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The 4K monitor installed fine on the Windows 10 device; the resolution was detected immediately and while Windows loaded a generic driver, it was not difficult to download the latest driver and color profile from LG for the monitor to get it installed.
Probably the biggest issue that users who work on 4K monitors will run into is that many Win32 programs don't support high display resolutions. While you can still run these programs, you will notice that text and information is presented in barely readable form unless you have very good eyesight but even then, you probably hurting your sight over time when doing so.
Take my favorite feed reader QuiteRSS as an example; this is how the program displays by default on a 4K monitor:. The text is readable but it puts a strain on the eyes, at least in my case. Many programs offer options to deal with this. QuiteRSS allows you to change the font size and other parameters in the options. Problem is: since there is no global setting that you can tweak, you are left with doing so for every program that you run on the system.
Even worse, some programs, especially older programs that are not updated anymore, may not offer these settings at all. You could use the on-screen magnifier when working with those programs but that is not really a solution.
Even programs that are still in active development may not support high DPI perfectly. Popular applications like PeaZip were updated only recently while others, like the new Malwarebytes 4. But tiny text and interface elements is just part of the problem. If you run Windows 10 on multiple displays, like I have to test this, you may notice blurry text, elements that look out of size, or elements that look fuzzy.
Microsoft has a support page up on its website that highlights Windows scaling issues. Programs like DPI Fix were created to address the issue. One recourse for the latter problem may be to disable display scaling on high DPI settings.
You simply right-click on the program executable and select properties from the context menu. There you switch to the compatibility tab and activate the "change high DPI settings" button there to open the DPI options. I think that the advantages outweigh the issues but it depends on the programs that you run and how they display on a 4K or high DPI display.
A second monitor for production instead? I have 2 external monitors at p. Windows wants to make the 4K screen fuzzy. Work is too cheap to buy 4K monitors. So, at home I bought a 4K TV. Ridiculously large. This is just pure clickbait. First of all, Windows will automatically ask you if apps seem blurry. Most generic PNP monitors work with windows and will confgure to their native resolutions. I have been running 4k for a few years already on nvidia platform.
The main issue I think the author has is using legacy apps. They are a security threat. QuickBooks current, not an old version is horrible on my 4k laptop. The only way that it looks right … nothing microscopic on the screen … is to adjust down to Wind blows might be cheap but is a pain in the ass. I swear Linux today on certain systems is easier to use. Macs are overpriced. On and Google tries, but is small time with Chromium. The industry apparently is just making it look like that, by still dragging on with p.
I should have already been able to get one a couple of years ago. Hi ll! I have an internal UHD display in my Lenovo , which is a ohysically rather small screen, but has a 4k resolution. Now as a second external Monitor I use a FullHD screen, which is physically a good deal larger than the small notebook display, BUT: when arranging the two screens in Windows 10, the large external screen apear as half the size of the small UHD display with in the beginning funny effects, but tending to really get on my nerves now.
The cause for this appears to be the generic PNP monitor driver used for the 4k UHD display, which obviously fails in determining the screens size, while the external monitor is properly recognized as the exact Samsung type, surely telling its physical size. Does anyone here know, how to get another correct display driver to be used for the internal display? Lenovo seems not to deliver one and relies upon the generic Windows driver pnp monitor which can not know and mybe also cannot get the size of the internal monitor.
It would be sufficient, if I had the option to manually set the display size not the resolution! Details: the internal display is about 32cm in width, the external is arranged above the internal one. I need to move the mouse from centimeter 8 to 24 to be able to move it at the top out on the internal screen to the external one about 60cm large , where it jumps to the far left corner is I exactly hit the 8cm line.
Tried many settings in the app and in the exe properties to no avail. Just had a user call today with this exact issue. Modern builds of Windows 10 do pixel perfect scaling in this case. Also definitely use more than one screen!
