Vegas Pro on Hi Res Monitor

Jakie wrote on 2/2/2017, 4:04 PM

Does anyone know where to find a tutorial that would explain how to get Vegas Pro 12 to play nice with a Hi Res Monitor in Win 7? I have a 15” laptop display with 2880x1620
resolution and have not been able to find the right combinations of settings in
Windows Appearance Settings to get readable screens when running Vegas
Pro. (Other apps, mostly older ones, have the same issue)

Most apps work ok with every font setting in Windows
Appearance Settings bumped up and bold turned on and the DPI custom setting of
250% or 300%. But Vegas pro and a few
other apps just are unusable because the fonts are either too large or too
small.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jakie

Lenovo W540, Quad Core I7 ~2.7 GHz, 32 GB RAM, GPU NVIDIA Quadro K2100M

Win 7 Pro, Vegas Pro 12

Comments

astar wrote on 2/2/2017, 6:55 PM

I think VP12 was programmed back when monitors were 640x480. ;) There may not be a solution to that problem, it has been discussed at length in other posts.

NickHope wrote on 2/2/2017, 11:57 PM

Maybe something in this thread can help you: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/vp14-high-dpi-issues-blurry-buttons--103688/

Jakie wrote on 2/3/2017, 1:26 PM

Thanks Nick. It looks like those folks are trying to fix the problem but haven't yet succeeded. With as many hi res monitors and laptops as there are, you would think the (Sony/Magix) software engineers would fix the problem.

Jam_One wrote on 2/3/2017, 2:29 PM

15" ?...
2880x1620 ?...

2880x1620 is a damn bloody overkill.
Please try setting your "Desktop resolution" using nVidia control panel to Full HD = 1920x1080.

Then in Windows control panel everything to "100%".

If the results are still not satisfactory, you may wish to try even lower resolution of 1600x900.

The thing to remember is: You do have to operate the screen resolution NOT the elements magnification.

Forget "magnification", it was last working immaculate on Windows XP. Since Win-7 it's basically "to read books".

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Q.: So, why do they sell the 15" screen with 2880x1620 pixels?
A.: Because marketologists told them "the longer pixel cont - the better!"

Jakie wrote on 2/4/2017, 4:06 PM

Yes, lowering the resolution is an improvement but it is not enough for high productivity use. There are uses for high res monitors and as popular as they are, software venders should accommodate the demand. Look at the threads on this site alone to get a sense of the problem. We do not live 680 x 480 world anymore.

Jake