But how silly is that? So beautiful! And at medium settings! It is interesting that Apple does application scaling seamlessly as opposed to Windows where it is still a major pain all the years after high DPI option first appeared. Those designers allow to set variable widths and heights according to the size of text to display. However, enabling this variance usually messes up any alignment of fields, buttons etc. More often than not, it is a choice between evils for a developer.
Anything with a screen size over 35 inch can be 4K, below that screen size, why bother? Personally, I rather have 2 smaller monitors 22 inch to 24 inch on my desk than one bigger sized monitor that with 4K has similar screen real estate than those 2 monitors. The division between 2 separate monitors makes you more productive.
For all those who say Mac will render 4k seamlessly apparently forget random bugs like Mac going to sleep and not waking up, not detecting the monitor, all the text and icons showing 5x the expected size and more importantly Mac not supporting older apps if they are not for the new OS as for Windows it is backward compatible.
Also an even more important note to the author. This was a complete waste of time for you to write and for me to read. Please venture into more interesting topics. This is why you should go to tech sites for tech news.
Display resolution alone is only part of the equation. Display size is just as important. Want to run 4k properly? Also, your apps are the problem, not Windows. The Windows API allows for proper scaling but since those old apps have not updated their code to take advantage of this new feature, they are the issue. I hate being put in the position of appearing to be a Windows White Knight but non-tech sites like these make it necessary.
I use Office at home 4k and work hd but when i set Outlook font sizes for home monitor Office dragged the settings across to work so it looks worse at work now. My main goal was pixel density and readability benefits similar to the screen on my Surface Pro 4 and the Retina display on my iPhone. I did find it necessary to upgrade to a much, much newer version of Adobe Acrobat for this reason, though. Message to Microsoft: it just needs to work. Get it done. However, despite these travails, the pixel density and readability improvements are so worth it.
My 48 year old eyes really appreciate it. Apple was there years ago with its retina displays, and Microsoft really needs to get serious about catching up, and fast. None of us should tolerate the eyestrain of a low pixel density display. The resolution and size is exactly 1. Perfect scaling every time.
I now have 3 of them. Reasonably priced, too. Most of our applications are custom written and have raster based graphics with customizable icon and text size for everything but even then our foray into high dpi displays below 0. The article title is misleading. The problem is not with Windows but with applications that do not support high pixel density. Windows 10 has the necesary APIs for this.
The comination of pixel density and screen size also matter for the optimum display experience. Made that transition about 18 months ago. I only ran into one issue. It was not a revenue generator for the company, so they have no plan to update it. Sounds like you need an ultrawide or multimonitor setup.
MacOS is just as bad or worse. Get a high DPI display and you will barely be able to read most of the text. Only Edge has smooth scrolling. I LIKE the real estate with a high-res monitor. No rush there.
There is a physical delineation between my workspaces. I have tried the large screens many times before, but I prefer the segmentation that my setup provides. Thanks for doing ghacks, by the way. Long time reader, 1st time commenter. A full Windows 10 reset fixed the 4k scaling issues for me. I believe it was an upgrade to they lastest Windows 10, then reset from boot, the reset in the OS.
Having used 4k monitors for both work and home for almost 4 years now,there really is no excuse not to.. Website scaling is a complete non-issue too as you can just snap a browser to the side of your screen and have it take up half the space.
The multi-tasking benefits that comes with 4k monitor s are simply undeniable. My ti handles them like a champ too, even for high end super-wide gaming. This write-up completely ignores the Windows setting for making fonts larger not related to Display Scaling and the setting to make fuzzy apps clearer on the main display introduced in v I think.
Also, most DisplayPort topology issues are due to manufacturer drivers,not Windows itself. If a program does not support, widows will scale it by force. You can see the difference in sharpness for sure. Is it worth having 4k over QHD even at 32 inch sizes? Not really. Does Win10 handle having 2 monitors of different resolutions and makes connected perfectly? Definitely not. On my very old win7 dual monitor both Full HD set up, I had no problems at all.
It even came out of sleep mode more quickly than my much newer more powerful Win10 PC. Most of these problems can be resolved by using an external manifest file and registry key. Look into preferring external manifests. This would be a registry key that globally turns the ability on, and a generic manifest you can use for all programs by dropping into the same folder as the program executable.
The file needs to be named after the program as well. I run a 27 inch p Dell ultrasharp Monitor. At that Resolution the pixel pitch is. To translate that upwards you would need a 40inch monitor to get the same. I had a few apps that looked terrible. I was able to get my old apps to look better, still slightly blurry, by creating a manifest file and making a registry change. It might help you? Also, I have to reduce the resolution in one of the monitors if I want to play older games.
The worst issues I have are when I connect three external monitors to my laptop. You are correct. This is a windows problem. The very few that display poorly get uninstalled. Tried Fences a while back and it came in so small, bacteria are about all it could fence. Might be OK now. Magnifier which has three modes which can help enlarge small things on the screen. Full Screen Lens Docked.
