Which DPI size is your monitor running on?

Hopachi · 10 Mar 2016

whs said:

At 100% I wouldn't see a thing.

Reducing the resolution is the equivalent, though pixelated.

Or just changing the text size to larger font would make it readable at 100%.

Though I use 100%, a font size of 12pt instead of 9pt looks nicer.

Hopachi · 10 Mar 2016

Here is a nice test in practice:
640x400 @100% DPI = 1920x1200 @300% DPI
(well, equal from the item-scale point of view; not the pixels; display gfx stretching should be enabled for the low res)

Click image to play animation, each of both frames is shown for 3 seconds:

Which DPI size is your monitor running on?-300vs100dpi.gif

Notice the sharpness on high DPI but they're both practically the same from a distance.
The screen is in the end the same for two resolutions of same ratio, the second being actually the less pixelated version of the first.

msny · 11 Mar 2016

whs said:

I envy all you people with good eyes. At 100% I wouldn't see a thing.

I hear ya, I'm not 25 anymore.

msny · 11 Mar 2016

Hopachi said:

See first post:

Go to Control Panel - Display
(Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Display)

Click on "set a custom scaling level" -> then it will give you the ruler options. Instead of using the provided drop down, type in your value. For instance I could pick 108%, sign out and back in to test.

Also, dragging the ruler left-right works:
Attachment 68721

Got that, looks like 110% is my sweet spot on DPI.
MS sure buried that setting in 10, in 7 it was easy to find.

Now when I look at the default scale slider in display, it says 175%
but the DPI scale is 110%.

Now if I could get the font up to 10point and lose the High Contrast setting.

Hopachi · 12 Mar 2016

msny said:

Now when I look at the default scale slider in display, it says 175%
but the DPI scale is 110%.

I got weird values as well there, the one saying 175% is obviously inactive and wrong (a bug...)

msny said:

Now if I could get the font up to 10point and lose the High Contrast setting.

Text size can be changed, see here:
Icons Text Size - Change in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums
Besides icons, you see titles and other options.

msny · 13 Mar 2016

Hopachi said:

I got weird values as well there, the one saying 175% is obviously inactive and wrong (a bug...)

Text size can be changed, see here:
Icons Text Size - Change in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums
Besides icons, you see titles and other options.

Changing font size does not work for me, and I go back to 100%.
When I change the point size nothing? After I reboot nothing?
It's still at 9 point.

But I'm happy with DPI at 110% and high contrast.
Thanks much!

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