vegas 9 w7 screen resolution

David Berkeley wrote on 11/22/2009, 2:45 PM

I am using Windows 7, with text size set to 150% of normal. My screen resolution is 1920x1200. In Vegas 9.0c, 64 bit the reported resoution of the video preview window is 2/3 of what it should be. i.e. if the preview windows is half the height of the screen, the status for preview should say Display:960x600x32, but it actually says 640x400. If i change the windows text size to 100%, the preview window shows the correct size.
It appears that Vegas is scaling the preview window and everything else up based on Windows text size, rather than using the actual screen resolution. Is this a bug, or am i missing something?

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MPM wrote on 11/23/2009, 1:15 PM

Running into similar when after updating my ATI graphics card drivers with this month's version, size of text display shrunk. Bumping it up everything from Windows Live Mail to Windows' Explorer & several apps in between have their GUIs stretched &/or program windows enlarged to make room for the bigger text. With Vegas I *Think* the underlying code could be fixed, & you should make the suggestion to Sony, but IMHO it's a matter of not going the extra mile rather than something screwed up or broken -- IOW not an actual bug, but at the moment a penalty for less than perfect eyesight. ;?P

David Berkeley wrote on 11/24/2009, 2:55 PM

My work around is to use small text when using Vegas.
I believe that Windows 7 tells applications (like vegas) that the actual screen resolution is 33% smaller when using 150% text size.
The actual preview size may actually be say 960x540; but Windows 7 says that the window is say 640x360; so vegas is redering video for a 640x360 window and W7 is upsizing to the 960x540; so the video is being resized twice and a bit blurry.
I believe this is a windows 7 introduced bug Sony should address.
I would also imagine that other errors being reported related to previewing and windows 7 are related. I suggest trying using "small text size" with vegas and win7.