I have had 4K monitor since and never had these problems. Yes windows 10 is garbage to work with 4K but no programs had issues. I only use native res though no scaling. It gets even worse folks. We shall see how it goes. Now osk. I actually prefer the older osk. Something so basic, yet it alludes the geniuses. Since then, manufacturers have shipped displays with significantly higher ppi, causing a few problems along the way. Newer applications are more aware of high-resolution displays, and some developers have caught up with the times and have adjusted their older applications.
Consider the following screenshot, which shows a 4K UHD screen set at its native resolution with the Windows 10 Settings app maximized. The Windows 10 and application user interfaces on such a display are simply too small to use. The most basic setting to look at is display scaling , which essentially means adjusting the DPI by some percentage multiplier. By increasing the display scaling, you can make on-screen items such as text and icons more substantial and more comfortable to read and use.
All the on-screen items such as text and icons are now much easier to view and manipulate. In a nutshell, the application only knows to provide its interface up to a specific resolution and physical pixel count. Because your resolution and pixel count is higher, Windows and the GPU will use the additional pixels to render the interface at a larger scale without everything looking like a blurry mess.
Text and lines are sharp, as if the app natively supported 4K. Alternatively, click the Start button followed by the Gear icon on the Start Menu. Both open the Settings app. You can then download and run the media creation tool. For more information on how to use the tool, see the instructions below. Note : Before you install Windows 10, check to make sure your PC meets the system requirements for Windows We also recommend going to the PC manufacturer's website for any additional info about updated drivers and hardware compatibility.
After downloading and installing, the tool will walk you through how to set up Windows 10 on your PC. All Windows 10 editions are available when you select Windows 10, except for Enterprise edition. Follow these steps to create installation media USB flash drive or DVD you can use to install a new copy of Windows 10, perform a clean installation, or reinstall Windows If you have Office or earlier and choose to perform a clean install of Windows 10, you will need to locate your Office product key.
For tips on locating your product key, check Find your Office product key or Enter the product key for your Office program. Select the language, edition, and architecture bit or bit for Windows After completing the steps to install Windows 10, please check that you have all the necessary device drivers installed. Note: Drivers for Surface devices may be found on the Download drivers and firmware for Surface page.
To open a boot menu or change the boot order, you'll typically need to press a key such as F2, F12, Delete, or Esc immediately after you turn on your PC. For instructions on accessing the boot menu or changing the boot order for your PC, check the documentation that came with your PC or go to the manufacturer's website.
If changing the boot menu or order doesn't work, and your PC immediately boots into the OS you want to replace, it is possible the PC had not fully shut down. To ensure the PC fully shuts down, select the power button on the sign-in screen or on the Start menu and select Shut down. Moving the slider to the left reduces the display scaling percentage, which will make things appear relatively smaller, while moving it to the right increases the display scaling percentage, making things look relatively larger.
If this scaled image is still too small, we can raise the Windows 10 display scaling percentage even higher. While the feature is certainly most useful on these large or pixel-dense displays, a user with even a standard resolution monitor can adjust display scaling, too, although raising the scaling percentage too much may make the Windows user interface comically large and unwieldy. Your email address will not be published. May 1, at am. What is sort of ridiculous is that the 4K resolutions are so overkill that we must now use scaling just to make them usable.
Especially on smaller notebooks the 4K is so overkill it is just a means of selling people something they may never really see the difference. In the end 4K benefits were better seen on much bigger screens. Many end up increasing scaling a lot anyway because of poor eye sight. Yes you can gain a lot of space on screen with 4K but fonts become so tiny its not worth it.
Midix says:. September 6, at pm. Colin Mellows says:. May 18, at pm. Many thanks for that, very useful. However some apps such as VLC Media player menus and even Canon printer set ups remain with ridiculously tiny text. I had to borrow a projector just to install my Canon Pixma MG Mels Rogue says:. May 12, at pm. Have programs Rockwell Automation — Machine code that DO NOT play well with 4ks — heads up — research your comparability before you buy to save headaches ….
March 26, at pm. Does any of you have any suggestions for me on what to do? Is that at all any kind of possibility either that is native with WIN 10 or my NVIDIA GTX m or if not possible with either of those then possibly is there an app or software of somekind that I possibly would be able to do that with?
Thank you so so much in advance to anyone out there that may be able to shed any kind of light in my direction to put me on the path to at least eventually finding a solution to my issue.
Thomas Card, [email protected]. February 6, at pm. For example on youtube you can mouse over a title and if its too long it will show the rest but when running 4k the text is insanely small. Is there any way to fix that? Michael Campanella says:. January 3, at pm. When I right click in an already open window not desktop I get just the frame of the submenu for about sec THEN it comes in. Only running 1 4k monitor at this time.
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