Also if you are using multiple screens and only one of them has High DPI, it brings even more issues!!! I really hope it will be a good choice! Great minds think alike, I guess. I came to the exact same conclusion, although not using Windows. I agree. I prefer two or three 27 inch screens over a single much larger one for a number of reasons.
Pixeldensity is what matters for readability. It must be my relatively up to date mix of apps as I have not experienced any scaling issues… in fact the one issue I have seen is where the scaling is different on one screen in a dual screen setup… the window resizing as you drag it across from one to the other.
That is only annoying and clumsy however, not a full functional issue. Having the screen real estate is mandatory…. I use a 4K display with Windows for more than 2 years now. I recognize the general story. In everyday use, problems with 4K are not scaling in the first place.
The experience compared to p 1K is much better. Your monitor may be able to do 60 fps, but your cable may support Your video driver between OS and GPU may run graphics into the ground, either blue screening, or resetting everything using graphics, or breaking up, or continuing video and audio as if nothing wrong but without updating the display. Your Thunderbolt 3 hub-dock may support 2 or 3 of these 4K displays, but after power save sleep, Windows has forgotten they are even there acknowledged by MS, but no promise of resolution.
I could rant more, but already feel like calling into a desert. The scaling? Why one component may scale differently than others. Historical can become hysterical, quickly and the Seattle school of software engineering has some soul searching to do.
I see no reason really to move to 4K any time soon. That will probably take another decade. Now everything is fine. I think this is the legacy scalung method which Windows is using. There are some compromises either way, but I personally prefer the sharp text of the custom way.
Far better to the eyes. I believe 4k is still early for most applications. Sorry to hear you are having issues. I upgradec to 2k with hz refresh rate and I cannot go back to p. My problem is less with programs that do not scale at all than with programs that scale the FONT only. The screen library we use handles all of that for us. This worked for me on an older version of Photoshop, Camtasia, and a few others.
Now I get the crisp text and graphics without having to squint to read the menus or see the icons. To avoid these known problems I have not bought a 4K display that is smaller than 42 inch diagonal.
I just use a dual monitor setup to have 2 browser windows next to each other. I do plan on buying a 4K monitor later, but it must have a diagonal of inches with a non reflective IPS screen. You then get more twice the screen area of a dual p monitor setup. The problem is that at the moment none of the current 4K monitors in that size range let you adjust the height and angle.
Stupidity is creating a laptop with a small 4k screen. Mores tupid is buying such a thing. You need to get very very close to see the benefits, and the extra pixels hurt the battery and performance. The same stupidity apllies to phones.
Money and time is wasted on things like this and creats problems , instead of solving real problems. Besides, I like the extra vertical real-estate. Much more useful for working and web browsing! The resolution is high enough for me even on a monitor that big. The colors are gorgeous and apparently very accurate. Honestly 4K is less of a problem than HDR. It works beautifully. I use each monitor for two apps side by side. So I have 6 open at once. Perfect for productivity.
Some programs I run half-screen left or right half, usually Visual Studio or similar apps and others I run quarter screen, so I can have a lot of windows in front of me at once.
I do mostly software development where the extra resolution really comes in handy. I have been adjusting all necessary apps to be able to see the text clearly. My biggest issue is with all the white that is now on screens. On an extra wide monitor such as mine there are huge amounts of empty white space.
It is not a Winsows 10 problem, it is an individual application issue. Microsoft provides the ability to link their global settings in your program. Programmers simply choose to use or not. End of story. They were both patched within 6 mo of me noticing this. Any application can use Windows DPI and text size settings but many of not most ignore these settings. Games that are designed and marketed for 4k. A good recent example is Death Stranding on PS4 pro. The text in the main interface you see while playing prompts, information etc and menus are all incredibly hard to read but this is literally a game designed for 4k… It was designed for a console as well so the assumption is it was designed to be played in a living room style setting which means you are probably sitting at least 5 feet from the screen.
