Is windows designed to perform best on a full HD screen?

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Is windows designed to perform best on a full HD screen?

Anonymous

I recently moved from mac to windows.

having been working with Retina screen, I wanted to have a same-level screen for my upgraded windows laptop.

Now I have a dell Precision 5570 with a 4k+ (3840 * 2400) screen quality. I also have 2 external monitors, one 4k and one is FHD.

If you want to go with no scaling, everything would be too small.

however, the scaling in windows does not work the same as what I experienced in mac. Things are getting zoomed and shown larger but this also comes with a blur effect.

in some cases, even you have scaling of 300% to make things look normal, the content of the app are shown in the original scaling factor (100%) which mean very small text size. an in a word uncomfortable. See the example below:

P.s.

this is not happing in all apps.

the blurry affect can be seen regularly during the installation of new apps.

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Answer 1

Anonymous

Not a lot of apps are installed on my laptop. but I see things get blurry or become very small (un-resizable) .

you see here is my task bar.

Some taskbar icons have gotten blurry. They were not like it before, and I have no explanation for that.

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Answer 2

Anonymous

Thanks Dave,

I tried what you suggested, but it did not work for me.

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some apps do not support scaling in Windows. That is very rare, but does happen.

Unfortunately it is not rare. for example during the installation process of most ( not to say all) applications, you would see the quality of the installation windows is low and the text are quite blurry.

see the following screenshots!

you see the NVIDIA Control panel is a bit blurry... lets open the app!

here is the result! on the left are my desktop icons with the normal text size I would expect to see!

Answer 4

Hi,

some apps do not support scaling in Windows. That is very rare, but does happen. Blury-ness is also something that can be related to the apps. Note that you should ideally restart your device when you change these settings, to make all apps respond to them.

The UI-Framework of the App is responsible for scaling, meaning if an app is written to be a specific pixel size, it may not respond to scaling changes.

Blurriness can also be caused by some scaling factors (200% generally looks better than 150% or 125%.)

In general, you should usually go with what Windows recommends.

Sincerely,

LightJack

Answer 5

Hi NimaTB,

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

The Scaling in Windows is applied only to UWP apps, usually downloaded form the Microsoft Store and the pre-installed apps, for 3rd party software created by software developers, they do not always implement DPI scaling and so, their apps will not scale correctly in Windows 10 or 11, some software developers have not oved with the ties and really need to upgrade their software, especially because screens have gotten bigger with very high resolutions.

One setting that may help:

Open the Settings app, then go to System - Display - Graphics

Select the app that is blurry from the list.

Click on Options

Select High Performance and then save that.

Restart your PC.

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