Can't believe I literally watched *80* minutes of some dude showing random Windows programs at all possible scales... You must be really devoted into making these videos, great job!! P.s. IIRC, in Windows 8.1 scaling was improved a little in one of the later updates (which sometimes gets called as "Windows 8.1.1" among the themers community as it've broken all the custom themes again, lol). Not sure which version used in the video, though.
I fell asleep watching and woke up with the video not finished yet, you spent so much time to make an entire 1 hour video about scaling. That’s some insane dedication for 50k views. The work and time put into making this should be rewarded better.
39:52 Here's why there's no date on 400% and 500%: The taskbar's height is dependent on 2 things, the base height done by explorer.exe, and the ContentMargins from the msstyles. For the large taskbar, the base height is 32px, while ContentMargins add 4px at the top and 4px at the bottom, so it becomes 40px tall. Most ContentMargins do not scale, so on 500% the height will be 168px (160px base height + 4px top ContentMargins + 4px bottom ContentMargins). Small taskbar is worse as its base height is only 16px, while having 7px of top and bottom ContentMargins, which make it 30px tall. On 500% scaling, the small taskbar is only 94px tall. That's around 35% shorter than how it should be! However, this bug has been fixed in Windows 10. The exact same thing was the reason why the spacing between the menu items didn't scale from Windows Vista to 10.
Windows 11 elements scale so nicely because they've been completely rewritten with XAML. Also every icon on new system programs is now an SVG and since it's flat design (there is pretty much no details besides opacity and blurring) everything "just works".
28:36 As you said in an old video, the security options and the logon screen both run under the SYSTEM user, but DPI scaling only applies to the user account only, not the main computer itself.
22:11 basically, the reason why the drive icon is different is because the icon has a low resolution, and resizing it makes it more blurry or pixelated, so it uses a high quality but different icon.
DWM Scaling seems to be working great. Unlike in Windows XP to 7 (And Windows 8's Desktop UI) where they just get crushed up, Unlike in Windows 10, 11, and Windows 8's metro UI, they use better DWM Scaling, which makes the UI the same as it was as using 100%
One thing you forgot to mention when it comes to Windows 10+ scaling: when you set a custom Scaling %, it will apply to all screens. Only the scaling slider/drop-down that Windows provides is on a per-screen basis unfortunately
4:39 out of everything, calculator looks the best. 1:05:15 the title is sometimes "Solitaire collection" and sometimes "Microsoft solitaire collection" 1:12:40 took them 20 years to put the warning that it can be difficult to go back
Great video! I work on making and modifying msstyles, so I pretty much know all of this. Also, XP on 125% use the titlebar buttons that are intended to be used on 150%, which shows how poor the DPI implementation is in XP. The only way you can get the real 125% titlebar buttons is to decrease the titlebar size by 1 while on 125%. Windows 7 and 8.x however, do have 200% titlebar buttons in their msstyles, but they are unused? I'm pretty sure there are 200% scale titlebar buttons in those msstyles, but I haven't scaled these OSes to 200% before.
Yes, the caption buttons in Windows XP did seem a bit big at 125% scale, and the right size at 150%. I was surprised that even in Windows 11 the caption buttons for Win32 still don't scale above 200% when most of the UI scales OK now up to 400%, and even the menu bar spacing is fixed. In UWP apps the caption buttons scale to 400%.
@@World_of_OSes You should look at how Microsoft makes msstyles. It is pretty much why Win32 UI scaling sucks. First off, it uses images. For the ones used as backgrounds (buttons, combo boxes, menus, etc) they only use one image for all DPI levels. That's why most of the UI has a 1px outline regardless the DPI. The "3D theme" looking messed up in Vista and 7 is because Microsoft specified the sizing margins (which specifies the parts that should not be stretched) to also include the glow in the images for these UI elements, if they have only specified the outline, the "3D theme" would've looked normal on higher DPI. DWM titlebar buttons do not scale in the same ways as other scaled UI controls (such as checkboxes, combobox glyphs, and even the Basic theme's titlebar buttons), as DWM titlebar buttons use proprietary parts, for 100, 125, 150, and 200% respectively, while anything else that's scaled in the msstyles uses MINDPI (it has 7 increments in Windows 10, previously 5 in Windows 8.1 and 3 in Windows 8 and 7), and these increments can even be modified to any DPI (default is 100, 125, 150, 200, 250, 300, and 400%), so if you disable DWM on a modern Windows 10 or Windows 11, the buttons would scale to 400%. Nothing funnier than this.
