Questions tagged [scaling]
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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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What's the state of the art in image upscaling?
I like to collect cool pics and use them as wallpapers or for other things. Often, artists publish only low-res versions, probably for fear of theft.
Example:
Now, if I want to use that as a ...
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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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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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Scaling display for Mac OSX in VMWare
I'm running Mac OSX 10.10 under VMWare 12, my monitor is a 4K 27" display - so the text is tiny.
I opened System Preference -> Display -> Scaled, but the only option available is 3840 x 2160 (my 4K ...
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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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Windows 7 cannot turn off DPI/PPI scaling for an application
I have Windows 7 with DPI scaling set to 120 DPI. It makes some problems with older applications like clipped text, blurred graphics or too big text.
I'd like to disable DPI scaling for these ...
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