Desktop->RightClick->screen resolution

The problem will not be solved by me changing the resolution of my display from it's native 3200 x 1800 because that not only doesn't seem to work well with Vegas but it also screws any work flow I might have because everything else I have to multitask with including my desktop becomes huge. Sound Forge has no issues with the resolution...it's something specific to Vegas that prevents it from Scaling it's application gui to my resolution.

I'm not sure I understand this.

For all intents and purposes you could say that what you're dealing with is an extended monitor situation (dual monitors). Can you not simply stretch Vegas as you would if you had dual monitors?

... or undock some windows and put them alongside to fill up your real estate?

Piotr

There's no solution that I can see. This is the only application I have which does not seem to properly scale. I went ahead and upgraded from Vegas 11 to 12 and it still does the same. Sound Forge is fine, menus are as they should be. All Office applications are fine. Every desktop application I have installed is fine. Vegas just does not seem to be coded properly to deal with a high resolution display. I remember reading about similar issues on the Mac side of things when the first latptops featuring "Retina Display" came out. Issues with Photoshop etc. I hope someone from Sony can address this in a future update. As it is, Vegas Pro is not usable at all on the Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 with it's native display resolution of 3200 by 1800.

Stretching the window does not increase the font size or menus....they are unreadably small and the native windows drop menus are partially covered by the vegas gui.

Here is a screen capture which shows a vegas window open nearly filling my desktop with other icons present to show scale.

http://www.hightail.com/download/elNLcXlqQ0MzS3BBSXNUQw

There may be other '4k' screen users out there that can confirm your problem, otherwise it looks like a bug. I doubt whether SCS will fix it.

Might be worth downloading a VP13 trial when it comes available.

G

>>>and the native windows drop menus are partially covered by the vegas gui.

I saw this on my laptop under Windows 8 and found that by checking a box in the Properties box (right click on Vegas icon and then click on "compatibility") named "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" fixed that particular problem.

Additionally, once you get the partially covered menus issue fixed (if that fixes it), then you can also play around with the "Make text and other items larger or smaller" setting in the "Screen Resolution" screen, accessed by right clicking anywhere on the desktop and choosing "Screen Resolution" to fine tune font sizes etc. Hope that does the trick. that screen resolution sounds great if you can get it to a functional state.

Brilliant DDM! Ran the exe troubleshooter with right click and after two different options it tried....the problem is solved.

Thanks!

I have the same issue with my Dell XPS but even after disabling the DDI scaling it doesn't work. Wonder whats wrong!

TVPaint has been dealing with this issue some time now, since TVP has become available on Android tablets, and they are in the process of doubling all elements of their entire interface. Probably Vegas will eventually have to go through this step as well.

Anyone else has same problems as me? OR someone here managed to get XPS15 (2014) working with V11 or V13?

Yeah, I am in the same boat.
It's the only software other than Photoshop that doesn't scale in WIndows 8 (or 8.1) to any usable font size...or display, wave, size.
Sound Forge Pro 11, no problem, my Novel writing software no problems, but VEGAS no the text, fonts menus etc are miniscule.
Macs were the same when the Retina Displays came out.. Photoshop and several other seminal software were extremely problematic and unusable.
This isn't a Windows problem, the software developers from Sony, Adobe etc have to recode for the super high res displays.
If you are traveling alot and Vegas is your main multi track software (like me) it's a total bummer... unless you can happily move from studio to studio with a small external monitor in a lower resolution like HD or even lower.
The alternative is to use an older laptop or something else til SONY solves this.
I am so bummed that i wish I had bought the heavier 15.6 inch Samsung Ativ Book 9 2014 edition instead of the much more portable sexy and delicious PLUS that I have witht the super high resolution......
Am open to keep discussing.. but not sure what to do...
Have been using the Magnifier Tool
BUT that is HORRIBLE for workflow and totally kills my inspiration....
Mark
www.markchan.com

Thanks ddm! I had the same problem with a Samsung 28" 4k running off of a GTX 780 3GB vram. Just went downstairs to that machine and tried your fix, and viola! it worked. Now, if Sony would just get there act together so we can use our GeForce GTX cards (looking at you too nVidia!) and get back to the tasty goodness of rendering with those sweet CUDA cores!

Again, thank you for the fix!

So even after trying ddm's suggestions, is anyone still having problems with the display size of VP12 & VP13 on a 4k laptop display? I can't tell from the replies in this thread if it's ddm's suggestions are a universal fix or only working for some people. I need to know whether to rule 4k displays out for my next laptop.