@@winexperiments 25:03 In Windows 7 the non-DWM caption buttons still only scale up to 150%. 15:15 But the Classic caption buttons scale all the way up to 500%. 46:54 In Windows 8.1 the non-DWM caption buttons scale at 125%, but not at 150%, but they do again at 200% and 250%, but not at 400% or 500%. 57:10 In Windows 10 the non-DWM caption buttons scale all the way up to 400%.
I also wonder if editing registry on windows vista/7 would work to set a lower dpi, as theres an option for windows xp scalling. And i wonder if windows 8 and above still have the option but hidden, so you can scale on those aswell.
I'm near sighted (wearing glasses) and my laptop has a 15.6 inch 1920x1080 screen. I use 125% scaling, which by default makes everything blurry, however I found a patch online that actually makes it look really good and sharp
21:54: So ... they fixed the gadgets picker in Win7, but broke all the gadgets. I laughed. Also, they're not the "wrong" icons, they just made more detailed icons that get used when possible.
@@ThatRandomToast 1600x900 is probably the sweet spot for 14 inch laptops. 1920x1080 is good on 17 inch laptops and monitors up to 24 inch. 2560x1440 can be good for 27 inch monitors and 32 inch monitors, but I don't like screens that big anyway because of the head movement. To use 4K at 100% scale you would need a 40 inch monitor which would just be ridiculous. I quite like 1920x1200 on a 24 inch monitor because it has a bit more vertical space, the pixel density is low enough that I can easily use it at 100% scale and the size is small enough that I can see the entire screen without having to make significant head movements.
1920x1080 at 100% probably is still a bit small on a 14 inch laptop, 1366x768 is just not enough real-estate to do anything with, 1600x900 is the happy middle-ground for a 14 inch laptop.
DPI scaling is actually not too bad in modern versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11, as long as you have it at exactly 200%, so that non-DPI-aware apps can get nearest-neighbour scaled. 125% and 150% are bad because they make non-DPI-aware apps look blurry. So you need a screen that is either low enough to use at 100% (90 - 120 DPI), or high enough to use at 200% (180 - 240 DPI), DPIs between 120 and 180 are bad because they are too high to use at 100%, but too low to use at 200%.
@@ThatRandomToast I personally would consider the sweet spot for 100% 1080p to be around 14 inch, while 15.6 inch really need some sort of custom resolution display, something between 1080p and 1440p. Of course for casual use it isn't that optimal, but Windows laptop is mostly for work anyway.
1:14:42 -- Interestingly enough, 125% is the only scale resolution that features smaller navigation pane items' padding. Seems like a bug but I hope they WON'T fix it, as it makes it look better for me
Some of the rest of the tracks aren't as bad. It's only the 1st track that's really bad. Maybe I should have chosen a different 1st track... I think that's turned a few viewers away.
@@World_of_OSes Some tracks you could try: - Timecrawler 82 - Mt. Fuji - Neon.Deflector - Star Dreamer - EVA - 失望した - Stevia Sphere - ししおどし - Jeremy Blake - Pixelated Autumn Leaves - Jeremy Blake - Into the Sky - Verified Picasso - Asleep I use an earphone and even noticed many tracks you used since the rebranding to World of OSes are very intense.
Was there any particular track(s) that were God tier or were all of them God tier? 0:00:00 - Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release] 0:03:56 - HurricaneTurtle - Stargate [Synthwave] from Royalty Free Planet 0:09:22 - Kevin MacLeod - Cut Trance 0:13:02 - Space Age Hustle - Squadda B 0:14:52 - Kevin MacLeod - Killing Time 0:18:16 - Timecrawler 82 - Phantasia 0:22:25 - Andromedik - With Me [NCS Release] 0:26:14 - Tobu - Candyland [NCS Release] 0:29:32 - Approaching Nirvana - Keystone (Original) 0:33:06 - LFZ - Popsicle [NCS Release] 0:37:31 - Punch Deck - Neon Underworld 0:45:15 - Kevin MacLeod - The Ice Giants 0:42:29 - Vladmsorensen - Titan [Synthwave] from Royalty Free Planet 0:46:48 - Approaching Nirvana - Even While 0:50:35 - Pulsar Glitch - OVERCLOCK 0:55:54 - Jay Jen and Luminoiz - Sunlight 0:58:20 - Natural Light - Chris Haugen 1:02:20 - Sometime When You fall, You Fly 1:04:51 - Kevin MacLeod - Newer Wave 1:07:45 - Kevin MacLeod - Pamgaea 1:10:34 - Elektronomia - Magic 1:14:11 - Slashtaq & Wanden - Full Speed Ahead [NCS Release] 1:17:11 - INTRNLCMD - Nightcrawler
My laptop has 14 inches screen with QHD (2560x1440) resolution. I broke my old 1080p screen, so I decided to upgrade to QHD one since it was cheaper (brighter, and wider color gamut to ARGB) lol. At 100% scaling is just so small, if I need the real estate then I will tolerate it. Normally I use 125% scaling since it should have similar scaling to 1080p@100% so the text looks sharper except that some programs are just blurry. 150% is the scaling when I take off my glasses. higher than that are disgustingly big for me, I really hate it.
