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Got excited for a minute when I saw "Virual Desktop" on Win10 and then saw it changes nothing about the desktops themselves. Unless I'm totally missing somethi

Got excited for a minute when I saw "Virual Desktop" on Win10 and then saw it changes nothing about the desktops themselves. Unless I'm totally missing something, is there a way to make Win10 believe the desktop size is larger than the video screen size? With or without device resolution indepdence, I don't care. Let it scroll or something. It's just really sucky when I'm trying to debug an application that expects a large monitor (ala 1280x960 or something) and my laptop only has 1366x768. Qt literally says "screw it, I'm clipping your window" in these cases.

ZenoArrow 10y ago
This may be what you're looking for, though I've not tried it myself: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5990-dpi-scaling-level-displays-change-windows-10-a.html https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5990-dpi-scaling-level-d...
- joezydeco 10y ago
  No, this only works in the positive direction (making pixels bigger so vision-impaired people can read text, for example). What I need is this setup, but be able to go lower than 100%. So if I chose 50% for example, my 1366x768 LCD actually looks like a 2732x1536 desktop to Windows. Win10 won't go lower than 100%.
  - ZenoArrow 10y ago
    Looks like there may be a way around it with a registry change: http://superuser.com/a/80154/591014 http://superuser.com/a/80154/591014 https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/hardware/commercialize/manufacture/desktop/dpi-related-apis-and-registry-settings https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/hardware/commercial...
cbartlett 10y ago
Depends on your video adaptor/card, but nvidia supports Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR), and AMD supports Virtual Super Resolution, both of which essentially allow you to bump your res beyond the max. In the nvidia control panel, have a look in '3D settings' > 'Manage 3D settings' > 'DSR - Factors' and you can change the resolution multiplier. (Not sure why it's in 3D settings, as it applies to the desktop along with anything else).
- joezydeco 10y ago
  It's a piece of crap Dell with an Intel video deck, so no good.

ZenoArrow 10y ago

This may be what you're looking for, though I've not tried it myself: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5990-dpi-scaling-level-displays-change-windows-10-a.html https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5990-dpi-scaling-level-d...

joezydeco 10y ago
No, this only works in the positive direction (making pixels bigger so vision-impaired people can read text, for example). What I need is this setup, but be able to go lower than 100%. So if I chose 50% for example, my 1366x768 LCD actually looks like a 2732x1536 desktop to Windows. Win10 won't go lower than 100%.
- ZenoArrow 10y ago
  Looks like there may be a way around it with a registry change: http://superuser.com/a/80154/591014 http://superuser.com/a/80154/591014 https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/hardware/commercialize/manufacture/desktop/dpi-related-apis-and-registry-settings https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/hardware/commercial...

cbartlett 10y ago

Depends on your video adaptor/card, but nvidia supports Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR), and AMD supports Virtual Super Resolution, both of which essentially allow you to bump your res beyond the max. In the nvidia control panel, have a look in '3D settings' > 'Manage 3D settings' > 'DSR - Factors' and you can change the resolution multiplier. (Not sure why it's in 3D settings, as it applies to the desktop along with anything else).

joezydeco 10y ago
It's a piece of crap Dell with an Intel video deck, so no good.