Okay, so I got a new monitor which supports at max 1920x1080, so I excitedly bumped it up.
But now I have run into a few graphic nuisances that make it irritating to use.
The main one being, everything on the screen is EXTREMELY small. I guess the high pixel rate kind of smashes everything down and makes it appear that it is physically smaller.
I'm not sure if you would be able to notice my problem through a screenshot, since your resolution is probably different, you would be seeing a different scale size then I.
but if you can compare the taskbar fonts and the desktop icons, to the font in the browser, and then take into acount the size of the whole screen, you might see what I am talking about.
Yes, thankfully, Windows has some settings to counter-act this, in: Display Properties > Appearance > Advanced
But it doesn't let you change that much. The taskbar font (barely readable), taskbar icons/time, and start menu window width/height are stuck being small.
Also other areas here and there that I notice are graphically too small.
Has anyone run into this when using higher resolutions?
You would think they would make their OS more graphically compatible with different resolutions..
I'm not running windows XP on this machine, but I do recall an option to "hide modes this monitor can not display" and then selecting the highest resolution one (should be the "recommended" one, even if its not said.