When choosing a display, it is best to get one that is either low enough DPI to use at 100%, or high enough to use at 200%. In-between is bad because it makes the UI too small at 100%, but too big at 200%, so you end up having to go 125% or 150% which causes the non-DPI-aware apps to look blurry.
I couldn't get Windows Vista to go above 3840x2400, and 500% scale at 3840x2400 or 3840x2160 would be too big. Most of the Vista UI would look the same Windows 7 anyway. 18:44
I have only 6 VM at my computer, although I have so few VMs, 4 GB is free on the hard disk. And my processor is old, so it does not support Virtualization Technology
In command prompt properties, bitmap fonts (Raster Fonts) are a fixed size in pixels whereas TrueType fonts scale. (It even recommends TrueType fonts for high DPI displays)
Windows 10 and 11 uses Consolas as its default font on its command prompt whereas Windows 8.1 and older uses Raster Fonts. You can also use the Consolas font in Windows XP to 8.1 and Raster Fonts on Windows 10 and 11.
@@innerdiscarchive Unfortunately Consolas is unusable for a command prompt due to it being badly hinted (it’s one of those fonts that Microsoft ruined to promote ClearType)
On the 1920x1200 monitor, the Metro scale is 140%, on the 1280x800 monitor the Metro scale is 100%. 1920x1200 at 140% is equivalent to 1372x856 at 100%. 1920x1200 at 150% is equivalent to 1280x800 at 100%. The Metro scale can only be 100% or 140%. The desktop scale is 150% which provides the same UI-sizing on both monitors.
100% DPI in Two Laptops both Acer Aspire from 2012 (1366x768) and HP ProBook from 2013 (1600x900). My Laptop Acer is connect to TV using HDMI Cable with 1080p Screen, 100% DPI in 1080p running my LG TV 32 inch.
You can disable cleartype using tools like Better ClearType Tuner, but some fonts like the default Segoe UI look much much better with subpixel rendering at 100% scaling compared to without, like Windows XP's Tahoma.
@@gammaboost That’s because Microsoft deliberately manipulated the hinting in certain fonts like Segoe UI, Calibri, and Consolas to make the standard mode seem artificially worse and promote the ClearType render mode, in effect ruining Microsoft’s typographical quality.
Man I miss windows xp, 7, 8 and 8.1 where everything was perfect and fluent. Win 10 is beautiful, but is nightmare. Ram usage never been high, even online games started to lag, start is buggy, lite versions are not completed, they have bugs. I never found perfect lite version without breaking something. I wish they return to nostaliga windowses where everything was beautiful and perfect and had point. Now I need SSD and 1500$+ computer. When I wanted to install NVIDIA drivers yesterday on windows 7, I couldnt. 476 version couldnt install by setup, I had to use device manager, which comes without NVIDIA control panel. Chrome lags, Win 8.1 is ugly, startisback doesnt work properly, fuck.
19:15 This menu is actually 2500% scaled.
I wonder why
Can't believe I literally watched *80* minutes of some dude showing random Windows programs at all possible scales... You must be really devoted into making these videos, great job!!
P.s. IIRC, in Windows 8.1 scaling was improved a little in one of the later updates (which sometimes gets called as "Windows 8.1.1" among the themers community as it've broken all the custom themes again, lol). Not sure which version used in the video, though.
my man has a whole arsenal of ISO files while i only have like 15 iso files in one folder totally unorganized
Thx for the pin!
I have to delete them because I run out of OneDrive storage. 💀
@@SarmadTechLab Why do you have to sync them with OneDrive?
I have a collection of them on an external hard drive. That and libraries of programs, drivers and utilities for most of them too.
@@SarmadTechLab I also remember putting an entire VDI (Virtual Disk Image) on my OneDrive. RIP my OneDrive storage
I fell asleep watching and woke up with the video not finished yet, you spent so much time to make an entire 1 hour video about scaling. That’s some insane dedication for 50k views. The work and time put into making this should be rewarded better.
What part of the video did you fall asleep, and what part did you wake up?
😂😂😂
Fun fact: The classic shutdown dialogue exists, even in Windows 11. All you have to do to bring it up is press Alt+F4 while on the desktop.
