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When was the last time you used windows? Windows 10 has solved all of these, you need to find and use some old 3rd party apps to have this issue

gareim 5y ago
The Netflix Windows app and my 4K monitor at 125% do not work together. The UI elements are tiny and the padding is wrong.
stronglikedan 5y ago
There's still some issues if you have multiple monitors with different display scalings, but they have just about solved that too.
robterrell 5y ago
Tell that to my Windows 10 install, because it's displaying a hodge-dodge of non-uniformly scaled bullshit. Solved would mean I'm not hacking a scaling factor into the perforce config file to get its window to match the rest of the UI. Solved would mean that Windows handled it for everything drawing windows.
mlyle 5y ago
I've been using Windows and hidpi for the past few years & routinely encounter scaling bullshit.
philjohn 5y ago
Pretty much any app using bog standard winforms seems to suffer.
pdpi 5y ago
I'm on Windows 10 right now, running a 1440p display, and a 4k display at a logical resolution of 1440p. Lots of stuff misbehaves on the scaled 4k display. For a couple of examples: The nVidia Control Panel ignores the scaling on the 4k display and renders tiny text as if the display was set to 4k. GPU-Z looks like a blurry mess.
breakfastduck 5y ago
It really has not
jiveturkey 5y ago
The last time I used Windows was last night. Unlike Mac where I hold back on updates until they force my hand, I update my Win 10 as soon as it hits the public channel. I can assure you, the problem is far from solved. Whereas on MacOS, not a single app misbehaves. Most apps are 3rd party apps!
indemnity 5y ago
I’m on Windows 11 and still regularly see this.
Groxx 5y ago
I've been running Win 10 with 150% scaling for a year or so, with fairly light use because I spend easily >10x more time in OSX (where scaling works correctly nigh-universally). Win10 scaling is..... very hit or miss. Various programs are of course all over the place, but some system utilities don't even render correctly. Window size and control placement is mostly correct everywhere, but text? Images? Tooltips? Ooooh boy are those a mess. Maybe like 20% of apps I've ever touched don't render something correctly. That's A LOT of problems. And that's before I start talking about running two screens at different densities. Then it's borderline hilarious how broken things are.
- oneplane 5y ago
  The worst thing is that scaling isn't applied correctly at all. You can have a taskbar icon with correct scaling that has a tooltip that isn't scaled at all and a context-menu that is scaled correctly but the scaling was also applied to the position so now it floats 50 pixels in the wrong direction. It's an inconsistent mess. Great for people who think inconsistent messes are beneficial for them, not great for other people.
  - Groxx 5y ago
    Taskbar stuff! I totally forgot about that. Yeah, those are very frequently wildly screwed up. I've had their icons squashed weirdly several times, context menus in particular have no rhyme or reason I can discern about how they break (they just do everything imaginable), and a good number just never show their popup content at all. Maybe it's appearing off-screen? It's impossible to tell! Not that stuff in the taskbar is at all stable normally, of course. About half of the time I'm trying some new application out, it'll disappear from the taskbar as I mouse over it, apparently because that portion crashed or something and for some reason windows doesn't detect that until it's moused over. Or sometimes they'll double or triple up for no apparent reason, and mousing over will clear out the duplicates. I can't imagine what leads dozens of applications to have those same kinds of problems, so I'm forced to assume it's at least partly because of Windows.
qiller 5y ago
Just on the weekend I ran into Keyshot pretty much ignoring the scaling. Then Rainway installer rendered in some weird scale factor. Then Modern CSV got issues all over the UI. It is far from being solved…
garaetjjte 5y ago
You mean old 3rd party apps such as Device Manager?

gareim 5y ago

The Netflix Windows app and my 4K monitor at 125% do not work together. The UI elements are tiny and the padding is wrong.

stronglikedan 5y ago

There's still some issues if you have multiple monitors with different display scalings, but they have just about solved that too.

robterrell 5y ago

Tell that to my Windows 10 install, because it's displaying a hodge-dodge of non-uniformly scaled bullshit. Solved would mean I'm not hacking a scaling factor into the perforce config file to get its window to match the rest of the UI. Solved would mean that Windows handled it for everything drawing windows.

mlyle 5y ago

I've been using Windows and hidpi for the past few years & routinely encounter scaling bullshit.

philjohn 5y ago

Pretty much any app using bog standard winforms seems to suffer.

pdpi 5y ago

I'm on Windows 10 right now, running a 1440p display, and a 4k display at a logical resolution of 1440p. Lots of stuff misbehaves on the scaled 4k display. For a couple of examples: The nVidia Control Panel ignores the scaling on the 4k display and renders tiny text as if the display was set to 4k. GPU-Z looks like a blurry mess.

breakfastduck 5y ago

It really has not

jiveturkey 5y ago

The last time I used Windows was last night. Unlike Mac where I hold back on updates until they force my hand, I update my Win 10 as soon as it hits the public channel. I can assure you, the problem is far from solved. Whereas on MacOS, not a single app misbehaves. Most apps are 3rd party apps!

indemnity 5y ago

I’m on Windows 11 and still regularly see this.

Groxx 5y ago

I've been running Win 10 with 150% scaling for a year or so, with fairly light use because I spend easily >10x more time in OSX (where scaling works correctly nigh-universally). Win10 scaling is..... very hit or miss. Various programs are of course all over the place, but some system utilities don't even render correctly. Window size and control placement is mostly correct everywhere, but text? Images? Tooltips? Ooooh boy are those a mess. Maybe like 20% of apps I've ever touched don't render something correctly. That's A LOT of problems. And that's before I start talking about running two screens at different densities. Then it's borderline hilarious how broken things are.

oneplane 5y ago
The worst thing is that scaling isn't applied correctly at all. You can have a taskbar icon with correct scaling that has a tooltip that isn't scaled at all and a context-menu that is scaled correctly but the scaling was also applied to the position so now it floats 50 pixels in the wrong direction. It's an inconsistent mess. Great for people who think inconsistent messes are beneficial for them, not great for other people.
- Groxx 5y ago
  Taskbar stuff! I totally forgot about that. Yeah, those are very frequently wildly screwed up. I've had their icons squashed weirdly several times, context menus in particular have no rhyme or reason I can discern about how they break (they just do everything imaginable), and a good number just never show their popup content at all. Maybe it's appearing off-screen? It's impossible to tell! Not that stuff in the taskbar is at all stable normally, of course. About half of the time I'm trying some new application out, it'll disappear from the taskbar as I mouse over it, apparently because that portion crashed or something and for some reason windows doesn't detect that until it's moused over. Or sometimes they'll double or triple up for no apparent reason, and mousing over will clear out the duplicates. I can't imagine what leads dozens of applications to have those same kinds of problems, so I'm forced to assume it's at least partly because of Windows.

qiller 5y ago

Just on the weekend I ran into Keyshot pretty much ignoring the scaling. Then Rainway installer rendered in some weird scale factor. Then Modern CSV got issues all over the UI. It is far from being solved…

garaetjjte 5y ago

You mean old 3rd party apps such as Device Manager?