monitor resolution question

[p5200]

How do people run their resolution at 1920x1080? I must be missing something because when I set mine like that everything is so small I can't hardly see it. :biggrin: I have the HPw2408h which is capable, am I failing to make other adjustments? Sorry if it's a dumb question.

 

[bjlockie]

That monitor is natively 1920x1200.
Try that resolution.
It'll make the dots taller.

 

[Virgorising]

How do people run their resolution at 1920x1080? I must be missing something because when I set mine like that everything is so small I can't hardly see it. :biggrin: I have the HPw2408h which is capable, am I failing to make other adjustments? Sorry if it's a dumb question.

For whatever it's worth, given my new/used system's feeble but necessary (my chip don have integrated graphics) vid card supports highest native resolution in my screen and went there the second I hooked it up, I too had the same subjective misery you are! And, while I need lenses or glasses to see far away (am very near sighted), my screen is close enough for me to see things perfectly without those.

Eventually, I lowered my resolution.

DO WHAT WORKS FOR YOU!!!!! Your puters are here to SERVE/AUGMENT YOUR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS!!!!!
And....THERE ARE NO DUMB QUESTIONS! Healthy humans celebrate asking re whatever they need to know and are never adverse to just saying what they do not know.:biggrin::thumbsup:
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Edit: you could, of course, raise yr dpis. I never do that, but U could. And, if you lower yr resolution, just keep trying lower ones, making sure you end up with one with the right proportions for yr screen.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

You can also increase the DPI on Windows 7 to make objects bigger. Windows 8 works much better with high resolution monitors, so that's a possibility as well for you if you're not already on it (though it won't help poorly coded applications)

 

[Cerb]

How do people run their resolution at 1920x1080?

I don't even have that high a res, and I use 120DPI. You also have an arbitrary scaling option, which works best at 50% increments (but, don't go overboard, because even some MS software will end up exceeding your screen size).

 

[Virgorising]

I don't even have that high a res, and I use 120DPI. You also have an arbitrary scaling option, which works best at 50% increments (but, don't go overboard, because even some MS software will end up exceeding your screen size).

Yep. I esp like that during the try this resolution, then that one journey, windows gives us the option of seeing the reality and saving the changes or not.

Course, if my screen were three inches (or less) from my face.....I could see every pixel INDIVIDUALLY.:\:biggrin: They don call it nearsighted for nuthin.:|

 

[p5200]

Thanks for all the input folks, I'll play around with it some more and see what I can do.

 

[Virgorising]

Thanks for all the input folks, I'll play around with it some more and see what I can do.

Thanks for being a palpably nice human! Have uber fun in the new journey....discover all your options, you have MANY....AND FOR God's SAKE, again, DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR YOU. You are no way meant to be some slave to your technology....nor, to what other people do, sometimes, not for reasons which earn respect.

To thine own self be true!!!!!!

 

[mv2devnull]

You can also increase the DPI on Windows ...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't "DPI" stand for "dots per inch"? If it does then increasing it would make things smaller.

For example, on old Eizo L885:

dimensions:    1600x1200 pixels (411x311 millimeters)
resolution:    99x98 dots per inch

That is a physical reality.

What the software can and should do, is to adjust the size of drawn objects. Whether to show 32-pixel or 48-pixel icons. Whether to use font-size 8 or 14. ...
(MS might call that "DPI setting"; their nomenclature has a logic of its own.)

 

[Cerb]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't "DPI" stand for "dots per inch"? If it does then increasing it would make things smaller.

Increasing the actual display DPI makes things smaller. Setting it higher, regardless of display, makes things bigger. Most monitors are not 96 DPI, so the "inch" thing has been fuzzy for pretty much ever, anyway (FI, I use a monitor with ~80 DPI, one ~90 DPI, and one ~110 DPI, and with default settings, they're all assumed to be 96 DPI)

 

[dstevod]

That monitor is natively 1920x1200.
Try that resolution.
It'll make the dots taller.

Although most importantly it should look much sharper, as you'd be using the native resolution of the monitor/panel.

S

 

[Virgorising]

Although most importantly it should look much sharper, as you'd be using the native resolution of the monitor/panel.

S

The issue for the poster was, that at the native resolution, things may have been sharper, but they were also uncomfortably small to see easily.

For me, esp on a smaller 20" screen, the latter matters more than the former.