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[mockthedevil]

Hi Guys -

Just wanted to put a plug in for better support for high resolution displays.  For the most part, Media Center 19 plays nice with higher DPI displays but a few areas could use better awareness and support.  The max/min/close buttons, volume control, equalize, shuffle, repeat icons, the options box could work better with font scaling, etc.

I'm using a new Blade 14" @ 3200 x 1800 on Windows 8.1 with 200% font scaling.

Thanks for a great product!

Regards -

Joe

[6233638]

Go to: Tools → Options → Tree & View → Select Font…
Set the font size to 4 or 5. (ideally it would be 4.5, but it won't accept that)
 
Now go to View → Size → 200% (Note: You need to be using Noire or another skin which supports scaling)
 
Quit and restart Media Center.
 
 
Hopefully things will look a lot better now.
 
For some reason Media Center scales up some parts of the UI based on the Windows DPI setting, but not all of them.
It should either be all (automatically set scale to 200%) or nothing really. (let the user set 200% in Media Center)

[mockthedevil]

That helped alot, thanks!  Interesting that you have to type 4 or 5, it isn't in the list box.

- Joe

[6233638]

Well I don't think they would expect anyone to set it that low.
The default font at 100% size in Media Center is 9pt SegoeUI.
 
The issue here is that Windows' 200% setting is being applied to the font size alone, not any other part of the UI.
So with Media Center at 100% size, and Windows at 200% the font size is effectively 18pt even though the rest of the UI is at 100% scale.
 
Setting it to 4/5pt size means that it is doubled to 8/10pt and looks more-or-less correct when scaled up. (and would effectively be drawn at 16/20pt so it's still higher quality than non-retina rendering)