1:16:44
I've been using that as the default way of shutting down/signing out on my Windows 10 PC
The logo at the top of the classic shutdown dialogue doesn't scale past 150%.
@@World_of_OSes This might be because it's an unscalable picture that gets blurry at 200% and higher looking worse when scaled.
@@innerdiscarchivesame. It's good to close all your programs quickly and almost immideately after be able to bring the classic prompt to shut it down
39:52 Here's why there's no date on 400% and 500%: The taskbar's height is dependent on 2 things, the base height done by explorer.exe, and the ContentMargins from the msstyles. For the large taskbar, the base height is 32px, while ContentMargins add 4px at the top and 4px at the bottom, so it becomes 40px tall. Most ContentMargins do not scale, so on 500% the height will be 168px (160px base height + 4px top ContentMargins + 4px bottom ContentMargins). Small taskbar is worse as its base height is only 16px, while having 7px of top and bottom ContentMargins, which make it 30px tall. On 500% scaling, the small taskbar is only 94px tall. That's around 35% shorter than how it should be! However, this bug has been fixed in Windows 10. The exact same thing was the reason why the spacing between the menu items didn't scale from Windows Vista to 10.
nerd alert haha
@@hw2007 well I just wanted to give an explanation for why that happened.
If if I'm understanding this right, the taskbar eventually becomes too large (or small) to display the current date?
@@Hijiri_MIRACHION Too small
@@winexperiments Ah, thank you. The poor Start Button also looks squished in that taskbar... no wonder the calendar gave up.
Great video! I can only imagine the amount of time and effort put into this. Keep it up!
I'd rather suffer with 100% scaling than with awful Windows scaling
4K at 100% scale: ruclips.net/video/whlqY_Jelnw/видео.html
Better getting displays in "natural" resolutions (e.g. 1366x768 at 100% would be suitable for 14-inch laptop).
@@ThatRandomToast But then it wouldn't look as crisp.
@@ThatRandomToast i think windows (like 10 and 11) are meant for 1080p but if you're saying like a chromebook then yeah no those are fine with 768p
@@i-dont-know-a-name Windows is still perfectly usable with 1366x768.
did i see correcly or wrong? this mad lad is still using Windows 8.1 as their primary OS
Literally me 2 months ago, but amd doesnt support windows 8.1 💀
use it too on my old comp and new comp, their default windows 10 is simply slow
Could as well be Server 2012 /R2. Still a great, rock-solid OS with top-notch performance on older hardware.
@@simmcho windows server versions ends at october but others end some month below october
where excatly have you seen it
0:42 typo!!!!!!!!
WHY ISNT THIS DUDES COMMENT LIKED
now liked**@@TheJesseYouKnow
😯 🤔 💡 🚪 ◀️
Chnaging
@@TheJesseYouKnowbecause no one cares about a typo
Windows 11 elements scale so nicely because they've been completely rewritten with XAML. Also every icon on new system programs is now an SVG and since it's flat design (there is pretty much no details besides opacity and blurring) everything "just works".
28:36 As you said in an old video, the security options and the logon screen both run under the SYSTEM user, but DPI scaling only applies to the user account only, not the main computer itself.
22:28 In Windows 7, the Security Options takes the DPI scale of the user.
22:11 basically, the reason why the drive icon is different is because the icon has a low resolution, and resizing it makes it more blurry or pixelated, so it uses a high quality but different icon.
Windows 10 could be the first version where Microsoft took the DPI scaling seriously
DWM Scaling seems to be working great. Unlike in Windows XP to 7 (And Windows 8's Desktop UI) where they just get crushed up, Unlike in Windows 10, 11, and Windows 8's metro UI, they use better DWM Scaling, which makes the UI the same as it was as using 100%
Do not unmute. Video is good, just don't unmute. 😂😂
It's only the 1st track that's really bad. Some of the rest of the tracks aren't as bad.
@@World_of_OSesTrack 1 is normal for me
@@World_of_OSes huh elektronomia is good his tracks are not bad
@@Emayeahyea elektronomia is also good for me it's cool
@@ShitpostGratuiti MIO DIO SHITPOST GRATUITI WOOOOO CIAOOOOOO
Loving how 20% breaks everything not because of how small it is, but how terrible its scalling is.
One thing you forgot to mention when it comes to Windows 10+ scaling: when you set a custom Scaling %, it will apply to all screens. Only the scaling slider/drop-down that Windows provides is on a per-screen basis unfortunately
This is literally the beginning of the development of Windows XP 2024 Edition
I think we know now where Microsoft did take the GUI of Windows 8, 8.1 and 10
4:39 out of everything, calculator looks the best.
