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ccapra
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I'm using win10.
I have 2 Radeor RX 580 series monitors 3840 x 2160.

There's one program I would use several times/day IF I could only read the text in it. But it's old, and was designed for a smaller screen and on my monitors the text is super-tiny. Too small to be worth trying to work with.

I was hoping I could do screen splitting with DisplayFusion, then set the resolution in ONE of the split screens to be different than in all other split-screens, so that I could just put that program in it's own screen, set to a size I can read. But I can't figure out how to do that & it doesn't seem built to do that.

I can't just set one monitor's resolution to work with the old program, because I need to access a lot of other programs on that same monitor, and they all get too unwieldy. And changing the resolution in display settings every time I want to use that program is too cumbersome - I'd need it for 5 minutes every few hours - it's a pain.

So - now I'm trying to figure out if I could use DisplayFusion to set a custom monitor display size to trigger just when I open or focus on that one program, then put it back to normal when I close the program or focus elsewhere.

Is that possible? Or - does anyone have any other ideas about how to solve my problem?
Aug 2, 2019 (modified Aug 2, 2019)  • #1
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
Unfortunately DisplayFusion can't set a custom resolution for a split or specific program.

However, you might be able to get it to work a bit better if you're on a recent Windows 10 update, you can try the following:

  • Locate the EXE file in File Explorer
  • Right-click it, choose Properties
  • Click the Compatibility tab
  • Click "Change high DPI settings"
  • Try the various options there, one of them may work :)

Hope that helps!
Aug 2, 2019  • #2
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ccapra
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Ok - thanks. I fiddled with the compability settings again & just couldn't make it work out.

What I ended up doing was to use my surface tablet as a 3rd monitor, set the resolution to much lower and just dedicate that to my problem program when I'm at my desk. That sort of solves the problem.
Aug 3, 2019  • #3
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
Ok, glad to hear you were able to find a decent workaround :)
Aug 6, 2019  • #4
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