4k with 1080 secondary monitors

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Hi All,

Apologies for the 4k related threads....new stuff gets me excited.

Anyway, I have a 28" 4k monitor as my main monitor now but still have decided to keep my three 1080P 24" monitors around it as I do find them useful and I may actually run the side ones portrait.

To get to the point, I have the main monitor at 150% scaling on 2160p so I can actually see but this makes the 1080 monitors a bit blurry on some text.

I understand the reason, its because of the 150% scaling on the middle monitor which affects the other screens due to windows inability to accurately differentiate...understandable as its still in its infancy but is there a proper fix? 3rd party software to correctly correct the scaling on each monitor permanently?

I have found a workaround that helps which is:

  1. Set desktop scaling via windows to 100% before logging off the computer for the day
  2. This means when it starts up it will remain on 100%
  3. Once you login - change it to 150% or whatever your preferred scaling is
  4. This will now mean you get your lovely 4k workspace at 150%, but the secondary monitors are all sharp and unaffected by the big mouse icon among other things

Not that exhaustive, only requires one extra step when logging in and logging off but still. My other alternative was to DSR the other monitors so they can be set as 4k as well but I don't think that would work out very well.

Thanks
 
Im on windows 10 64bit pro and I can set it on a screen by screen basis as well:
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Issue is, setting the middle one seems to affect the others if you login with it already set at 150%.

Strange, quite a few threads on various forums about it being an issue with no windows native fix at the moment
 
That sounds annoying. I'm about to build a new rig for photography work soon that will have a 4K screen and a 1080p superwide screen. I had read about Windows 10 being able to scale monitors independently so thought I would be all set if there were any issues.

The 4K monitor I'm getting is 31 inches though so perhaps I won't need to use scaling anyway? (I've not used any 4K monitor ever as yet)
 
I use 28" without scaling, but it is definitely small text. 31" is definitely doable, but you may not like it.
 
wunkley said:
That sounds annoying. I'm about to build a new rig for photography work soon that will have a 4K screen and a 1080p superwide screen. I had read about Windows 10 being able to scale monitors independently so thought I would be all set if there were any issues.

The 4K monitor I'm getting is 31 inches though so perhaps I won't need to use scaling anyway? (I've not used any 4K monitor ever as yet)
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To be honest its not bad. As long as you remember to set the scaling back to 100% before logging off, and then change to whatever you want when you log in, the secondary monitors remain sharp. :)

And I think you will need to scale a bit on 31". I am on 28" and 100% is a bit too small to be properly usable so I use 150%.

And you can set each monitor independently, but it glitches the sharpness of the text slightly if you don't do the above

Jim99 said:
I use 28" without scaling, but it is definitely small text. 31" is definitely doable, but you may not like it.
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It is doable, I just think for me, it would be taxing to have 100% scaling all the time. :)
 
Managed to resolve the issue of scaling in a roundabout way.

So the way I had it setup was:
Main monitor - 2160p with 125% scaling
All other three monitors - 1080p with normal scaling - 100%

This was causing glitching in applications etc because even though windows was trying to manage the resolutions and scaling independently it was still affecting it.

So what I am now on:
Main monitor - 2160p with 125% scaling - native res
Other three monitors - 2160p via DSR with 125% scaling and 10% DSR smoothness

Now working perfectly :)
 
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