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Jagged/bad quality resolution after attaching second monitor

I have a 2560 x 1440, 144 Hz monitor and a 3840 x 2160, 144 Hz monitor. I use a Geforce RTX 4070 TI. The monitor with the lower resolution used to provide good quality when it was combined with a full ...
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1 vote
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How to select text scale of > 175% on a 3840 x 1100 secondary monitor?

I have a Windows 10 Version 22H2 (build 19045.3324) laptop with 3 monitors: The primary builtin monitor, 3840 x 2162, 16.5" A secondary builtin ScreenPad monitor, 3840 x 1100, 14" An ...
dbc's user avatar
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7 votes
2 answers
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Windows 10 Multiple 4K Displays - All Windows Move To Primary Monitor On Resume BUT ONLY When Text Scaling Not Set To 100%

I've got a really odd problem that I can't seem to get to the bottom of. Here's the setup: Dell XPS 13 9380 Intel UHD Graphics 620 Windows 10 18363.592 Dell WD19TB Dock XPS 13 connected via ...
James Law's user avatar
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2 votes
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Individual "Custom Scaling" per monitor in Windows 10 (1809)?

I am a happy Windows 10 user. Now I got a new 13 inch laptop that has a 1920 x 1080 resolution and the pixels are tiny. I could even live with those tiny pixels if I would not be using it with an ...
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1 answer
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Change Display Scaling on Main Monitor via Batch

I followed this guide: Is it possible to change display scaling via command line? which works, but only for my secondary monitor which is set as monitor 1 and the main is monitor 2 in Windows. I was ...
Atif's user avatar
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12 votes
2 answers
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Is it possible to change display scaling via command line?

I've got a laptop with a 2560 x 1440 display, connected to 2 external 1080p monitors. The scaling is fine normally, with the native monitor at 125% and the 1080p monitors at 100%, but when I undock ...
Justin's user avatar
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3 votes
0 answers
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Windows 10 monitor scaling blurry

Circumstances Windows 10 Version 1709 x64 One 4K (27") and one 2K (27") monitor Nvidia 1050 TI Feel free to ask for more information, if you need them. The Problem Everything works fine if I don't ...
MetaColon's user avatar
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3 votes
1 answer
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Windows 10 scaling keeps changing

During a typical day I move from my desk to meeting rooms and back several times a day. Every time I dock or un-dock the scaling of apps will change and the fonts and windows will become large. If I ...
MikeKulls's user avatar
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6 votes
3 answers
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How to change screen's DPI scaling automatically when switching to multi-monitor setup?

I have a 14" 1920×1080 laptop and a 24" 1920×1200 screen. The pixel density difference is huge. When I'm using the large screen as a main one and laptop as an additional screen, I'd like ...
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5 votes
1 answer
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On Windows 10, why are some programs not scaling on second monitor?

Per the 2 screenshots below, Adobe Acrobat DC and Internet Explorer failed to scale correctly on my second monitor because the menus are too big. Under Settings > System > Display, I cannot ...
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Windows 10: Is it possible to control the display scaling (typically a monitor based setting) specific to a window?

I've got some PC displays with wildly varying DPI's. I have a typical 27" 2560x1440 which is 107 PPI and I have hooked up a 324 PPI iPad3 (sub 10", 2048x1536) screen converted to displayport with an ...
Steven Lu's user avatar
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28 votes
4 answers
33k views

Separate custom scaling levels for each display in Windows 10

I want to set a different custom scaling level for each of my 2 monitors. The "recommended" scaling for my laptop display is 150%, while 100% scaling is recommended for my external monitor. ...
Takaia's user avatar
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1 vote
0 answers
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Windows 10: Run certain applications at a different scaling level

I bought a 24" 4k/UltraHD monitor a while ago and used it with Windows 8.1 at 200% scaling. With most modern applications I use, the scaling worked fine and the crisp text was a blessing for my eyes. ...
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2 answers
9k views

How to choose one scaling level for all displays in windows 10

In Windows 10, one selects scaling level for each monitor separately. In Windows 8.1, you could disable that by checking Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays (screenshot in this ...
Jonathan's user avatar
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Upscaling or stretch resolution to fit tv screen on Windows 10

I have a laptop with an AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4500 graphics card that output a maximum resolution of 1366 x 768. On Windows 8 I used to use AMD Catalyst's scaling option to make the HDMI output fit ...
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0 votes
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Cannot completely disable DPI scaling

I have an old (1995 old) image program that needs to display high-resolution images. I tried different settings, but I always get one of the following effects: Display at 200% scale, run program ...
Mark Jeronimus's user avatar
1 vote
2 answers
5k views

Changing Display Resolution of Surface Pro 3 when Docked/Undocked

I recently got a Surface Pro 3 for work. I have it connected with two external monitors and and using the Surface in the dock as a third monitor. The monitors are set for 1920x1080 and text is ...
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0 votes
1 answer
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Windows 7 with a 7" tertiary monitor [closed]

Is it possible to zoom in a single display in a multi-monitor setup on Windows 7? I will be running a single window of an application on the 7" display (a plugin panel) that I'd like to be zoomed in ...
gravyface's user avatar
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0 votes
1 answer
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Display Scaling - Win 8 Control Panel

In "Control panel -> Display" there is the setting "Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays" which I disabled because i want the scaling in some monitors to be 100% (i have 2 low dpi ...
Leonardo's user avatar
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1 vote
1 answer
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Any way to prevent Firefox scaling on second monitor?

So, the background on this issue. I had two monitors. A 1080p Samsung monitor, and a 1440x900 Philips TV. On my old Radeon HD 5770, I connected the monitor via HDMI and the TV via VGA and set both to ...
Macha's user avatar
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2 votes
1 answer
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Strange scaling when duplicating monitors with another screen

I can't get two monitors to scale application resolutions the same way. My main monitor works normally. My second monitor however, which is set to duplicate its image onto a TV I have in my room, ...
Aerione's user avatar
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9 votes
1 answer
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Is there a way to specify separate scaling factors for multiple monitors in Windows 8.1? [duplicate]

I have a Samsung Series 7 Ultra laptop with the latest update to Windows 8.1. I am using an additional digital monitor with the same nominal resolution (1080p) as the laptop, but much larger in size (...
Alex G's user avatar
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50 votes
3 answers
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How to use different scaling for every monitor?

One of the new features in Windows 8.1 is the new "Desktop display scaling", which allows user to configure scaling per monitor. I've been trying to get this working in preview but with no success. If ...
Mikael Koskinen's user avatar