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A couple of examples which should be self-explanatory -
Notepad++
Visual Studio
The setup is an XPS13 (3200 x 1800) but the screenshots are from external monitors (2 x Dell U2414H 1920 x 1080) with the laptop display disabled. I have logged out and logged back in. The issue isn't present when running the applications on the laptop screen (again, having re-logged-in) so I believe it may be related to the applications thinking they have to upscale the fonts owing to the native high dpi.
In both applications I have tried adjusting the fonts via preferences, without success.
I'm not sure if there's a hidden setting I may be missing.
Party Ark
Posted 2016-04-19T14:56:36.993
Reputation: 131
have you tried right-clicking the application exe picking "properties" and then changing the "display scaling on high dpi aware" setting to "disable"? – Yorik – 2016-04-19T15:20:07.163
yes, tried that for notepad++.exe : no difference. devenv.exe (for Visual Studio) doesn't have the compatibility tab, but I suspect it wouldn't make any difference. I've also tried Appearance and Personalisation > Display > Change Text Size only - they're all set to 9 point as you'd expect. Thanks for the suggestion. – Party Ark – 2016-04-19T15:28:46.453
1I suspect that the tabs in notepad++ are a DLL plugin, presumably so is the devenv (a shell app) and maybe the DLLs are isolated from compatability... Wild guess – Yorik – 2016-04-19T15:33:03.063