1:05:15 the title is sometimes "Solitaire collection" and sometimes "Microsoft solitaire collection"
1:12:40 took them 20 years to put the warning that it can be difficult to go back
1:05:15 The version released in around late 2021 is titled "Solitaire Collection"
@@ThatRandomToast Why did the title change from screenshot to screenshot?
Great video! I work on making and modifying msstyles, so I pretty much know all of this.
Also, XP on 125% use the titlebar buttons that are intended to be used on 150%, which shows how poor the DPI implementation is in XP. The only way you can get the real 125% titlebar buttons is to decrease the titlebar size by 1 while on 125%.
Windows 7 and 8.x however, do have 200% titlebar buttons in their msstyles, but they are unused? I'm pretty sure there are 200% scale titlebar buttons in those msstyles, but I haven't scaled these OSes to 200% before.
Yes, the caption buttons in Windows XP did seem a bit big at 125% scale, and the right size at 150%. I was surprised that even in Windows 11 the caption buttons for Win32 still don't scale above 200% when most of the UI scales OK now up to 400%, and even the menu bar spacing is fixed. In UWP apps the caption buttons scale to 400%.
@@World_of_OSes Another victim of this is the early Windows 8 builds, the buttons are 125% scaled on 100%.
@@winexperiments ruclips.net/video/Kq2hIB0lN1g/видео.html
@@World_of_OSes You should look at how Microsoft makes msstyles. It is pretty much why Win32 UI scaling sucks.
First off, it uses images. For the ones used as backgrounds (buttons, combo boxes, menus, etc) they only use one image for all DPI levels. That's why most of the UI has a 1px outline regardless the DPI.
The "3D theme" looking messed up in Vista and 7 is because Microsoft specified the sizing margins (which specifies the parts that should not be stretched) to also include the glow in the images for these UI elements, if they have only specified the outline, the "3D theme" would've looked normal on higher DPI.
DWM titlebar buttons do not scale in the same ways as other scaled UI controls (such as checkboxes, combobox glyphs, and even the Basic theme's titlebar buttons), as DWM titlebar buttons use proprietary parts, for 100, 125, 150, and 200% respectively, while anything else that's scaled in the msstyles uses MINDPI (it has 7 increments in Windows 10, previously 5 in Windows 8.1 and 3 in Windows 8 and 7), and these increments can even be modified to any DPI (default is 100, 125, 150, 200, 250, 300, and 400%), so if you disable DWM on a modern Windows 10 or Windows 11, the buttons would scale to 400%. Nothing funnier than this.
@@winexperiments
25:03 In Windows 7 the non-DWM caption buttons still only scale up to 150%.
15:15 But the Classic caption buttons scale all the way up to 500%.
46:54 In Windows 8.1 the non-DWM caption buttons scale at 125%, but not at 150%, but they do again at 200% and 250%, but not at 400% or 500%.
57:10 In Windows 10 the non-DWM caption buttons scale all the way up to 400%.
In Longhorn pre-reset you can also change to lower DPIs such as 75% and 20%.
I also wonder if editing registry on windows vista/7 would work to set a lower dpi, as theres an option for windows xp scalling. And i wonder if windows 8 and above still have the option but hidden, so you can scale on those aswell.
Was wondering about this stuff for ages!!
Thank you for presentation, you worked hard.
What do you think of the length of this video?
1 hour 💀
I watched the whole hour without noticing until it was mentioned
Felt like a 20 minute video!
Kinda too long
@@SOTP. I had a lot of information to pack into it, so I couldn't have really made it much shorter.
1:17:59
I don't know why, but I watch this video with big enthusiasm, it's so interesting for me.
damn display scaling used to be so bad
500% looks like a broken modern version of the xp theme
Windows XP gets slowly turned into windows 10 as you increase the DPI
here before the 1 year mark i guess
Next: What happens if you press Win+Tab in different Windows versions (Edit: oh, you already did that 7 months ago)
How did you add the "English - Music" subtitle?
ruclips.net/video/TfVnNaAYU5Y/видео.html
Wow, I never knew that if you scale up windows XP to 500%, then it makes it pretty much unusable that’s crazy to me
20% is way worse.
Windows XP with 500% scaling hurts to look at on a physical level.
20% somehow manages to be worse.
Windows Vista and Windows 10 made the biggest improvements.
Windows XP is best for DPI if it comes to legacy versions but Windows 8.1, Windows 10 And Windows 11 will be good on DPI for Modern versions
I'm near sighted (wearing glasses) and my laptop has a 15.6 inch 1920x1080 screen. I use 125% scaling, which by default makes everything blurry, however I found a patch online that actually makes it look really good and sharp
Hey pal, I have some problem, pls send patch online name and link down load. Thank u so much
I use 207% scaling on that screen hehe:)
2:07 Royale / metro theme unlocked!
