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    Blurry Screen / scaling issues

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by Zaknafein8, Feb 17, 2015.

  1. Zaknafein8

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    Hello everyone, i just recived my alienware 15 yesterday and i'm having some issues regarding screen scaling and some blurry windows. I've attached two pics that shows what I mean.
    In particoular any reason why traktor won't go in full screen mode? i mean it's full screen but it isn't.
    And what about the blurry windows? Such as device manager and wifi option? even Spotify is blurry
     

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    Do you have the 1080p screen? If so, the scaling of windows might be set at 125% instead of 100% by default, I have the 1080p version and thats how it was on mine.
     
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    Yes, i have the 1080p screen, where do i change this?
    If i go to panel control, personalizing and display i can only choose between small medium and large and it was set to medium if it's what you mean
     
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    That is what I mean. If you set the slider all the way to the left, on the smallest setting possible, then there will be no scaling at all and things like device manager and such should no longer look blurry. Now of course, if you want some scaling then blurry stuff is unavoidable because windows scaling is junk.
     
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