Resolution Scaling Problem

[Diamond Nacho]

So I have a 15" 1920x1080p screen on my laptop. The resolution scale in display settings defaults to 125% because the text is far too small at 100%. However, there is one huge issue with having the screen scale at 125% : many applications auto detect the resolution to be 1536x834 (that happens because 1536x834 * 125% is 1080p). This isn't really a huge problem, it just makes some text look ever so slightly blurry, but when it comes to videos, the video output becomes difficult to look at, compareable to trying to look at a TV or monitor when drunk. I've already done some reseach on this and many people have this problem with my laptop, and the solution is to download the manufacture's version of the Intel display driver. And therein lies the next problem: the driver is unstable as hell and frequently crashes, especially when switching between fullscreen and windowed on certain programs (i.e. games, YouTube, movies, Skype), however, the custom driver does fix the issue with video content. The only thing I can think to do now is go into the BIOS and disable Intel's graphics and let my 960m do all the work instead (if that's actually an option because a lot of latop BIOS's are pretty limited), but I'm not sure that will even fix the scaling issue, and in the unlikely event that it does, it will use more battery on my already crap battery life, as I have to take this laptop to class often. Is there some in-browser extension or maybe background application that could make video content in the regular 1080p format? (Firefox user if that makes any difference) Or maybe a Command-Shell exe or system file that I could mod that would fix this problem? Thanks in advance!

 

Notes:

- Im currently using the latest display driver from Intel's website, not the custom one

- The NVIDIA driver is the latest one from NVIDIA

- all drivers are updated, please don't ask if they are, beacause they are lol

- I'm a 2nd year computer info. systems major so you don't have to oversimplify (;

 

[Diamond Nacho]

Wow, I just figured it out. Intel had the resolution scaling for videos set differently than Windows did and setting it the same fixed it.