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Hello,

first of all: Sorry for my english

I have a hi-resolution 5k 34-inch monitor. To be able to comfortably read everything, I habe scaled Windows 10 to 150%.

When I start Resove 17 Beta (this ist my first Resove, I come from premiere), all Fonts (Menus, Filenames, etc.) and Programicons are very large. It feels, as if the fonts are twice the size of the rest of Windows 10.
I haven't bought a large monitor because of my bad eyes, but to see more content !

When I go back to 125% scale in Windows, and start Resolve again, the fonts and Icons in Resolve are extremely small (I nearly can't read anything). Smaller than the fonts in all other Windows-Applications.

I've already tried to configure Resolve in Windows to let Windows scale the application (you can do this by turning on the compatibility mode for the application). So, the font-size looks good, but it's not very sharp and Windows scales everything, so also my video content is not very sharp on my screen.

So, what can I do?

Thank you.

Unfortunately, nothing. Poor DPI Scaling in Windows 10 is an old persisting problem with Resolve. You only get a perfect GUI rendition when running at 100% scaling... I'm running it at 150% on a 28" 4K Samsung screen and it's heartbreaking when I compare it on the same screen with Resolve on MacOS on my Mac Mini M1.

Display Scaling should always be set to 100%. If things are too small, you need a physically larger monitor.

Heiko Thies wrote:Unfortunately, nothing. Poor DPI Scaling in Windows 10 is an old persisting problem with Resolve. You only get a perfect GUI rendition when running at 100% scaling... I'm running it at 150% on a 28" 4K Samsung screen and it's heartbreaking when I compare it on the same screen with Resolve on MacOS on my Mac Mini M1.

Why can't they solve this problem? I come from Prmeiere Pro (with no scaling problems). So this can prevent me from using Resolve. I thought this is a professional program ... and 4k Monitors are state-of-the-art since many years.

Jim Simon wrote:Display Scaling should always be set to 100%. If things are too small, you need a physically larger monitor.

Why that? Especially when cutting video, I want to see my footage as sharp as possible. And this means: The pixels should be as small as possible. Do you know what I mean? This works in all other apps!
What about all alle new notebooks, with hi-dpi displays? They sometimes have 4k on 15 inch.

No need to argue that point. This is simply and quite frustratingly something Blackmagic hasn't gotten right up to this point. You are correct, Adobe can scale cleanly on Windows and on MacOS Resolve does scale cleanly too. For whatever reason they can't get Resolve to scale cleanly on Windows 10. But Windows 10 scaling is in and on itself rather problematic, looks like Apple has done a better job with that on MacOS than Microsoft with Windows.

The argument you need a bigger screen floats around a lot when this topic is being discussed. It's not wrong per se but since MacOS apparantly scales too to make text and GUI elements readable on smaller screens with high DPI, I think one can argue it's not up to the user to buy a bigger screen, but to expect the software to scale flawlessly since there are enough cases demonstrating for it to be clearly possible.

I for one have given up trying to fix this, I live with the mushy GUI on 150% scaling on windows. It's not very clean but it also won't affect me much working with Resolve.