retina mode wrong dimensions #26
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You can't. This is normal and the way how HiDPI works on OSX. This makes HiDPI on OSX look nice but computationally very taxing. |
But when running on the native MacBook display which happens to also have a resolution of 2560×1440. when i use the default HiDPI mode my screenshots and screen recordings have the expected resolution (2560×1440) not 3840×2160 Am I missing something? |
This all depends on the specific resolutions and relations. Using RDM I can set my 4K display to either a normal 4K resolution (nativ, no scaling applied) or a "HiDPI" 4K resolution which then actually renders to 4320x7680 and scales it down to 4K again for displaying. The latter setting produces screenshots in 4320x7680.
Yes. Well, assuming that "max res" is the native resolution. Because the scaling factor in OSX is 2, it allows you to "run" displays at twice the native resolution. That's the reason I can set the resolution for my 4K display to 4320x7680 despite this not making much sense. But this only means that OSX renders to 4320x7680. It scales the image down to the display's respective native resolution afterwards. (* for the sake of simplification we assume 4K = 2 * FullHD, so actually UltraHD) |
Been a while. so you are saying that macOS has a scaling factor of x2 and it cannot be changed to be 1.5 for example |
How did you test this? My MBP's internal screen works just like my external 4K display. |
I have a 2560 x 1440 Dell external monitor.
when I select a retina mode (ex: 1920x1080 ⚡️) from the RDM menu, everything looks sharp and dow scaled to 1080p but when I take a screenshot or a screen recording I realised that the resolution is actually 3840 × 2160 instead of 2560 x 1440!
How can I solve this?
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