21:54: So ... they fixed the gadgets picker in Win7, but broke all the gadgets. I laughed.
Also, they're not the "wrong" icons, they just made more detailed icons that get used when possible.
i don't even want to BEGIN to know how long this video took to make
2 months.
15:58 got teleported to sethc video
i wonder why all os elements like icons and menus couldn't be vector graphics instead of bitmaps it would make scalling much easier
Because it's harder to make vector graphics pixel perfect though Microsoft did it for text with TrueType
@@jhgvvetyjj6589most of the bitnap fonts are still hand made bitmaps. its very hard to make pixel perfect text look good on any resolution
@@jhgvvetyjj6589pixel perfect True type?! Windows has pixelated fonts with different color pixels on all settings in many menus.
18:36 Maybe, in Windows Vista also like that, Aero Theme doesn't work above 3840x2400.
I couldn't even get Windows Vista to go above 3840x2400 at all. So I didn't even show above 300% for Vista.
Now I understand how Microsoft made the UI for Windows 8, 8.1 and 10....The XP DPI scaling :))
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2010 kids Love this song, right?
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What are you going to do when Windows 8.1 loses support?
My solution to Windows DPI scaling problems: don’t get a screen that has a resolution higher than 1080p, and set scaling to 100%
E.g. for laptop, only get one in 1366x768 (common for 14 to 15.6 inches laptops)
@@ThatRandomToast 1600x900 is probably the sweet spot for 14 inch laptops. 1920x1080 is good on 17 inch laptops and monitors up to 24 inch. 2560x1440 can be good for 27 inch monitors and 32 inch monitors, but I don't like screens that big anyway because of the head movement. To use 4K at 100% scale you would need a 40 inch monitor which would just be ridiculous. I quite like 1920x1200 on a 24 inch monitor because it has a bit more vertical space, the pixel density is low enough that I can easily use it at 100% scale and the size is small enough that I can see the entire screen without having to make significant head movements.
1920x1080 at 100% probably is still a bit small on a 14 inch laptop, 1366x768 is just not enough real-estate to do anything with, 1600x900 is the happy middle-ground for a 14 inch laptop.
DPI scaling is actually not too bad in modern versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11, as long as you have it at exactly 200%, so that non-DPI-aware apps can get nearest-neighbour scaled. 125% and 150% are bad because they make non-DPI-aware apps look blurry. So you need a screen that is either low enough to use at 100% (90 - 120 DPI), or high enough to use at 200% (180 - 240 DPI), DPIs between 120 and 180 are bad because they are too high to use at 100%, but too low to use at 200%.
@@ThatRandomToast I personally would consider the sweet spot for 100% 1080p to be around 14 inch, while 15.6 inch really need some sort of custom resolution display, something between 1080p and 1440p. Of course for casual use it isn't that optimal, but Windows laptop is mostly for work anyway.
This video took me a very long time to make.
hi
I can see that just by watching it
Restart
Change scaling
Restart
Change scaling
Restart
and was also very boring probably
1:14:42 -- Interestingly enough, 125% is the only scale resolution that features smaller navigation pane items' padding.
Seems like a bug but I hope they WON'T fix it, as it makes it look better for me
You can get that at any scale by going to View and then enabling Compact view.
@@World_of_OSes It does affect the explorer items size as well, though, unlike the default view on 125%
this upscale mod makes nice graphics but it makes your work harder
Windows xp just turn in windows 8
i rather die then watch the video with sound
i got pinned 😮
Some of the rest of the tracks aren't as bad. It's only the 1st track that's really bad. Maybe I should have chosen a different 1st track... I think that's turned a few viewers away.
@@World_of_OSes Some tracks you could try:
- Timecrawler 82 - Mt. Fuji
- Neon.Deflector - Star Dreamer
- EVA - 失望した
- Stevia Sphere - ししおどし
- Jeremy Blake - Pixelated Autumn Leaves
- Jeremy Blake - Into the Sky
- Verified Picasso - Asleep
I use an earphone and even noticed many tracks you used since the rebranding to World of OSes are very intense.
@@ThatRandomToast Do you think that the more gentle tracks are better than the ones with a loud bass beat?
@@World_of_OSes Yes. Also, you should consider using an instant messaging service such as Discord for convenient talks.
God tier music
Was there any particular track(s) that were God tier or were all of them God tier?
