Questions tagged [scaling]
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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 ...
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Force an application to run in a lower resolution to native Windows 10
I'm trying to use Solid Edge ST8 on a 4k laptop. In 4K the application becomes almost unusable.
Screen shot of Solid Edge ST8 running at 4k:
When I go into the Windows settings and change the ...
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Windows 10 Display Scaling Issues
I seem to be having some issues regarding Windows 10 display scaling feature ("Change the size of text, apps, and other items: x%" x being the percentage from 100% to 300%). Currently, I've set this ...
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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. ...
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Custom scale printing in Adobe Acrobat
I have Acrobat X Pro and read
Choose File > Print.
Click Size, and choose one of the following options:
Fit Scales small pages up and large pages down to fit the paper.
Shrink Oversize Pages
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How do 1080p text and computer sources look on a 4K Display?
I've never seen a monitor that can display text in its non-native resolution without looking fuzzy. While Video, Images, and Games look decent, you can tell that scaling is occurring. Now, there are ...
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Scaling up an old dos game to fit my screen? win7
It is Oregon Trail 1.2 downloaded from myabandonware.com. The game works fine but the 4.3 aspect ratio of it makes for a tiny game window. It works straight out of the box on win7, so no dosbox needed....
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High DPI screen & Windows: how to make programs behave as on low-res screens?
I am using Windows 10 on a high resolution laptop screen. Some programs supports the high-res screen and look sharp. Some don't and look blurry, but still appear at the correct size. I'm happy with ...
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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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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 ...
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Scaling in Gimp 2.9 causes scaled object to whiten
Whenever I scale something up or down using Gimp 2.9, it causes the scaled object to whiten.
Example:
Original:
Scaled:
Is this a bug with Gimp 2.9, or a setting I have to change?
Thank you in ...
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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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How to disable frequency scaling? Intel_pstate
Heyo,
I'm trying to disable the frequency scaling of one of my CPU and set the frequency to the maximum
I tried using cpupower -c 1 frequency-set -g governor and -d 2600000 or with cpufreq-set but ...
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Windows 10 update made most of my programs big and blurry
I recently upgraded to windows 10 from windows 8.1 pro. As a result, many of my programs are scaled big and blurry. Even the default windows one like device manager. See how it is kind of fuzzy and ...
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Enforce blurry scaling on high dpi
I have a 4K 15 inch screen set with scaling on 200% with the new Windows 10 display settings (not via the old Control Panel). Of course there are some old (and also recent unfortunately) applications ...
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Nvidia Control Panel No option for GPU scaling in the drop down menu
Here are my PC specs:
CPU: Intel Core i3 2100 @3.1GHz
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 750 Ti
RAM: 8GB
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2P (rev 2.0)
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 740n (1024x768) VGA
A few days ago I had the ...
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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 ...
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Windows 10 Per-App Scaling?
I'm on a 15.6 inch 3840x2160 display, and scaling it at 150% gives me a perfect mix of lots of real estate and readable text size, but non-DPI aware apps have blurry text.
Is there any way to scale ...
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Is there a way to change the interpolation when upscaling a lower resolution on Windows with an Nvidia GPU?
Let's say I put my desktop (1920x1080 native) resolution to something custom like 480x270, which is exactly 4 times smaller than my 1080p native resolution, which SHOULD look really sharp with nearest ...
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Windows 10 default dpi settings make cmd blurry
I have recently upgraded to Windows 10 and I have noticed that my cmd console is very big and blurry. I have tried reducing text-size, but if I reduce those the desktop items become too small.
The ...
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Cannot set 1360x768 resolution for DVI connection; VGA works fine only if EDID is disabled
I have a ViewSonic VP2365WB monitor which claims to support 1360x768 resolution:
ViewSonic VP2365WB user guide, see page 16
I have a AMD HD7750 based video adapter ASUS HD7750-1GD5
I need to set my ...
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How can I scale an overlay within an ffmpeg filtercomplex?
I would like to apply a PNG overlay (watermark) to an arbitrary video file using ffmpeg. I would like the video to stay its original size (which I don't know ahead of time), and the PNG to be scaled ...
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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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Windows 8 Script / Method to Change scaling when plugging in monitor
I have a 2015 macbook pro with a retina screen running Windows 8.1. With no scaling, the UI on the retina screen is tiny.
The solution is to increase the scaling using the settings found in: Control ...
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Chrome GUI is too big as of 43.0.2357.124-1
Last night, I updated my version of Google Chrome from 43.0.2357.81-1 to 43.0.2357.124-1. The most visible change is that the UI elements are way too large. Here's a comparison with Chrome (top), ...
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Upscaling video with different filter on each side
I need scale up video from one DOS game using FFmpeg. But with Nearest-neighbor interpolation on left side and xBR filter on the other one.
