4k scaling question

[harrisonjr98]

Hey all! Upgraded my rig with two new 4k monitors, and I love them. Haven't had any problems with windows or chrome scaling, but some programs I do have issues with. For example, when in-game the steam shift-tab overlay is tiny because it doesn't scale properly. VLC player is tiny because it doesn't scale, and several other programs are too. How do I go about resolving this without making EVERY program bigger?

[Enderman]

Unless the program has a UI scale option, you can't.

[Beskamir]

Some programmers are shit and write nonscalable programs. Unfortunately the best solutions in this case are 1: rewrite/edit the program so it's done right. 2: switch to a lower resolution. 3: get used to the bad scaling. 4: stop using the program and try to find a good alternative. 5: hope that there's some way of forcing it to scale.

 

5 is very tricky and I've gotten it to sort of work for some programs but it's not crisp in any way and I hadn't been able to achieve this in recent memory.

[harrisonjr98]

5 minutes ago, ElfFriend said:

Some programmers are shit and write nonscalable programs. Unfortunately the best solutions in this case are 1: rewrite/edit the program so it's done right. 2: switch to a lower resolution. 3: get used to the bad scaling. 4: stop using the program and try to find a good alternative. 5: hope that there's some way of forcing it to scale.

 

5 is very tricky and I've gotten it to sort of work for some programs but it's not crisp in any way and I hadn't been able to achieve this in recent memory.

I would switch programs if they weren't as essential to me as fucking steam and VLC. hahaha god dammit you would think a *gaming* and a *multimedia* platform would understand the necessity of scaling properly.

[Beskamir]

1 minute ago, harrisonjr98 said:

I would switch programs if they weren't as essential to me as fucking steam and VLC. hahaha god dammit you would think a *gaming* and a *multimedia* platform would understand the necessity of scaling properly.

Agreed... That said, Media Player Classic and GOG seem to have decent scaling. With Steam I think I've forced it to have good scaling at some point but since then it's broken and it's got bad scaling on my desktop laptop's edit is still fine for some reason. Unfortunately I'm not entirely sure how I did that... I think I edited the registry and created a manifest file but when I tried doing that for a java application it didn't work.