#Windows 8 external monitor pro#
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#Windows 8 external monitor windows#

Changing the scaling to be the same across all displays has the same effect as what others have described in this thread. However, when I connected two external monitors, each is 20.1' 1600x1200, everything looks blurry on theД®xternal monitors. My setup is a Dell laptop with a 15.6' UHD 3840x2160 display, which looks fine using the default scaling settings.

#Windows 8 external monitor windows#

I hope Microsoft releases a fix in the next service pack but doubt it will happen until Windows 9 at the earliest.

#Windows 8 external monitor windows 8#

It's extremely deceptive for Windows 8 to advertise that it can handle DPI scaling on multiple monitors as if it's a usable feature. The laptop is run at below 200% DPI scaling.Д®ven running one monitor at a time is not viable, as it requires logging in and logging out in order to change the DPI settings every time I intend to switch to or from using the laptop on my desk with an external monitor. Menu bars are excessively large and use up all the screen real estate on the external monitor when UI elements are scaled to over 100% and UI elements are too small to use when The external monitor is run with 100% DPI scaling everything is sized correctly but unusably blurry.Д¬hoosing a common scaling factor for both displays is not a solution either. Laptop must be run at 200% DPI scaling to make UI elements on the laptop large enough to be usable. I have a Lenovo Y50 Laptop with 15.6' UHD display (3840x2160), with a dell 21' external monitor (1920x1200). all the crazy pastel font choices must surely make a difference about how many 'holes' there are to fill in? Instead of calling the text 'blurry' I would call it 'patchy', until a sufficient Zoom factor gets applied to fill in the holes.ДЄ related factor I think is color. Just an example of changing the DPI on the wide-screen monitor to be something less than its 'native resolution'. Another thing that helped was choosingВ a resolution for my wide-screen monitor which matched the aspect ratio of my Tablet, though I don't know if that was just a coincidence or (Apparently the proper keywords instead of my interpretation of these details is sub-pixel anti-aliasing, grayscale or color.)ДЇWIW my workaround in IE is always to use a Zoom higher than 100%. When tilting Tablets from Landscape into Portrait orientation. Supposedly this was the answer to complaints about color fringes caused by ClearType and also to solve related problems Previous guesses were about ClearType and the change from multi-color pixel interpolation down to just grey-scale pixel interpolation. Here are a coupleВ ofВ comparison screenshots of the external display showing File Explorer and Visual Studio 2013: Is anyone able to help resolve this or is it simply a badВ implementation of per-display scaling? I've posted to this forum in the hope there will be other peopleВ with a similar setup. Is this how Microsoft haveВ implemented per-display scaling?В There is no way I can tolerate such blurriness on the external display especially as I intend to use it mainly for development so clarity of text is important. So my guess isВ that Windows is rendering my external display off-screen at 200% and then crunching it down to 100% via bitmap processing.

#Windows 8 external monitor windows 8.1#

I have a fully updated version of Windows 8.1 ProВ Update 1. I verified that the externalДisplay is being driven at the correct resolution via the monitor's own information option which says 2560 x 1440В at 60Hz (I was at least pleased that the Intel HD 4400 graphics were able to drive both displays at their proper resolution withВ 32-bitД¬olour andВ at 60Hz). So I tried the option forВ setting one scalingВ of 100% for all displays and now the external display is sharp as it should be, but the internal display is obviously useless in desktop mode because everything is too small.

However, all content on the external display is blurry. I have just bought an Asus PB278Q which has a resolution of 2560 x 1440 which I run at 100% scaling, and which I want to use for development.

#Windows 8 external monitor pro#

I have a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro which hasВ a resolution of 3200 x 1800 which I run at 200% scaling.