Turn Off Ratio Scaling For Games Mac And You

No the quality isnt quite as high, but you save yourself 300.

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This gives you a smoothly scaled external monitor experience which keeps UI elements approximately the same size as you drag them between the Retina and external display.

If I want 125 scaling I want to create a virtual resolution of 175 of my screens native resolution which will HiDPI scaled down to an effective resolution of 85 of my native resolution making everything appear 15 Larger Brain hurts.

Huh It took me aboooouuut 10 seconds to do it on two displays.

On other 4k resolutions, like 2560x1440 you do not get those options in the Display Settings dialog.

Turn Off Ratio Scaling For Games Mac And You

Your problem is that you have a low-DPI display next to your high-DPI Mac and you expect the picture quality to be compatible.

I expect be be able to scale the OS display so that the visual size of UI elements is consistent across displays.

Its just a shame it isnt an option in the System Preferences like it is in Windows.

No, I dont, I never expected the picture quality to be comparable.

Maybe in the future, when display resolution is retired as a concept (this should happen within 15 years or so).

Apple has experimented with flexible UI scaling for years (a hidden implementation was present in snow leopard and I believe Lion), but they finally decided that its not the right way to go (mainly since it just doesnt work consistently, especially on a low-dpi display).

They have just chosen to be selective with its implementation (no doubt to drive people towards their recommended partner products).

Flexible scaling works just great on resolutions lower than true 4K.

Its just a shame its a pain in the ass to turn on.

It is already supported, its just hidden.

They only support 2x2 scaling (2.0 backing store factor) i.e.

This, in combination with regular resolution switching, is what you can see in Stephen.Rs screenshot.

Mac Turn Off Ratio Scaling For Games