Input (320x200)
Output (1280x800)
Here is a command, ...
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Inconsistent image sizing across applications
I have a 3200 x 1600, 276 ppi display, and I have noticed that images do not appear not be the same size across applications. What could be the cause of this? In the picture below, I have opened the ...
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How to turn on DPI scaling for just one monitor? [duplicate]
I have two 1920x1080p monitors. One is kinda further away on a secondary desk though. I want to increase the display scaling on that monitor, so it's more readable from the distance I'm at. How can I ...
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Windows 8 on MBPr won't scale full screen games
I run Windows 8 via Bootcamp on a 15" Macbook Pro Retina (with Nvidia GT750M). When I open any game that runs full screen, the game will typically force itself to use native resolution (2880x1800) or ...
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How to make the display NOT scaled when playing game?
My game resolution is different from my laptop display one and that makes the game scaled ugly when played.
I google around and people say I should turn off auto-scaling feature of the mornitor.
My ...
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Combine two PDFs, shrink to ~3"x4" then print back-to-back
I'm going backpacking and I need to carry two separate permits, but there is no restriction on the size. I would like to take the first page of one of the PDFs, combine it with the other one (which ...
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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 ...
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Windows 8.1 highdpi - fuzzy fonts on secondary FullHD screen in highdpi optimized apps
I just started using a laptop with a 3k (2880 x 1620) 15" display (MSI GS60 2QE).
I've hooked up my FullHD 22" display as a secondary screen and would like to use that side-by-side with the laptop.
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Host a database server with a different hosting company [closed]
I am hosting my app and database in Linode. I want to scale it by having a separate database server, but I reckon I don't need to pay $10/month for another VPS with Linode for the database server. I ...
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In a processing sketch, how I can reduce overall size for smaller screen?
I have a Processing sketch that has a size(500,800), and I want to show it, for a presentation, on a laptop that appears to allow a maximum y dimension of only 700. Please, is there an easy way to ...
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Change method / algorithm Windows uses to scale desktop wallpaper?
Note: I'm not asking how to use the various options for windows wallpaper fitting (Fill vs. Fit vs. Center etc).
What I want is to change the method windows uses to shrink an image, when you choose ...
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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 ...
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What are the differences of watching a 1080p and a 720p version of the same media on a 720p screen?
Say I have 1280x720 pixels on my screen and the current resolution is set to 1280x720 as well. What are the differences between the 1080p version and the 720p version of the same media? Is it ...
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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 ...
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How do I scale default app size smaller than "Default" in Windows 8.1?
I'm on a 1920x1080 pixel, 15.1" laptop running Windows 8.1. Some of my apps (Eclipse, SourceTree, pgAdmin, Chrome) render larger than I would like, fitting far less content than on Windows 7.
I can "...
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Can I turn off high-DPI scaling for all applications? [duplicate]
I'm on a Windows 8.1 laptop (Thinkpad T440s). For some programs to not appear blurred/scaled, I have to access the .exe properties, go to Compatibility and "Disable display scaling on high DPI ...
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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, ...
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Do Intel integrated graphics support nearest neighbor scaling?
On a MacBook Pro with Retina Display, I'd like to run Windows with exactly half the screen resolution in order to maintain 100% scaling (2880x1800 -> 1440x900). However, I've heard that if you set a ...
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App to switch between video profiles in a high-DPI laptop
I have a Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 2 Pro, which sports a high-DPI 13" 3200x1800 screen.
Since using that with normal Windows app would be impossible, it ships with "DPI scaling" in Windows set to 200%.
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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 (...
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High DPI VMWare
My display is 4k. When I run VMWare, my linux guests look like postage stamps. Sadly, none of them support HDPI scaling (Running LXDE/XFCE mainly). I'm also interested in "Unity Mode", but ...
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Avoid Blurry texts when having 150% of normal DPI (windows 8.1)
(yes, it is a common problem but the found solutions are not acceptable for me)
I am using one screen 1920 x 1080 and 125% of normal DPI is even little for me and prefer to have 150% on windows 8.1.
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Scale (or center) watermark with ffmpeg to same resolution as output file
I want to have the watermark scaled to the same resolution as the output file. How do I do this?
Alternatively, how do I center the watermark in the middle of the output instead?
Here is what I have:
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Desktop resolution does not change when game resolution changes, result black borders
I'm using Windows 8.1 on my Asus N56VZ laptop with the latest graphics drivers installed (nVidia and Intel) and am having trouble when playing games where if I change the resolution of the game to ...
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Windows Shortcut Icon Issue
I created nice, large 512x512 ICO files for use as icons for my shortcuts. However, for some reason, when I scale them up some of them just do not scale. I've lived with it for 3 months, but, last ...
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