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I wonder if the resolution is meant to be scaled like a retina screen (i.e. 1920x1080). I haven't used a high dpi monitor on Windows. Can anyone that has a high

I wonder if the resolution is meant to be scaled like a retina screen (i.e. 1920x1080). I haven't used a high dpi monitor on Windows. Can anyone that has a high dpi monitor comment on this?

wmf 13y ago
The elephant in the room here is that there's no good way to use this monitor. If you run in 1x mode everything is probably too small but if you run in 2x mode you have less resolution than an old and much cheaper 30" monitor.
- outworlder 13y ago
  You mean, there's no good way to use this monitor with Windows, right? Every sane OS nowadays can be run at high resolutions. Apparently, this even applies to Windows 8, but I can't vouch for that.
- Stratoscope 13y ago
  So you run it in Windows 8.1 and let it pick the scaling per app. High-DPI aware apps will get the full resolution and wil will 2x scale older apps (assuming you set the scaling to 200%). See the link in my other comment.
  - wmf 13y ago
    My point is that setting scaling to 200% is a waste of money. It needs to be something like 160% which is not handled well AFAIK.
    - NickNameNick 13y ago
      I've been using 140% dpi on a vista laptop since 2007, and it's worked just fine for everything.
- lowboy 13y ago
  1x is only too small if you're concerned with things other than visual creative work. I would love if my Photoshop menus could scale down to leave more room for the content I'm creating.
  - jfb 13y ago
    This is where OS X's hi-dpi support is so great; the UI elements in e.g. Aperture are rendered at 2x, so they are beautifully sharp, and the image is rendered at 1x.
    - lowboy 13y ago
      I'd like it if I could set the UI elements to 1x actually. More space for the image while having familiar interfaces still usable.
- kogir 13y ago
  I have an Asus PQ321Q, and use it at 1x. It's fine. It replaced two 30" monitors I had before and is so much better now that I no longer need to pan my head and the middle (where the bezels used to be) is actually useful.
  - Kiro 13y ago
    So next step would be two Asus PQ321Q?
Stratoscope 13y ago
If you use a high DPI monitor you want Windows 8.1. It can scale the display independently per monitor, and they did a bunch of other work in that area. http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/extremewindows/archive/2013/07/15/windows-8-1-dpi-scaling-enhancements.aspx http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/extremewindows/archive/20...

I wonder if the resolution is meant to be scaled like a retina screen (i.e. 1920x1080). I haven't used a high dpi monitor on Windows. Can anyone that has a high dpi monitor comment on this?

wmf 13y ago

The elephant in the room here is that there's no good way to use this monitor. If you run in 1x mode everything is probably too small but if you run in 2x mode you have less resolution than an old and much cheaper 30" monitor.

outworlder 13y ago
You mean, there's no good way to use this monitor with Windows, right? Every sane OS nowadays can be run at high resolutions. Apparently, this even applies to Windows 8, but I can't vouch for that.
Stratoscope 13y ago
So you run it in Windows 8.1 and let it pick the scaling per app. High-DPI aware apps will get the full resolution and wil will 2x scale older apps (assuming you set the scaling to 200%). See the link in my other comment.
- wmf 13y ago
  My point is that setting scaling to 200% is a waste of money. It needs to be something like 160% which is not handled well AFAIK.
  - NickNameNick 13y ago
    I've been using 140% dpi on a vista laptop since 2007, and it's worked just fine for everything.
lowboy 13y ago
1x is only too small if you're concerned with things other than visual creative work. I would love if my Photoshop menus could scale down to leave more room for the content I'm creating.
- jfb 13y ago
  This is where OS X's hi-dpi support is so great; the UI elements in e.g. Aperture are rendered at 2x, so they are beautifully sharp, and the image is rendered at 1x.
  - lowboy 13y ago
    I'd like it if I could set the UI elements to 1x actually. More space for the image while having familiar interfaces still usable.
kogir 13y ago
I have an Asus PQ321Q, and use it at 1x. It's fine. It replaced two 30" monitors I had before and is so much better now that I no longer need to pan my head and the middle (where the bezels used to be) is actually useful.
- Kiro 13y ago
  So next step would be two Asus PQ321Q?

Stratoscope 13y ago

If you use a high DPI monitor you want Windows 8.1. It can scale the display independently per monitor, and they did a bunch of other work in that area. http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/extremewindows/archive/2013/07/15/windows-8-1-dpi-scaling-enhancements.aspx http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/extremewindows/archive/20...