MLO on Windows 8.1 and very high resolution screens

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Richard C

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Nov 22, 2014, 3:34:25 PM11/22/14
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Does anybody have any experience of using MLO on Windows 8.1 at very high resolutions (3200 x 1880)?


I am about to upgrade to a new laptop and think I might get something with the above specification.


The reviews I have read indicate that even with the Windows 8.1 scaling set to display icons and text at an easy to use size,  some older programs do not work with these settings (eg dialog boxes are very small).


Does anybody have any experience of this?


And does MLO work OK with Windows 8.1.  Is there anything I need to know.


Thanks


Richard


Richard C

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Nov 24, 2014, 6:29:19 PM11/24/14
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Ok - does anybody have any experience with MLO and resolutions such as 1920 x 1024?

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Nov 24, 2014, 10:41:30 PM11/24/14
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That seems to work fine on W7. 


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robisme (Olivier R)

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Nov 25, 2014, 2:16:01 AM11/25/14
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I have a W8 1930*1024, plus it's a small screen (Dell Venue 11 pro) and everything is OK.
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Nov 25, 2014, 3:32:14 AM11/25/14
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1920 x 1080 here on Windows 8.1. Everything works fine, but the font is a bit blurry, which is ok.

Richard C

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Nov 29, 2014, 3:04:42 PM11/29/14
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Thanks everybody.    That's helpful.   I sounds as if MLO is well behaved in terms of the way it deals with resolutions

I can get the laptop I want with a 1920 x 1024 resolution but the higher res one is only slightly more expensive and would be nice.  But 


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Lisa Stroyan

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Dec 4, 2014, 12:37:43 AM12/4/14
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Apologies if my reply is too late to help. I'm running on a Samsung Ativ Book 9 with 3200 x 1800 high-resolution display and 8.1. MLO works great. 

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No - not decided yet so that it very helpful (and reassuring). Thank
you, Lisa

Off topic follow up question: have you had any problems with any other
applications running at that resolution. I still use Ecco (for time
recording) for which support ceased 10-15 years ago and I wondering how
that would cope with such a high resolution.

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Photoshop elements has tiny text though there may be workarounds I haven't tried. Works fine you ashtray know where things are. But most hi res computers can run at a lower resolution if you are desperate.

I didn't try to port my old apps. I replaced old style Eudora (though need a solution to search old mail archives) and Outlook both with EMClient,  upgraded Dragon, Master Cook, and still have a few others I haven't dealt with.I doubt screen resolution would be your biggest problem though if a program isn't updated.

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Dec 4, 2014, 1:49:01 PM12/4/14
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Historically I've always found it much better to run a monitor at it's 'native' resolution otherwise everything get blurred. Window has a fudge that allows you to change "Set custom text size (DPI)", which helps somewhat to make higher resolution monitors easier to read, however I found that if you push it to more than about 125% you get horrible things happening to the layout of many applications and browser, with thing like Submit buttons sometimes disappearing completely. 

I've always been a big fan of higher resolutions but 3200 x 1800 on a 13(?) inch screen is asking for trouble so I'd definitely advocate caution.

There was a rumour that the upgrade from Win8 to Win8.1 helped to some extent with the text sizing issue. Does anyone now how much if at all it helped?  

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Richard C

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Windows 8.1 does apparently contain some significant improvements with regard to font/scaling - one of which is that you can switch it off for individual applications - so you can have a choice between readable but screwed up;  and not screwed up but very small.

Lisa's experience would seem to indicate that the very high res option on a laptop seems to be Ok.

But you are right - it is wise to be cautious.   However,  as I only get a new laptop once every 3-4 years, I want the current one to be as good as it can be.

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Thanks, Lisa.  Your point about it working fine if you know where stuff is is helpful.

And one other point that i have just realised is that I understand that you can change the scaling and resolution dynamically in Windows 8.1, so if there are occasions where an app is misbehaving, then one can switch resolutions to a low res screen, do what one needs to and then 

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