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I downloaded DaVinci Resolve 9 Beta and when I open it in my computer it is to big for my screen.

How can I fix this problem? I attached a screen shot below...

1. Switch off energy saver, auto graphics switch
2. Set display scaling to 1920x1200
3. You might need to toggle the display scaling to 1440x900, and back to 1920x1200 if you get out of GPU memory errors. This clears away the GPU memory for CUDA use.

I have the exact same problem. None of the above tips correct it and I'm not about to work with it (and therefore with my computer in general!) in 1920 mode.

This renders Resolve unusable on the Retina MBP. Bravo. So much for the brilliance of using superfluous non-conform windowing!

Well, I've installed the 9.0.3 update and am amazed to see that this issue STILL has not been addressed!

Not only is the "main window running out the side" nonsense still there, but even far more bizarre: I can't move anything on my second monitor ABOVE the top edge of my main screen... WTF??! Meaning, by the way my two screens are positioned next to each other (the second being higher up), that if I e.g. drag the scopes palette onto the second screen and try to position it mid monitor, it's A NO-GO! The scopes palette bumps up against an invisible barrier that lines up with the top boundary of the main monitor!

You have got to be joking. These two issues combined still make Resolve virtually unusable for me.

I feel sorry for anyone that actually paid $1000 for this (as I had originally planned to also)!

We do state the folowing in the product page:

User interface screen resolution support from 1680 x 1050 up to 2560 x 1440.

Joshua Helling wrote:User interface screen resolution support from 1680 x 1050 up to 2560 x 1440.

So you're saying what exactly? It's my own fault for trying to use a product on a 2560 x 1600 res screen that only supports 1440 (for whatever bizarre reason)? Or that I should know that I need be switching to a different resolution just for working with Resolve?

I'm not going to say what I think of either, and I can't think of a third.

Andie, many people are using Resolve on the 15" rMBP. But you need to select the proper scaling selection in Mac System Prefs / Displays. For Resolution, select the Scaled setting, then select the More Space mode. This is the oft stated "1920x1200" mode. Have you tried that?

Yes, Dwaine. I both get it AND have tried it. But as I also stated, I am hardly going to sacrifice the amazing resolution I paid good money for (and no other app has a problem dealing with), just because ONE app I have insists on using its own GUI nonsense and has a seemingly simple bug that doesn't seem worth fixing, but rather is left to a silly workaround. There's nothing "proper" about that and hardly a professional workflow to be switching back and forth all day, which completely messes up windows and file positions etc. in other apps and the desktop btw. Surely nothing detrimental, but just plain annoying. Hardly an adjective that makes for great PR. I also don't have the screen positioned 4" from my face, making even the MENU hard to read at that resolution on that screen, let alone anything in the interface!

And that's aside the fact that if I'm told it supports 2560 x 1440 (wherever that res can even be seen), that I can (logically) assume it, worst case, should be displayed too SMALL (which I'd be more willing to live with, although equally nonsensical) not too BIG since I'm running at 1600, no?? So I'm not sure what good pointing that out is supposed to do, aside from appearing to somehow put the blame on ME by the looks of it. Pretty lame to say the least.

AND the whole switching thing still doesn't fix the just plain amazingly stupid fact that I can't position palettes at will on a second screen as described above! Seriously?? That just blows my mind. Something I had never seen before in near 15 years of using multiple screens on a Mac!

But not to worry, I've found an alternative that doesn't have these "features", even though I do find Resolve to be the better product otherwise, but those advantages are worthless to me when the software insists on acting like a special-needs, PITA diva. I can only hope this has been worked out (and not just in the form of excuses and workarounds) by the time I get my Digital Cinema... whenever it's actually released. Cheers.