Op15L Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 I bought a 4k LG IPS display. I use this monitor with ati HD 5770 1920x1080 40Hz in HiDPI (4k scaled to fullHD). setting 4k not scaled I have interface elements too small, setting 4k scaled to 1080p I have interface elements too large, it's possibile scale less then 1080p? In retina mac display display setting appears like this: with my monitor this: if I press 'alt' more resolutions is showed but only "low resolution" not HiDPI. There is a solution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBloke Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 I thought the same thing with my 4K display. In Windows 10 it is much nicer, I can just set a UI multiplier, eg 125%, 150%, and everything is scaled smoothly. I haven't found a way to achieve this in macOS. Setting a lower resolution isn't the same, as A. it doesn't look sharp and B. it scales everything, where Windows 10 only scales text/UI elements, not video/pictures etc. Which is a shame, because macOS has a nice zoom function as well as the Retina scaling mentioned, so it could definitely do this if they implemented it. If anyone knows of a way, I'd love to know as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denicio Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I bought a 4k LG IPS display. I use this monitor with ati HD 5770 1920x1080 40Hz in HiDPI (4k scaled to fullHD). setting 4k not scaled I have interface elements too small, setting 4k scaled to 1080p I have interface elements too large, it's possibile scale less then 1080p? In retina mac display display setting appears like this: with my monitor this: if I press 'alt' more resolutions is showed but only "low resolution" not HiDPI. There is a solution? Here you go: http://avi.alkalay.net/software/RDM/ Try the resolutions with a small lightning icon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBloke Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Here you go: http://avi.alkalay.net/software/RDM/ Try the resolutions with a small lightning icon. Thank you for this, but could you explain a bit more about what this is/does? It will change how Display->Scaled appears or operates? EDIT: never mind, I found the documentation here: Github/avibrazil/RDM. EDIT 2: Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work at all for me. Whenever I select nearly all of the resolutions from the RDM menu, my main monitor goes completely black. This happened with all options I tried for the 4K display (with and without lightning symbol) except 2560x1600, which did give me a picture but with black bars either side. Maybe this doesn't work with my particular monitor. Or maybe it's because I am currently on an NVidia GPU, not AMD as maybe the RDM software expects. I hope to change to AMD GPU in the next week so I will try it again then. Thanks for posting it anyway. Maybe it will work OK for the OP on his system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBloke Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 On 02/03/2018 at 7:21 PM, TheBloke said: Or maybe it's because I am currently on an NVidia GPU, not AMD as maybe the RDM software expects. I hope to change to AMD GPU in the next week so I will try it again then. Thought I would report back that yes, this was the issue - it doesn't work on NVidia (at least not for me), but works fine now I am using an AMD 7970. I can now change to any HiDPI resolution and it looks great. Ironically I think I will actually stick to 3840x2160 because I've got used to it now, but it's great to know I now have the option Thanks @Denicio 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Op15L Posted April 11, 2018 Author Share Posted April 11, 2018 I changed the video card from HD5770 to a simple nvidia 710 and now I have a full scaling control Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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