# How to increase IDA "Output" buffer limit? **URL:** \ **Category:** IDA General\ **Created:** [May 22, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.hex-rays.com/t/how-to-increase-ida-output-buffer-limit/335 "2025-05-22T16:29:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Linck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Linck](https://community.hex-rays.com/u/Linck)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.hex-rays.com/t/how-to-increase-ida-output-buffer-limit/335/1 "2025-05-22T16:29:48Z")
When the process I’m debugging outputs a big msg, IDA is truncating its content, it only prints half the message on the Output window. Theres any option or config i could modify to increase this limit? The output window im referring is this one: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/rays_hex/original/1X/e35be43ada572d371cf87e90592455d973b54eb6.png) ---
**Author:** ![KindOne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.hex-rays.com/kindone/32/38_2.png) [@KindOne](https://community.hex-rays.com/u/KindOne)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 7:33am UTC](https://community.hex-rays.com/t/how-to-increase-ida-output-buffer-limit/335/2 "2025-05-23T07:33:00Z")
You can make it log to a file. > **[Igor’s tip of the week #73: Output window and logging – Hex Rays](https://hex-rays.com/blog/igors-tip-of-the-week-73-output-window-and-logging)** > > Output window is part of IDA’s default desktop layout and shows various messages from IDA and possibly third-party components (plugins, processor modules, ---
**Author:** ![Linck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Linck](https://community.hex-rays.com/u/Linck)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://community.hex-rays.com/t/how-to-increase-ida-output-buffer-limit/335/3 "2025-05-23T10:19:17Z")
The message is not that big to be logged to a file, and i would like to see it on the Output window. ---
**Author:** ![ilfak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.hex-rays.com/ilfak/32/49_2.png) [@ilfak](https://community.hex-rays.com/u/ilfak)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 11:00am UTC](https://community.hex-rays.com/t/how-to-increase-ida-output-buffer-limit/335/4 "2025-05-23T11:00:14Z")
Will **OUTPUT\_SCROLLBACK** in idagui.cfg help you? ---
**Author:** ![Linck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Linck](https://community.hex-rays.com/u/Linck)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://community.hex-rays.com/t/how-to-increase-ida-output-buffer-limit/335/5 "2025-05-24T00:41:19Z")
I’m not finding OUTPUT\_SCROLLBACK in idagui.cfg, im using version 9.1 Sorry if i didnt make it clear, not speak english very well, i mean something like this: If process outputs “abcdef…”, on IDA Output window its cropping the msg and showing just “abc” ---
**Author:** ![Milanek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Milanek](https://community.hex-rays.com/u/Milanek)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.hex-rays.com/t/how-to-increase-ida-output-buffer-limit/335/6 "2025-05-24T22:07:36Z")
This sounds like number of bytes / number of unicode characters problem… ---
**Author:** ![ilfak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.hex-rays.com/ilfak/32/49_2.png) [@ilfak](https://community.hex-rays.com/u/ilfak)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 6:59am UTC](https://community.hex-rays.com/t/how-to-increase-ida-output-buffer-limit/335/7 "2025-05-26T06:59:53Z")
If it is only about the message in the screenshot, there is a different explanation: when the user hides a dialog by clicking on “Do not show this message again”, the dialog is not displayed anymore, but the beginning of its message is displayed in the output window. There is no way to force IDA to display the entire dialog message in this case.