kosakgroove Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Hi guys! I've successfully enabled higher than native resolutions and HiDPI ones in my 1st laptop in signature. Problem is that any resolution I choose with HIDPI looks like a bad Windows XP distro hahaha The font smoothing goes terribly wrong, but only in screen, on the screenshots it looks perfeect. My native res is 1366x768, but for my workflow i have enabled 1920x1080 , 1600x900 and 1440x810 Only the native ones appear in System Preferences, the rest I can access through Retina Display Manager. I dont know why all my resolutions look better without HiDPI, but in the screenshots below you will clearly see, and please do, the difference, when you zoom in, of whats hi dpi or not: Non-HiDPI 1600x900 (Looks pretty good, but not nearly as sharp as the native one) Hi-DPI 1600x900 (in screenshot looks great, in reality it's unbearable) What could be wrong with my settings? This is my display override: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>DisplayProductID</key> <integer>5547</integer> <key>DisplayProductName</key> <string>HackBook Pro Retina</string> <key>DisplayVendorID</key> <integer>3502</integer> <key>scale-resolutions</key> <array> <data>AAAFoAAAAyoAAAABACAAAA==</data> <data>AAAGQAAAA4QAAAABACAAAA==</data> <data>AAALQAAABlQAAAABACAAAA==</data> <data>AAAMgAAABwgAAAABACAAAA==</data> <data>AAAFVgAAAwAAAAABACAAAA==</data> <data>AAAHgAAABDgAAAABACAAAA==</data> <data>AAAPAAAACHAAAAABACAAAA==</data> </array> </dict> </plist> This is my KextToPatch section in Clover, maybe it has some effect? <key>KextsToPatch</key> <array> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>9mb cursor byte</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data> BgAmCgEDAwMAAAACAAAwAQAAYAA= </data> <key>Name</key> <string>AppleIntelFramebufferAzul</string> <key>Replace</key> <data> BgAmCgEDAwMAAAACAAAwAQAAkAA= </data> </dict> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>10.11-BCM94352-5GHz-US-FCC-dv</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data> QYP8/3QsSA== </data> <key>Name</key> <string>AirPortBrcm4360</string> <key>Replace</key> <data> ZscGVVPrKw== </data> </dict> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>HDMI try 1</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data> AgQJAAAEAACHAAAA </data> <key>Name</key> <string>AppleIntelFramebufferAzul</string> <key>Replace</key> <data> AgQJAAAIAACHAAAA </data> </dict> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>Handoff</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data> SIX/dEdIiwc= </data> <key>Name</key> <string>IOBluetoothFamily</string> <key>Replace</key> <data> Qb4PAAAA60Q= </data> </dict> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>logo glitch</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data> AQAAdRc= </data> <key>Name</key> <string>IOGraphicsFamily</string> <key>Replace</key> <data> AQAA6xc= </data> </dict> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>10.11-BCM94352-Airport-Extreme</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data> axAAAHUN </data> <key>Name</key> <string>AirPortBrcm4360</string> <key>Replace</key> <data> axAAAJCQ </data> </dict> </array> </dict> Can anybody please give me some help? I dont know why it looks so bad when I enable HiDPI mode..It is supposed to look better no? And cleaner and more detailed... It looks like my El Capitan turns to Windows XP letters style when I turn on HIDPI mode... But on the screenshots you can clearly say that HiDPI looks better, when you zoom in any letters...Can you help me? It would be so nice to work in HiDPI .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kosakgroove Posted February 14, 2016 Author Share Posted February 14, 2016 The only modes that work ok in HiDPI are :960x5401280x720And they work beautiful, the image is as sharp as with native resolution.1366x768 is native res so no hiDPI but image looks perfect1440x810 works bad with HiDPI but good without1600x900 works bad with HiDPI but good without1920x1080 worksbad with HiDPI but good withoutCan anybody help me get HiDPI working well on those higher resolutions? I've tried many things with the plist but i am lost by now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kosakgroove Posted February 14, 2016 Author Share Posted February 14, 2016 Allrighty, I have figured the pattern for the 16:9 HiDPI resolutions and now it is working much much better. There are still a few bugs in the screen so I am assuming there is something to be improved, take a look:I doubled every entry, and in the copied one,I modified the ending of 00000001 00200000 (known to be necessary) to 00000009 00200000 It works much much better when I am in a HiDPI resolution There is still a few bugs, so I would loveif someone could suggest a way to work on that... any non-HiDPI resolution still looks a bit better than the HiDPI one, but not when you screenshot. I guess there are improvements to be done to this plist.. Anybody have a suggestion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Hey, you have 1366x768 in HiDPI resolution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kosakgroove Posted February 15, 2016 Author Share Posted February 15, 2016 No because it's my native one! I just understood recently you cannot use a HiDPI resolution if it is higher or equal than the one of your screen. So I've made some changes. I've removed all the resolutions I didnt want from SysPrefs. Now I just need to display 1440x810, 1600x900, 1920x1080 in Sysprefs, because they only appear in RDM. The only ones appearing in SysPrefs are the native ones. Also, HiDPI resolutions (the highest with HiDPI being 1280x800) only appear in RetinaDisplayManager.Any way to change this to make them appear in the native SysPrefs Menu? Hey, you have 1366x768 in HiDPI resolution? I can give you a help if you give me your Display Override and tell me what's your native resolution. I have successfully figured out what works or not when enabling HiDPI on 16:9 or 16:10 screens. Give me a shout and I help 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Hmm, my current resolution is 1366x768 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kosakgroove Posted February 15, 2016 Author Share Posted February 15, 2016 Hmm, my current resolution is 1366x768 Well then you have it like me. You can only have HiDPi resolutions inferior to 1366x768. They will work good. But if you want higher than native there is no HiDPI (it works but it is a big loss of quality compared to non HiDPI) Also, your native resolution cannot be HiDPIed because its already at the max of your displays capability. If you wanna enable higher resolutions tell me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 If you wanna enable higher resolutions tell me. Wow! Good idea. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kosakgroove Posted February 15, 2016 Author Share Posted February 15, 2016 Wow! Good idea. Just let me know Allan, being of help to you seems like a dream heheheh Cheers brother I have enabled up to 1920x1080 in my 1366x768, and everything in between, plus some HiDPI resolutions. Being of assistance to an InsanelyMac crew member is just nuts hahahha Let me know if you wanna do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 In fact, I was studying as you did to repeat here. But now, i don't have more time for this. But thank you for your help, and if I need do this in the future, I know where to find. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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