[HELP] 4k Display Scaling

[DJShafman]

Hello everybody
So... I went and got myself a 4k display laptop. I immediately realized that this was a bad idea. I downloaded the battle.net launcher, only to find that it does not scale properly and I had to squint to read the text. Same goes for the logitech software I downloaded immediately after. Steam doubles the pixels, but at least it's readable!
My main point is, since 4k is exactly 2x 1080p, could I just make the 4K display somehow 'double up' on pixels used and convert into a 1080p display being used constantly without windows horribly placing everything out of scale by enlarging all the folders etc? Or can I somehow fix all those applications which do not scale at all (by using some sort of external application perhaps)? This has been a real nightmare, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[bystander]

A couple things that may help you:
1) Right the desktop -> Personalize -> Display -> adjust the size of icons and text.
2) Ctrl-mouse wheel up - will increase the size of text in many programs and all browsers I'm aware of.

Scaling does not appear to work that way on any monitor I've heard of that was tested. You'll get normal scaling issues you are used to, but may still be fine with it for gaming, probably less so for the desktop and text based things.

 

[DJShafman]

A couple things that may help you:
1) Right the desktop -> Personalize -> Display -> adjust the size of icons and text.
2) Ctrl-mouse wheel up - will increase the size of text in many programs and all browsers I'm aware of.

Scaling does not appear to work that way on any monitor I've heard of that was tested. You'll get normal scaling issues you are used to, but may still be fine with it for gaming, probably less so for the desktop and text based things.

Yeah, the text-based apps are the things I am concerned about mainly (such as battlenet, mouse macro software, glyph for that matter! Is there any way to scale those using some external program? I heard it was possible in the past with programs like 'scaler' or suchlike, but is there a way now? (Ctrl + mousewheel doesn't work for applications mentioned above). Thanks!

 

[DJShafman]

Anyone?????

 

[bystander]

What else is there to say?

 

[DJShafman]

What else is there to say?

I was hoping for a way to make those text-based apps scale properly using an external program, as mentioned previously. There are programs like that, just none for 4k that i've heard...

 

[bystander]

The problem is pretty simple, if a program doesn't use the Windows tools which have scaling options, and they don't offer scaling built in their own program, there will not be anything that can be done short of using a lower resolution.