will be out of my screen. So the only solution was to remove prefs file. Sadly this game don't have HiDPI option.