i hope this is the right place but my ren resoultion is at the max an the font under the tank boxes is too big how do i decrease their size?

Unfortunatley, the bigger the screen res, the more that the text will sink into the box. The only way to fix this is if you decrease the res.

And if you don't have problems recognizing things in renegade why bother reducing quality just to fix the overlap. On a side note, you can reduce the font size in stylemgr.ini but I don't know exactly which setting it is.