Change external monitor DPI without changing the resolution (Ventura 13.0.1)

My external monitor has a resolution of 3840x2160, but running it at that resolution makes everything look tiny. Decreasing resolution to 1920x1080 makes everything look blurry.

I would like to increase the DPI setting without having to change the resolution. It is easy to do it on the main retina display:

... but the external display doesn't have that. Is there a way to do that? Perhaps similar to how it is done in Linux?

Thank you!

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 13.0

Posted on Dec 2, 2022 11:05 AM

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Posted on Dec 4, 2022 1:42 PM

Looks like I found a solution, so I am just going to post it here:

If you enable "Show all resolutions", then at the bottom of the list you will see the settings that have "HiDPI" in parenthesis. Using those achieves exactly what I wanted: things look bigger, and all the pixels on the display are being utilized, so everything looks crisp.

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