In recent years, High-DPI displays have become common. Having a lot more pixels to display your application on seems like a simple recipe for crisper graphics but, counterintuitively, the opposite is often the case. Many applications were written without taking the DPI of displays into account...
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Hello Windows Insiders!
Today we are excited to be releasing a new build from our Development Branch! Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16170 for PC has been released to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. As we mentioned earlier this week, you won’t see many big noticeable changes or new...
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In the previous blog post about High-dots-per-inch (DPI) scaling improvements, we talk about how desktop applications can be blurry or sized incorrectly when run on high-DPI displays. This is especially noticeable when docking and undocking or when using remoting technologies such as Remote...
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Hello Windows Insiders!
Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15019 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. FYI: This build does have some platform related bugs that will impact the ability to play popular games on your PC. These platform bugs are unrelated...
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As display technology has improved over time, the cutting edge has moved towards having more pixels packed into each physical square inch, and away from simply making displays physically larger. This trend has increased the dots per inch (DPI) of the displays on the market today. The Surface Pro...
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Very irritating issue here. I tried running a game "Assassin's creed:Syndicate" on my Asus ROG G551VW at a resolution of 1600x900 and it runs on partial screen even when I have fullscreen option checked. It will only occupy full screen if I run the game in 3840x2160 resolution but that's not...
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Hey Windows Insiders!
Time to show our PCs some love. We think you’ll really like this update. Today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14371 to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring.
Here’s what’s new in Build 14371
Activation Improvements: We’ve received feedback from Windows...
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I have a relatively simple problem which I just cannot resolve.
I have two monitors, one beside the other (in desktop extension, so that I have a wide desktop and can slide stuff seamlessly from one to the other). The first is 1920 x 1200, the other is 1920 x 1080. However, they are physically...
I have been want to play an old racing game for some time now (Driver By GT Interactive) but it wont load. It was deigned for Windows 98 and 95 and i am running 8.1. I manually found the install file and installed it along with Direct X 6 and Direct X Media. I set the compatibility mode and...
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Hi after installing windows 10 many programs and certain text in windows became very blurry when using 125 procent for text and apps and 1920/1080 resolution. The problem is described in a thread with different screenshots on a site called tenforums. cant link since this is my first post. but a...
It seems that Microsoft can't just release an OS that works properly without some sort of tweaking to make it even remotely usable for any sort of advanced application. I switched over to Windows 10 Enterprise through a clean install I did last night and I've regretted it ever since.
I have a...
Anyone have an idea on how to reduce the system tray icon sizes? I don't mean the icon image but the click/touch targets. The spacing between systray icons are larger than in previous versions of Windows.
However, in nearly everyone else's W10 screenshots, I see everyone's systray icons much...
Hi Everyone,
Today we have a new build for PCs going out to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring – Build 10122. I usually start these posts with the fun stuff at the top but want to call out our only big known Issue here right away – if you’re using an AMD GPU you’re likely to run into frequent...
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Hi everyone from the Build 2015 conference happening right now in San Francisco! If you haven’t already, Link Removed about all the Windows 10 announcements we made today. If you’re at Build this week or at Ignite in Chicago next week – keep your eye out for me and say hello!
Today we have a...
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When I move my mouse left and right fast it jumps up and down the screen randomly. I have tried using a different mouse mat, plugging it into a different usb plug and on another computer. I have a Gigabyte M6900 and my dpi is 800.
Thanks for any help.
Edit:
The mouse is about 2 years old, i've...
Are you build Visual Studio extensions? Will you do me a favor? Please consider your user's DPI.
My primary machine runs at 3K (2880x1620) and since my eyes are old, the DPI is at 200%. If you're not running a High DPI machine you may be wondering what's the problem? If you are, like Scott...
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Late 2013 I decided to by a new monitor… I looked around and the only one that stood out from the rest was this BenQ 3D monitor with NVidia 3D Vision 2. I thought I’d have a go at gaming so I charged the glasses and went through the setup which was an experience in itself. But before I even...
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I just bought a roccat kone pure high dpi mouse for 3d modeling and photoshop. It worked perfectly for a couple weeks, and now it is malfunctioning. I cannot orbit or pan with the mouse wheel. I cannot drag and relocate files on the desktop. I can select a file and move it, but as soon as i lift...
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Almost, but not quite
If you still use a lot of desktop applications as I do, you know that some handle high DPI displays and the desktop scaling functionality in Windows 8+ better than others. To date, the worst offenders, by far, have been Adobe's creative apps, like Photoshop. But with this...