Monitor/Display Megathread - Chromebook Pixel is best IPS display on market

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WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

Hi,

I'm using a Dell U2515H at 1440p and some applications/windows stuff look like absolute dirge. Specifically blurry text.

EG:

Additionally, websites/fonts look a little centered/compact.

I'm not really sure what is the method to fix this. I have a horrible suspicion it's going to be quite a fragmented solution.

Can anyone offer some tips?

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WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

I dunno. It looks like it is detecting it ok.

Browser text looks sharp enough as do most of the OS fonts/text. It's just an issue around administrative tools and install/setup windows where it goes wonky.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2015 22:05

WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

AVeryLargeRadish posted:

You could try a displayport connection to rule out the HDTV possibility. I assume you already configured cleartype and such yes?

Affirmative!

wolrah posted:

That looks like Windows' DPI scaling being derpy. If an app doesn't declare itself as compatible Windows just literally blows up the contents. (Mac OS X did the same, but properly scaled most standard system widgets so only custom widgets and bitmap images ended up fuzzy).

You can set a compatibility option in the shortcut (or a few other ways that are harder) to disable scaling for specific programs or you can just set it to 100% system-wide in the display control panel.

I'll give this a go. Cheers.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2015 22:25

WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

Zorilla posted:

You have DPI scaling enabled, right? Guess what? Not even the Windows shell supports it completely. And it hasn't changed in Windows 10. For the Nth version in a row, Microsoft has barely done anything to the MMC and it will look terrible because it's stuck in 2001.

For more laughs, try this:

Two variations of the same interface. Only one one displays properly.

According to your description, web browsers are behaving as they should. They're applying 125% zoom, which may cause some responsive design CSS rules to kick in since it thinks your browser viewport is 80% of its actual size.

Cheers for this.

I guess what you're saying is: Deal with it?

# ¿ Aug 1, 2015 01:45

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