0:00:00 - Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release]
0:03:56 - HurricaneTurtle - Stargate [Synthwave] from Royalty Free Planet
0:09:22 - Kevin MacLeod - Cut Trance
0:13:02 - Space Age Hustle - Squadda B
0:14:52 - Kevin MacLeod - Killing Time
0:18:16 - Timecrawler 82 - Phantasia
0:22:25 - Andromedik - With Me [NCS Release]
0:26:14 - Tobu - Candyland [NCS Release]
0:29:32 - Approaching Nirvana - Keystone (Original)
0:33:06 - LFZ - Popsicle [NCS Release]
0:37:31 - Punch Deck - Neon Underworld
0:45:15 - Kevin MacLeod - The Ice Giants
0:42:29 - Vladmsorensen - Titan [Synthwave] from Royalty Free Planet
0:46:48 - Approaching Nirvana - Even While
0:50:35 - Pulsar Glitch - OVERCLOCK
0:55:54 - Jay Jen and Luminoiz - Sunlight
0:58:20 - Natural Light - Chris Haugen
1:02:20 - Sometime When You fall, You Fly
1:04:51 - Kevin MacLeod - Newer Wave
1:07:45 - Kevin MacLeod - Pamgaea
1:10:34 - Elektronomia - Magic
1:14:11 - Slashtaq & Wanden - Full Speed Ahead [NCS Release]
1:17:11 - INTRNLCMD - Nightcrawler
@@World_of_OSes 0:03:56
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@@leavemealone95 HurricaneTurtle - Stargate [Synthwave] from Royalty Free Planet
What happens when run command prompt windows 7 with 6400x3600 500% scale
My laptop has 14 inches screen with QHD (2560x1440) resolution. I broke my old 1080p screen, so I decided to upgrade to QHD one since it was cheaper (brighter, and wider color gamut to ARGB) lol. At 100% scaling is just so small, if I need the real estate then I will tolerate it. Normally I use 125% scaling since it should have similar scaling to 1080p@100% so the text looks sharper except that some programs are just blurry. 150% is the scaling when I take off my glasses. higher than that are disgustingly big for me, I really hate it.
You could try using System (Enhanced)
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@@World_of_OSes Thank you, I will try that.
When choosing a display, it is best to get one that is either low enough DPI to use at 100%, or high enough to use at 200%. In-between is bad because it makes the UI too small at 100%, but too big at 200%, so you end up having to go 125% or 150% which causes the non-DPI-aware apps to look blurry.
Why the Resolution for Windows Vista only until 300%, NOT until 500%?
I couldn't get Windows Vista to go above 3840x2400, and 500% scale at 3840x2400 or 3840x2160 would be too big. Most of the Vista UI would look the same Windows 7 anyway.
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@@World_of_OSes Oh I see ...
REQUEST :
How different versions of Windows Beta handle DPI scaling?
What about Linux desktops?
@@World_of_OSes what about Mac and ChromeOS?
I might also do one on how different software handles DPI scaling.
@@World_of_OSes what about phone dpi scaling
why tf r u using windows 8.1
It's faster and light
did you notice that the windows logo on store gets small in windows 10 rtm
The standard Windows XP looks amazing
i am so jealous of how many virtual machines you have and i want them all 😭😭😭
I have only 6 VM at my computer, although I have so few VMs, 4 GB is free on the hard disk. And my processor is old, so it does not support Virtualization Technology
My pc support Virtualization Technology
dear lord you have a lot of virtual machines
Are you sure 1920x1080 is 150% scaled? Windows 10 says that 125% is the recommended scaling.
The recommended display scaling is also tied to your display device.
@@ThatRandomToast 1:01:37
Please respond, what VMware settings do you use?
What VMware settings are you asking about?
@@World_of_OSes the cpu cores, the memory, etc
@@uselesscraftysUsually 2 cores and 4-8GB work really fine for just casual VM setups
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bruh can i get your loadout of ISOs
2:39 With 400 DPI buttons looks like Windows 11
just seeing this before it hits 1 year old
In Windows XP and older, you can set the DPI scale lower than 100% DPI, which its minimum is 25%
I did that at 6:51
@@World_of_OSes Oh, I only watched through 26:50 to the end screen
Actually the minimum is 20%
Considering how terrible XP looked at 25%, I'm not surprised Microsoft scrapped that going forward.
When do you think will Microsoft increase the maximum limit to handle future displays with more than 480dpi (500%)?
1000%
how big is bros machine (it can fit about 50 vms)
24:48 Internet explorer be like:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
QUESTION:
Can we scaling a DPI Resolution in Windows 2000, ME, 98, or 95?
Yes, the feature was added in Windows 95. The dialog looks the same as in Windows XP.