Even at 65 inches I have to get up and get to about 3 feet of the screen to read it and I have perfect vision. Really what programmers need to start doing is allow the user to modify text size of these things in games and applications.
There are too many different usage scenarios for a one size fits all approach.. It lets you set it how you want. Now we just need developers to take those settings into account.
I primarily game on my system and gaming at 4k sounds like a nightmare. For example. I have a RTX Super powering this thing and it still struggles to hit frames. Yeah I see a difference, the screen is nice and sharp. It all depends on your use case. If I was a programmer or looked at words all day then I could see the benefit.
That or you turn down your graphical settings. But how silly is that? So beautiful! And at medium settings! It is interesting that Apple does application scaling seamlessly as opposed to Windows where it is still a major pain all the years after high DPI option first appeared. Those designers allow to set variable widths and heights according to the size of text to display.
However, enabling this variance usually messes up any alignment of fields, buttons etc. More often than not, it is a choice between evils for a developer. Anything with a screen size over 35 inch can be 4K, below that screen size, why bother?
Personally, I rather have 2 smaller monitors 22 inch to 24 inch on my desk than one bigger sized monitor that with 4K has similar screen real estate than those 2 monitors. The division between 2 separate monitors makes you more productive. For all those who say Mac will render 4k seamlessly apparently forget random bugs like Mac going to sleep and not waking up, not detecting the monitor, all the text and icons showing 5x the expected size and more importantly Mac not supporting older apps if they are not for the new OS as for Windows it is backward compatible.
Also an even more important note to the author. This was a complete waste of time for you to write and for me to read. Please venture into more interesting topics.
This is why you should go to tech sites for tech news. Display resolution alone is only part of the equation. Display size is just as important. Want to run 4k properly? Also, your apps are the problem, not Windows.
The Windows API allows for proper scaling but since those old apps have not updated their code to take advantage of this new feature, they are the issue. I hate being put in the position of appearing to be a Windows White Knight but non-tech sites like these make it necessary. I use Office at home 4k and work hd but when i set Outlook font sizes for home monitor Office dragged the settings across to work so it looks worse at work now.
My main goal was pixel density and readability benefits similar to the screen on my Surface Pro 4 and the Retina display on my iPhone. I did find it necessary to upgrade to a much, much newer version of Adobe Acrobat for this reason, though.
Message to Microsoft: it just needs to work. Get it done. However, despite these travails, the pixel density and readability improvements are so worth it. My 48 year old eyes really appreciate it. Apple was there years ago with its retina displays, and Microsoft really needs to get serious about catching up, and fast.
None of us should tolerate the eyestrain of a low pixel density display. The resolution and size is exactly 1. Perfect scaling every time. I now have 3 of them. Reasonably priced, too. Most of our applications are custom written and have raster based graphics with customizable icon and text size for everything but even then our foray into high dpi displays below 0.
The article title is misleading. The problem is not with Windows but with applications that do not support high pixel density. Windows 10 has the necesary APIs for this. The comination of pixel density and screen size also matter for the optimum display experience. Made that transition about 18 months ago.
I only ran into one issue. It was not a revenue generator for the company, so they have no plan to update it. Sounds like you need an ultrawide or multimonitor setup. MacOS is just as bad or worse. Get a high DPI display and you will barely be able to read most of the text. Only Edge has smooth scrolling. I LIKE the real estate with a high-res monitor. No rush there. There is a physical delineation between my workspaces. I have tried the large screens many times before, but I prefer the segmentation that my setup provides.
Thanks for doing ghacks, by the way. Long time reader, 1st time commenter. A full Windows 10 reset fixed the 4k scaling issues for me. I believe it was an upgrade to they lastest Windows 10, then reset from boot, the reset in the OS. Having used 4k monitors for both work and home for almost 4 years now,there really is no excuse not to.. Website scaling is a complete non-issue too as you can just snap a browser to the side of your screen and have it take up half the space. The multi-tasking benefits that comes with 4k monitor s are simply undeniable.
