View Single Post
Old 05-31-2017, 04:36 AM   #42
MikeB1972
Gnu
MikeB1972 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MikeB1972 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MikeB1972 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MikeB1972 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MikeB1972 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MikeB1972 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MikeB1972 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MikeB1972 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MikeB1972 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MikeB1972 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MikeB1972 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 1,222
Karma: 15625359
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: UK
Device: BeBook,JetBook Lite,PRS-300-350-505-650,+ran out of space to type
Quote:
Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
If your statement is true, then why do so many older programs that don't support hi-dpi scaling in Windows look crap on a high resolution display?

If you stretch/blow up something, i.e. a user interface or an image, to a resolution it wasn't designed for, it -will- look worse.
They generally looked crap on the old screen as well, it's just what you were used to

One of the main differences is that your old monitor was probably about 14", the other is windows bitmap scaling which sucks.

TBH it does depend on if the resolution is a direct multiple of the old resolution, 1.5x will look a little bit blurry 2.0x will look the same, this will diminish as the new resolution gets higher so you will end up with a slightly better resolution screen looking worse but a much better resolution screen looking the same.
MikeB1972 is offline   Reply With Quote