Slay the Spire 2 Cards Display Wrong — Glitched, Cut Off or Blank Fixes

Cards cut off at the screen edge, text rendered black-on-black, or artwork that's pure static — card display bugs look alarming and are almost always one of four causes: resolution, scaling, the rendering driver, or a corrupted config file. Fix them in that order.

Fix 1: window mode and resolution

• In game: Settings → Video — toggle fullscreen to windowed (or borderless) and back to fullscreen. The toggle re-initializes the render target and fixes most cut-off layouts.
• Or force it: Steam launch options → --windowed --resolution 1920x1080
• Use a standard 16:9 resolution (1920×1080, 2560×1440). Stretched, ultrawide and non-standard ratios are where the card layout breaks.
• Set Windows display scaling to 100% (Settings → System → Display), then restart the game. 125%/150% scaling is the top cause of clipped card frames on laptops.

Fix 2: swap the rendering driver (garbled or blank cards)

Text gone black, art full static, cards drawn as outlines only — that's the renderer. Steam launch options, one at a time:

--rendering-driver opengl3
--rendering-driver vulkan

Test each; OpenGL and Vulkan disagree with different GPU drivers, so the winner is whichever your machine doesn't hate.

Fix 3: reset the game config

1. Close the game.
2. Press Win + R, enter %appdata%\SlayTheSpire2, press Enter.
3. Delete or rename settings.json.
4. Relaunch — the game regenerates a clean default config.

Saves are not in this file (see save locations) — only graphics and audio settings reset.

The not-a-bug case: overflowing hands

A hand wider than the screen isn't a display error — drag the hand area left and right to scroll it. It is, however, a hint: hands that big usually mean the deck needs the thinning treatment.

If nothing works

Update GPU drivers, disable any forced scaling in the GPU control panel, and unplug extra monitors — multi-display setups confuse the initial layout pass. The game is Early Access; display bugs that survive all of the above are worth reporting and usually die in the next bi-weekly patch.

Keep reading:

• Stuck on the Launch Screen
• Stutter and Performance Fixes
• The Four Core Mechanics, Explained