{"id":305,"date":"2017-08-10T09:16:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T09:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/?p=305"},"modified":"2017-08-10T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T09:16:16","slug":"fix-dpi-scaling-issues-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Fix DPI scaling issues in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a computer with an awesome hi-res display (mine is 3840 x 2160) you might know the problem: some older application don&#8217;t follow the DPI upscaling setting of Windows, which makes them in practise unusable.<\/p>\n<p>To fix this issue, you can tell Windows to manually scale up some particular applicatons. To do this, you must first find the place where the application file is located, for example by right-clicking on the program in the start menu:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/?attachment_id=306\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-306\" alt=\"step1-findfile\" src=\"http:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/step1-findfile.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/step1-findfile.png 200w, https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/step1-findfile-189x300.png 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Then enter the properties page of the file with another right-click:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/?attachment_id=309\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-309\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-309\" alt=\"step2-fileproperties\" src=\"http:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/step2-fileproperties1.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/step2-fileproperties1.png 500w, https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/step2-fileproperties1-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/step2-fileproperties1-364x300.png 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>and tell Windows in the compatibility tab to do the scaling instead of asking the application to do it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/?attachment_id=308\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-308\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-308\" alt=\"step3-DPIcompatibility\" src=\"http:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/step3-DPIcompatibility.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a computer with an awesome hi-res display (mine is 3840 x 2160) you might know the problem: some older application don&#8217;t follow the DPI upscaling setting of Windows, which makes them in practise unusable. To fix this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/?p=305\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}