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0:45 *chnaging*
Spelling police be like:
@@World_of_OSes on an hour long video
Goddamn the fonts went upscaled when the scale is large
34:20 I was able to reproduce this in Windows 8.1 on 1366x768. I wonder if the opposite is possible.
How?
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In command prompt properties, bitmap fonts (Raster Fonts) are a fixed size in pixels whereas TrueType fonts scale. (It even recommends TrueType fonts for high DPI displays)
Windows 10 and 11 uses Consolas as its default font on its command prompt whereas Windows 8.1 and older uses Raster Fonts. You can also use the Consolas font in Windows XP to 8.1 and Raster Fonts on Windows 10 and 11.
@@innerdiscarchive Unfortunately Consolas is unusable for a command prompt due to it being badly hinted (it’s one of those fonts that Microsoft ruined to promote ClearType)
@@jhgvvetyjj6589 Do you have any issue on seeing the font?
@@ThatRandomToast The point is that Microsoft deliberately made it worse than it should have been to gain more money.
Of course this is The video that helps me sleep
Windows xp-7 with 250-300 dpi scaling looks like windows 10 skin pack for xp-7
Can you gave me the download link of the 'game maker' thing you used on videos?
drive.google.com/open?id=1o6TN1brJsepl4UV15ghqQ1U3aOzpr-cr
2:08 500% = windows picture edition xp 😂
Windows XP 500% DPI = Flat
49:19 Why does the 1920x1200 monitor have 5 rows of tiles while the 1280x800 one has 4?
On the 1920x1200 monitor, the Metro scale is 140%, on the 1280x800 monitor the Metro scale is 100%. 1920x1200 at 140% is equivalent to 1372x856 at 100%. 1920x1200 at 150% is equivalent to 1280x800 at 100%. The Metro scale can only be 100% or 140%. The desktop scale is 150% which provides the same UI-sizing on both monitors.
@@World_of_OSes Oh, that explains it.
What happens when insert the Windows installation disc and change dpi scaling in windows vista or later
Nothing, xp only asks to get the scalling files
100% DPI in Two Laptops both Acer Aspire from 2012 (1366x768) and HP ProBook from 2013 (1600x900).
My Laptop Acer is connect to TV using HDMI Cable with 1080p Screen, 100% DPI in 1080p running my LG TV 32 inch.
Wow this gotta take long time to make
The impressive part of this is how TrueType allows pixel perfect text at any scale (though ClearType ruins the pixel-perfect property)
You can disable cleartype using tools like Better ClearType Tuner, but some fonts like the default Segoe UI look much much better with subpixel rendering at 100% scaling compared to without, like Windows XP's Tahoma.
@@gammaboost That’s because Microsoft deliberately manipulated the hinting in certain fonts like Segoe UI, Calibri, and Consolas to make the standard mode seem artificially worse and promote the ClearType render mode, in effect ruining Microsoft’s typographical quality.
@@jhgvvetyjj6589 Damn. I wonder if there's a modified version of those fonts with correct hinting.
Has anyone actually watched this video all the way through?
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nice bangers bro got there 💀💀💀💀
Man I miss windows xp, 7, 8 and 8.1 where everything was perfect and fluent. Win 10 is beautiful, but is nightmare. Ram usage never been high, even online games started to lag, start is buggy, lite versions are not completed, they have bugs. I never found perfect lite version without breaking something. I wish they return to nostaliga windowses where everything was beautiful and perfect and had point. Now I need SSD and 1500$+ computer. When I wanted to install NVIDIA drivers yesterday on windows 7, I couldnt. 476 version couldnt install by setup, I had to use device manager, which comes without NVIDIA control panel. Chrome lags, Win 8.1 is ugly, startisback doesnt work properly, fuck.
Intel would be is the best choice. No hassles.
@@ThatRandomToast cpu?
@@deleted9821 Yes and also GPU. No issues with Windows 10 updates.
@@ThatRandomToast Intel CPU graphics can't provide enough performance for running demanding games at high frame rates and high resolutions.
Well make another video in 1920x1080 the difference scale please
Compared to how macOS scales, this seems so poorly thought out
This is how windows looks like in my dreams
windows xp at 500%: prototype windows 10 in 2002
How much did you learn from this video?
Hey, how did you get GameMaker 7 Pro installed? I bought it back in the day but since SoftWrap got shut down I've been unable to activate it.
@@ErdrickHero drive.google.com/open?id=1o6TN1brJsepl4UV15ghqQ1U3aOzpr-cr
On Windows XP everything becomes tiny. >3
Not gonna lie the 6400x3600 windows xp look like an flash game Gerson or windows xp