Questions tagged [scaling]
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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 ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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Is it possible to scale specific apps on Windows 10?
We know that with the Windows 10 feature Display Scaling is possible to change the size of text, apps and icons.
Once you set a value, this is applied to ALL texts, apps and icons.
I just want to set ...
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How to disable GPU scaling on Windows when drivers provide no such option
Alternative questions:
Disabling screen stretch under lower resolutions on Windows.
Force matching screen resolution to display pixels 1:1.
Full story: quite often (especially for older apps) ...
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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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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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Windows 7 Incorrect Scaling
I ran into a problem the second after installing Windows 7 a few months ago, but it only affected a few applications at the time, so I ignored it. Now an increasing number of applications behave the ...
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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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Are there any tools to scale/magnify a given window or application?
I recently purchased a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, which sports a high-dpi 13" screen with a resolution of 3200x1800, running under Win8.1.
The issue I sometimes face is that some applications will not scale ...
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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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Overriding High DPI Scaling from the Command Line
I am compiling and building an OpenCV app on Windows 10, which shows some images.
I want to overrride the high DPI scaling behavior and set it to "Application".
I can do this fine on the .exe file ...
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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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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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Set Scaling of individual applications in Windows
I occurs to be that I want any app I'm not looking at to be scaled down (to say 100%), but the one in focus to be scaled up (to 200%). This would both make maximal use of my hi-res laptop screen for ...
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What does "Disable Display Scaling on High DPI Settings" on Windows 10 mean?
When checked in the compatibility properties for a shortcut, I assume this means that "Display Scaling" is disabled when there are "High DPI Settings." Fine, but my questions are:
What exactly is ...
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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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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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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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Monitors with different pixel sizes
I have several monitors with different pixel sizes (that is, size of individual pixels; not resolution). This means that when I put them next to each other and move the mouse between them, it's not ...
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Force games stretch into full screen in lower resolution?
I am playing Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition on Windows 7. I can't run with my max resolution (1680x1050) because my video card doesn't have enough power to support 60 fps (ATI Radeon HD2600 Pro) so I ...
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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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How to fix scaling on external monitor
i cannot figure out how to fix scaling on my external monitor. I have connected to it via HDMI. I'm running windows 10. The content doesn't fit correctly on it.
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Only Maintain Display Scaling in Intel graphics control panel
I want to scale my display for 4:3, but in intel graphics control panel i have only Maintain Display Scaling and in Nvidia control panel i dont have display tab.
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How can I ...
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command for disable display scaling
I know you can disable the display scaling factor by right clicking an .exe file and then going to the Compatibility tab, but I need a way to launch and app from terminal or .bat file with either ...
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