QHD+ screen running in non-native resolution - how does it look?

Owners of the m4800 and m3800 (or any other QHD+ screen running at 3200 x 1800) - how does the screen look when running in non-native resolutions? What are the available resolutions on these screens? I ordered the m4800 and did a bit of research into Adobe CC/CS6. Turns out that Premiere, After Effects, and Photoshop do NOT have UI scaling, so they are pretty much unusable at the full 3200 x 1800 because the interface is so small. Wondering if I might be able to drop the res down to 1920 x (??). Thanks for your help!

 

Now that you have the computer, what was the answer to your own question? Does it work to just scale it down to use programs like Adobe After Effects?

Thanks!

 

Those programs work perfectly well on my external QHD display. The size is consistent throughout and I detect no incompatibly with the interface whatsoever.

 

IIRC the complaints were due to the high resolution vs screen size.

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I knew somebody was going to say that.


RIP MacPro

 

Really my M3800 looks pretty good at 1920x1080. I would be very comfortable using that resolution on the screen. Not perfectly sharp but really not bad at all. Also, while 1600x900 isn't very high resolution, it is 1/2 the linear resolution so the display handles it quite nicely.

 

I use mine at native res all day. I tried 1920 x 1080, and it looks fine, if a tiny bit fuzzy.

My housemate uses his XPS15 at 1920 x 1080 to keep the text size larger (he is a developer), and has no complaints.

 

This was leaked about the Windows update coming in April. Do you think this will fix it?

Built-in font scaling to 500 percent. Wzor notes that 250 percent font scaling is set as the default when you install on a monitor with more than 1,800 vertical pixels

 

This affects DPI scaling, and has nothing to do with running a non-native resolution.

Anyway, I suspect that this will fix nothing. Looks like they've just added some more default options to the control panel when you are on a high-DPI display. I'm surprised if they changed the default to 250% for the QHD+ display (200% is completely adequate). Anyway, it was already possible to set 250% and 500% options when using the "Custom sizing options" dialog box.

 

Yeah, it gets a little blurry, but it's usable. Exactly half resolution (1600x900) is a little better; I've got mine dual boot (8.1 for normal use, 7 for Photoshop, Eclipse and video games) and using it at 1600x900 for a few hours is not bad.

Windows 8.1 has some issues with running some games full screen; setting a lower resolution in-game results in window-boxing (black bars on all 4 sides) from the native resolution for a LOT of games. For some games, setting the desktop resolution down fixes it (at least some of the time) but for some others, nothing fixes it. Pretty sure that's a Windows 8.1-specific problem, as they all play fine at lower resolutions on Windows 7 (although my desktop resolution is already set to 1600x900 in there.)