Tiny application icons on high dpi screen

3DPiper

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I purchased a new notebook with a high dpi screen (3200x1800)..

My application icons are TINY, I can barely see them!

I have tried to up the 'make larger' under screen resolution, but that only
worked with the fonts/text in the application menus (not the icons)..

See an example with Sony Vegas here:

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can this be solved? Office apps scale correctly, IE scales correctly, but most others do not
(adobe, Sorenson squeeze, sony vegas, etc)..

Help!
 

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Welcome to the world of high resolution screens. It seems lots of people just assume/expect that higher is better, but don't realize that things like you mention here are going to happen.

For example, on my MacBookPro, the retina display says it's 2560x1600. But on a 13" screen, that would really prove unusable. Thus, the Mac runs a 1280x800 with the pixels doubled, so it's extremely sharp, but things are much larger on the screen. I personally don't like things that big at all, so I run a scaled resolution of 1680x1050. That's my happy medium between quality and high resolution.
 

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Thanks guys,

As I said, I have already played with the 'make everything bigger' option, but that only affects the fonts/text.. The app icons do not change..

I believe this is a scaling issue within the app itself.

For instance, if I set an external manifest for an adobe program and tell it that the program NOT dpiaware, it does in fact scale up all icons and text..

Apparently this was a known problem and adobe has fixed it with an update for their mac apps and the windows users are waiting for theirs..

EDIT: Aha! Yes, if I edit the manifest in Vegas and tell it dpiAware is FALSE, everything scales correctly.. See here:

http://i60.tinypic.com/dcsk29.jpg

so is this a Windows 8 issue, or a program issue?
 
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If you increase the DPI to 125 or 150%, everything gets bigger.
 

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Uh, no.. That's the whole point of this thread.. On High DPI screens, program interface icons are NOT scaling up.. My DPI was already set to %200 because W8 recognized the high dpi screen.. Everything looked great but the icons (see above)
 

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Uh, no.. That's the whole point of this thread.. On High DPI screens, program interface icons are NOT scaling up.. My DPI was already set to %200 because W8 recognized the high dpi screen.. Everything looked great but the icons (see above)

Sorry but I don't know what you are referring to on your screenshot. All I see is a grey mush. I have only 40% eyesight.

The icons in the taskbar I can clearly see and those seem to be bigger than at 100%.
 

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Did you already try this below to make everything bigger in the modern UI?

Everything in the modern desktop works fine.. Most apps in the regular desktop work fine as well (Office apps, etc).. Adobe apps and others do not.. These are all on the standard desktop, not the modern desktop.

The "make everything bigger" makes everything bigger EXCEPT the program UI icons.. There is a scaling issue either with windows or the program itself, I don't know which.

Sorry but I don't know what you are referring to on your screenshot. All I see is a grey mush. I have only 40% eyesight.
The icons in the taskbar I can clearly see and those seem to be bigger than at 100%.

It is not the icons in the taskbar, it is the icons for the programs user interface.. Check this pic:

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The icon sections in red are what I see when I set dpiAware to FALSE and are the proper scaled size.. They are located near the icon sections that are mega tiny by default (dpiAware=TRUE)..
Clearly, there is a scaling issue..
 

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3DPiper,

That's what we needed to be clarified. Unfortunately, the icons in the program's UI is controlled by the program and not Windows. :(

Hopefully that program will have an updated version that will display better soon. You might contact the app's developer to see what they have to say about a future update for this.
 

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EDIT: Aha! Yes, if I edit the manifest in Vegas and tell it dpiAware is FALSE, everything scales correctly

Hi - I have the same issue - had it in Win 8 and now in Win 10. Sony said "Vegas Pro 13 is not optimized for display on very high-DPI monitors..."

I'd like to try your solution, but I have no idea how to edit a manifest. I did some research but could not find anything "simple" - maybe I'm missing something.

Please let me know, or direct me to where I can find out how to do this.


Thank you!



 

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Windows 10 Vegas 13 problem

{Please, Please help, that would help us out so much! Thanks for reading!}

Dear 3DPiper and others

I'm in the exact same situation as Alan... I'm on Windows 10 as well and my icons are really small in Sony Vegas Pro 13. I have been doing a lot of research about the manifest file of Vegas. However, I cannot succeed in editing it or creating an external one...
I have put so many hours into this problem, yet I haven't found a solution. :(
To you reading this, I beg you to please help me and the others, and Alan, out. That would mean so much to us!!!

If you have any questions about our problem, feel free to ask.

If anyone would be so kind to help us out, thank you very, very, very much! It would mean the wolrd to us!
(sorry for being a bit pushy)

Kind Regards
Dre
 

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Dear Daskeladden and others

First of all I would like to Thank you for bringing up a solution that works! Thank you very much!

When I got Vegas to scale correctly, I was really glad to see it working, however after rebooting my laptop, the scaling issue returned... I can refix it every time I boot up my laptop, but as you might understand, that's not really that practical.
Do you know how I could be able to apply this solution permanently? That would be such a huge help! Thanks a lot for replying!

kind regards
Dre
 

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