Usable Windows 7 Retina Display Resolution?

After two hours finally, I solve this problem

got to VmFusion setting

1. click Display

2. Uncheck use full resolution for retina display

I hope it helps...

Try to use 2880x1800 with display scaling 150% 🙂

I have been frustrated for the past 3 days on this. I have experianced the exact same issue. All other resolutions loose the crisp reason I purchased a retina display in the first place.

And while yes windows 7 has a DPI scaler, and 150% looks ok, it's still too small. You can go up to 200% but at this point it starts getting blurry again and also the text won't fit inside everything often time I'll see pop up windows to put passwords in and the text wrap will start forcing the insert feild off the small window.

I just hope someone releases a driver update soon. this and the scrolling lag in web browsers are almost a deal breaker for me. Very close to a return.

I've just bought a rMBP 13, installed Boot Camp and found that the full 2880 with 150% DPI causes problems with some programs and the incorrect scaling.

I tried a few things and eventually got it down to the following:

Set the resolution to 1920 x 1200

Set the scaling to 100% DPI

Run the ClearType setup and configure the screen.

I've found that i now have enough realestate to be able to code in .NET/SQL, the icons are small enough to be unobtrusive and the text is sharp and readable.

This also fixed the scaling issues on some software (e.g. SQL Management Studio and Remote Desktop Connection Manager).

I do wear glasses, but haven't tried it with my contact in yet.

Hope this helps

Dear all,

2880*1800 is very high resolution for Windows applications, especially when I use my mbp retina with bootcamp I need a middle resolution with clear vision. So I focused on NVIDIA since Windows' predefined resolutions is not very satisfactory.

From NVIDIA Control Panel I have created a custom resolution which is exactly 3/4 ratio of 2880*1800.

Which is 2160*1350 and I feel comfortable with this resolution, hope it helps..

Best Regards,

Ergin Ozturk

always nateive or modulus 2 resolutions

modulus 2 mean resolutions where you can device the resolution without getting a remainder

so

2880*1800 -> 1440*900 -> 720 * 450 and so ...

After much tinkering around. I found the best [custom] resolution. It is 2160x1350 and "make text and other items larger" setting at 150% ... This is found by right clicking on your desktop

-> Screen Resolution

-> "Make Text and other items larger or smaller"

-> "Larger-150%" ->Apply.

You will have to then log out and back in to see the changes..

The custom resolution is created in the NVIDIA Control Panel:

->right click on desktop screen

->NVIDIA Control Panel

->select "Change Resolution" under the "Display" tab (left side bar)

->select "Customize..."

->select "Create Custom Resolution..." on the bottom of the screen.

->Change on the Horizontal pixels (2160) & Vertical Lines (1350)

->Click test and then accept the changes

I found that this was the best SR as it did not distort images and was elements were not too small or big. Along with this, you will notice, that elements remain as sharp as the native 2880x1800 SR.

Please share and I hope this helps!

I like to run mine at 2880x1800 (native resolution) with Windows text scaling at exactly 199%.

At these settings, everything looks crisp, and the aspect ratio is correct; it feels like "Retina" mode for Windows. If you set the text scaling to 200%, this triggers a "large type" mode where the mouse cursor and other things suddenly get much larger, which feels clumsy to me when viewed on a Retina laptop display. But at 199%, the fonts seem to "round up" and look crisp and proportional, and none of the large UI elements feel stretched for scaling reasons (though you'll see plenty of apps where things are super-tiny, maybe because they're not accounting for text scaling). This feels like how I want Windows to behave on small hi-resolution displays.

IIRC, I learned this trick from VMware Fusion, which sets the text scaling this way if you let it "automatically adjust display preferences" in guest VMs.

The big downside is that, at least for me with my Mid 2014 MacBook Pro with discrete graphics, it can only do "high color" and not "true color" when running at full resolution. Isolines in images with color gradients are visible. Doesn't cause me any problems because I use this machine for development and text editing, but would be a concern if you were doing graphics work or gaming.