Even if you don t enable Chrome s built-in hiDPI settings, running Chrome with Disable display scal

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It s not news that the Chrome alix bailey support for high DPI (hiDPI) has been a work in progress for some time, and within the past year or so, the proliferation of high DPI displays on laptops has made the need for good high dpi support even more important. I have messed with a few beta features before, and some of them ended up making Chrome completely unusable. alix bailey
I mostly tolerated alix bailey the lack of high DPI on 13.3 laptop alix bailey screens, but now that I work with a 32 4K desktop display, I can no longer use Chrome without true high DPI support. Unfortunately, alix bailey the old tricks won t work anymore, but fret not there is a solution that does.
For this tutorial, I have used: A Dell 32 4K display A GeForce GTX 760 card (Display Port to Mini-DisplayPort cable) Windows 8.0, then Windows 8.1 Chrome Version 34.0.1847.116 m Solution (Chrome 37.x)
Because it is still under active development, alix bailey the high DPI activation has moved around a few times. Our savvy commenters have pointed our that Chrome 37+ is using a new registry location to ensure that Chrome for both 64bit and 32bit Windows knows that it needs to use HiDPI. According to a blog post on ecomerc.com , the registry locations are:
The post author was kind enough to add a registry ready to go located here ( download link ). As usual, you need to close all Chrome Windows and processes, then restart the browser. Solution (Chrome 35.x)
I know that s it is a pain to edit the registry files, but fortunately, some handy little files are already available on the Chromium site. Fair warning: this is not something that Google alix bailey officially supports, and you run registry commands from an unknown source at your own peril. Follow these links to download the registry files to Enable >hiDPI and to Disable hiDPI support. Once downloaded just double-click on one of the scripts You will get a Windows security warning saying that the scripts could not be verified Click Run The Windows User Account Control will ask you to confirm. Click yes The Registry Editor will issue a warning saying Adding information alix bailey can unintentionally change or delete values and cause components to stop working correctly. If you do not trust the source of this information in [file path], do not add it to the registry. Are you sure you want to continue? Click Yes The registry editor should confirm that the keys and values contained in [file path] have been successfully added to the registry , in this location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\Profile (value = 0 or 1) Close and restart chrome alix bailey HiDPI should be enabled! alix bailey
Even if you don t enable Chrome s built-in hiDPI settings, running Chrome with Disable display scaling on high DPI settings will help make the HTML text not blurry — although they may appear very small.
This doesn’t ”solve” the hiDPI issue, but it prevents the magnification from happening and you can set the default zoom to 130% (or anything) to compensate for the small size. Because the zoom is done on vector element, everything will look neat on a high-dpi screen. Find the Chrome shortcut on your computer, or create one Open its properties Go to the Compatibility Tab Check Disable display scaling on high DPI settings Click on OK or Apply. Close and restart Chrome Optional Go in Chrome’s settings Search “zoom” Set Page Zoom to 150% (or something else) by default Pending problems in hiDPI mode
I m glad to report that the steps above helped alix bailey me setup Chrome with my hiDPI display. However, I have noticed that the Chrome window now sometime refuses to be moved and/or re-sized for some period of time. This has been reported to the developers in this bug report . If you see crazy font spacing, it may be due to this known bug .
If I wait long enough, the freeze magically go away, but this is something that I had never experienced before switching to high DPI mode. In the meanwhile, all HTML functions still work properly and you can read/browse the content.
Keep in mind that hiDPI is still very much under development , so things may change and be unstable until this feature is officially rolled out. If that is of interest, you can follow the code issue tracking #149881 and report bugs . Since the steps showed above don’t seem to work for everyone, reporting issues with your specific configuration may help speed this up.
In the past, you could go to the Chrome settings and enable alix bailey hiDPI from there. Here were the steps, which now no longer work: In Chrome, go to chrome://flags Search HiDPI Support in the settings Make it go from Default to Enabled Restart Chrome
First of all, it may have worked at some point, but a lot of people got burned out when Chrome turned into a garbled