Just an example of changing the DPI on the wide-screen monitor to be something less than its 'native resolution'. Another thing that helped was choosing a resolution for my wide-screen monitor which matched the aspect ratio of my Tablet, though I don't know if that was just a coincidence or (Apparently the proper keywords instead of my interpretation of these details is sub-pixel anti-aliasing, grayscale or color.)įWIW my workaround in IE is always to use a Zoom higher than 100%. When tilting Tablets from Landscape into Portrait orientation. Supposedly this was the answer to complaints about color fringes caused by ClearType and also to solve related problems Previous guesses were about ClearType and the change from multi-color pixel interpolation down to just grey-scale pixel interpolation. Here are a couple of comparison screenshots of the external display showing File Explorer and Visual Studio 2013: Is anyone able to help resolve this or is it simply a bad implementation of per-display scaling? I've posted to this forum in the hope there will be other people with a similar setup.

Is this how Microsoft have implemented per-display scaling? There is no way I can tolerate such blurriness on the external display especially as I intend to use it mainly for development so clarity of text is important. So my guess is that Windows is rendering my external display off-screen at 200% and then crunching it down to 100% via bitmap processing.

I have a fully updated version of Windows 8.1 Pro Update 1. I verified that the externalĭisplay is being driven at the correct resolution via the monitor's own information option which says 2560 x 1440 at 60Hz (I was at least pleased that the Intel HD 4400 graphics were able to drive both displays at their proper resolution with 32-bitĬolour and at 60Hz).

So I tried the option for setting one scaling of 100% for all displays and now the external display is sharp as it should be, but the internal display is obviously useless in desktop mode because everything is too small. However, all content on the external display is blurry. I have just bought an Asus PB278Q which has a resolution of 2560 x 1440 which I run at 100% scaling, and which I want to use for development. I have a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro which has a resolution of 3200 x 1800 which I run at 200% scaling.

Windows 8 external monitor