Combining a 4k and 2 1080 monitors in windows 10

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Combining a 4k and 2 1080 monitors in windows 10

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Is there a solution by now for the scaling problem when using a 4k and a (in my case 2) 1080 monitor(s)?

I found 4 options, but all with some fairly big downsides.

The main problem is that the advised dpi scaling for a 4k is 150% and for a 1080 is 100%. I would think that anyone can calculate that there is a big difference in actual size with regards to dpi to pixel ratio. Obviously a 4k would need a 2 to 1 ratio to a 1080. So 150% and 100% don't really work.

Solutions that are not really satisfactory:

In the current default setting icons, fonts and menu's in applications are very big and fuzzy on my 1080 monitors (27 inch), but very good on my 4k monitor.
Setting the scaling on the 4k monitor to 200% which results in matching the pixel to dpi ratio. This results in everything being ridiculously big on my 4k monitor (32 inch) and still leaves me with fuzzy fonts on my 1080's.
Using a registry hack to set dpi lower than default, 96 to 72 for example which would give me the option to virtually choose 75% for my 1080's and 150% for my 4k monitor, but then windows 10 doesn't let me set the dpi scaling for any monitor (grayed out).
Using nvidia settings to emulate 4k on my 1080's which works to some degree, the ratio's match, but this gives me a fuzzy result on the 1080's.

What I would actually need is being able to set the 1080's to 75% and leave the 4k on 150%. This matches the ratios, would most likely give me a sharper image on the 1080's and have all the sizes of fonts, icons and menu's to a good size, but windows 10 doesn't give me this option.

Anyone found a solution? Microsoft?

Thanks,

Erik

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Answer 1

Hi Sandeep,

I appreciate your effort, but no that's not really helpfull. As you can read in my question I already know that 75% is not available. My question is/was is there another solution for the problem of using a 4k monitor in combination with a 1080p monitor since this seems to be a not uncommon configuration these days. Or does microsoft think it is a satisfactory solution to look at a blurry monitor while it is a high quality monitor?

Another thing is that I could solve it myself if it weren't the case that microsoft for some reason seems to block other solutions by either graying out options and/or letting the os choose the options for you. I used to like microsoft because I was in charge of my computer, but by now it seems they have gone the apple road in trying to make it as hard as possible to configure my computer myself.

I am guessing by your answer that there is no satisfactory solution? A bit surprising since I have seen a lot of posts with people having the same problem and also dating back quit some time. This can hardly be a new problem to microsoft.

My suggestion would be to either solve this problem or give users the possibility to choose their options themselves. In my experience sharing my feedback on the feedback hub is useless and also judging by the first post around this problem and still not having a solution. Perhaps you could make this effort yourself, that would at least be useful. I don't mean to be rude, but it seems to me that giving these generic answers is quit useless and even a bit patronizing.

Erik

Answer 2

Hello,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

You will not be able to set the DPI scaling to 75% for 1080 monitor, as scaling available for Windows 10 starts from 100%.

For more information about DPI scaling refer the article under Unified and extended scaling system from the article.

You can also share feedback in the Feedback Hub.

Hope it helps.

Sandeep Kumar M

Microsoft Community – Moderator

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