Macbook Pro 15" Retina Windows 7 HDMI Resolution issue

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Macbook Pro 15" Retina Windows 7 HDMI Resolution issue

Hello,

I have a late 2013 Macbook Pro 15" with Retina display running bootcamp with Windows 7.

I have connected the Macbook to an external HP w2448hc display using HDMI interface.

When booting to OS X 10.9.4, the resolution of the external display is set to 1920x1200 and it looks fine. See picture below:

However, when booting to Windows 7 the resolution on the external display looks lower (although shows up as 1920x1200):

I have another PC which I have connected to the same display with HDMI and the resolution also shows up as 1920x1200. However, in this case the resolution indeed looks as the correct one:

Although not seen very well from the screen shots, both the PC and the Macbook Pro (with Windows 7) show the same resolution in the settings, but the desktop and icons under Macbook Pro (bootcamp) look bigger and with smaller resolution.

Does anyone know how to solve this?

Posted on Jul 11, 2014 2:11 AM

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eleibzon Author

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Jul 11, 2014 10:46 AM in response to eleibzon

No ideas? Anyone? Please?

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Gwindor

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Aug 25, 2014 8:20 AM in response to eleibzon

Hi,

I managed to fix this resolution issue by lowering the color depth to 16bit for the external display. Not exactly sure why was this necessary, maybe for some reason Windows cannot allocate enough video memory for both displays?

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