UI Scaling Issues on Microsoft Surface Book

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afiore
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UI Scaling Issues on Microsoft Surface Book

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When I open PowerShell Studio 2017 on my Microsoft Surface Book display, all of the menus and toolbars are displayed in an extremely small font. Conversely, when I am plugged into my Surface doc and using external monitors, the application displays with huge fonts. The display scaling within Windows is set to 100% for the Surface display and 200% for the external monitors. I do not have this issue with any other application. Additional system specs are below.

Microsoft Surface Book
Windows 10 Enterprise, 64-bit
PowerShell Studio 2017 Version: 5.4.141.0

Thanks for the help.
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Please specify the exact version and hardware/model of your surface book and its OS.
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Re: UI Scaling Issues on Microsoft Surface Book

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Alexander Riedel wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2017 10:32 am Please specify the exact version and hardware/model of your surface book and its OS.
OS Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise
Version: 10.0.14393 Build 14393
System Model: Surface Book
System Type: x64-based PC
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6600U CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2808 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date: Microsoft Corporation 90.1380.768, 11/4/2016
Embedded Controller Version: 255.255
Hardware Abstraction Layer: Version = "10.0.14393.206"
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Re: UI Scaling Issues on Microsoft Surface Book

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afiore wrote: Wed Jul 12, 2017 7:49 am
Alexander Riedel wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2017 10:32 am Please specify the exact version and hardware/model of your surface book and its OS.
OS Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise
Version: 10.0.14393 Build 14393
System Model: Surface Book
System Type: x64-based PC
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6600U CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2808 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date: Microsoft Corporation 90.1380.768, 11/4/2016
Embedded Controller Version: 255.255
Hardware Abstraction Layer: Version = "10.0.14393.206"
Any update on this?
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We ordered a surface for testing. The current theory is that there is a hiccup in the display drivers for these laptops when you have two or more monitors with different scaling factors.
It is also possible that this is a multi-monitor .NET framework issue with the current framework used. So all in all, we need to replicate this and see what we can do.
It will take a few days, sorry. Feel free to query back on occasion if you don't hear anything.
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Re: UI Scaling Issues on Microsoft Surface Book

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Alexander Riedel wrote: Sat Jul 15, 2017 1:55 pm We ordered a surface for testing. The current theory is that there is a hiccup in the display drivers for these laptops when you have two or more monitors with different scaling factors.
It is also possible that this is a multi-monitor .NET framework issue with the current framework used. So all in all, we need to replicate this and see what we can do.
It will take a few days, sorry. Feel free to query back on occasion if you don't hear anything.
Appreciate the update and you taking the time to look into it.
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I ran a few tests on the Surface and I have not encountered any scaling issues. What resolution do you have on your external monitors?

Note: Setting the font scale to 100% will make the text very small on these high-resolution screens. I recommend using Windows 10's recommended setting (which is 200% on our testing Surface).
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Re: UI Scaling Issues on Microsoft Surface Book

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David,

Thanks for the reply. My current settings are as follows:

Surface screen is set to: 3000x2000 (Recommended) with scaling set to 200% (Recommended)
External Monitors (x2) are set to: 1680x1050 (Recommended) with scaling set to 100% (Recommended)

As noted, these are the recommended settings according to Windows with this particular configuration. Because I am using both the Surface screen, as well as external monitors, using any other combination of scaling doesn’t work.

Thanks, Adam
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Thank you for the information and I will post an update if I'm able to reproduce it.
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