Question / Help OBS control panel zoom level

[maestrobrau]

I have exhausted all google searches that i can think of. Attatched is a photo of what i'm dealing with. None of my other windows programs are having display settings problems.

OBS used to look fine, but now the control panel is small (and practically unusable). even the microphone and sound icons are cut off. I use windows 10. I have tried adjusting the "compatability settings" (checking "disable display scaling on high DPI settings) by right-clicking OBS, I've tried adjusting the windows settings (control panel, appearance,diaplay change the size of items, all that) and nothing seems to make a bit of a difference. i love the program, but I'm really frustrated. Any takers?

 

[maestrobrau]

Also, now when I adjust a window capture, it is woefully wrong. For example, when I delete and redo a window capture (livesplit, in this case) this is what it captures:

I'm pretty sure these issues began at the same time. Maybe they're related?

 

[FerretBomb]

This is caused by having DPI scaling enabled and set to something other than default/100%.
Disable DPI scaling to fix it.

 

[maestrobrau]

This doesn't seem to work. i've right clicked on OBS, properties, compatability, and checked the "disable display scaling on high DPI settings." nothing has changed. I can change the size of all desktop items (custom sizing options) and that makes everything unreadably small, BUT it does "solve" the OBS problem. any setting that makes all text readable results in the above problem for OBS. anything else I can try?

 

[dping]

This doesn't seem to work. i've right clicked on OBS, properties, compatability, and checked the "disable display scaling on high DPI settings." nothing has changed. I can change the size of all desktop items (custom sizing options) and that makes everything unreadably small, BUT it does "solve" the OBS problem. any setting that makes all text readable results in the above problem for OBS. anything else I can try?

that isn't how you fix it. change the dpi scaling in windows.

 

[maestrobrau]

I can change the DPI settings in windows (i've chosen as low as 100% in the custom sizing options), but that makes everything in windows unreadably small. This does solve the problem of having the text too large for the space (as seen above), but now all the text is so small it's barely readable. If i change the windows scaling to an appropriate size, it creates the problem in OBS above. all of the tutorials that mention DPI scaling in windows refer to certain programs being blurry - this is not my problem. below is a screenshot of what happens when i change the scaling in windows. Surely there's something between these two extremes? And if the below screenshot looks correct, let me reiterate that it's absolutely tiny on my screen.

 

[dping]

I can change the DPI settings in windows (i've chosen as low as 100% in the custom sizing options), but that makes everything in windows unreadably small. This does solve the problem of having the text too large for the space (as seen above), but now all the text is so small it's barely readable. If i change the windows scaling to an appropriate size, it creates the problem in OBS above. all of the tutorials that mention DPI scaling in windows refer to certain programs being blurry - this is not my problem. below is a screenshot of what happens when i change the scaling in windows. Surely there's something between these two extremes? And if the below screenshot looks correct, let me reiterate that it's absolutely tiny on my screen.View attachment 11317

the original OBS does not work with dpi scaling. I dont know if this is different in OBS Multiplatform. https://obsproject.com/download#mp

 

[FerretBomb]

No, MP doesn't work with DPI scaling either, at present. No idea if it's slated to be added.

You cannot use Windows DPI scaling with OBS, without running into the visual corruption noted in the original screenshot.

Yes, the 'tiny' screenshot looks correct. If you're using a high pixel density screen and enlarging the DPI scaling to compensate, getting a more standard density second monitor could be a possible temporary fix until/if the DPI scaling compatibility is fixed in OBS-MP (OBS Classic development is virtually ended at this point, outside of existing bugfixes).