Dual Monitors with different UI DPI Settings? (4K Cintiq as second screen)

[swalsch]

Hi,

I have a dual monitor Setup consisting of

1) a fairly large, non-high-dpi main screen and

2) a wacom cintiq pro 16 (a 16" 4K Display, thereby very high-dpi).

I'm on Windows 10.

I have AE windows on both screens, but the UI doesnt scale up on the cintiq, leaving me with microscopic interface elements. Obviously I wouldn't want a app-wide scale up since my main monitor looks just fine. My current solution is to scale the cintiq up to 200% using the build in windows 10 UI scaling options, but that also scales the composition viewports content, footage window etc.

So I end up with readable UI but a composition viewport that's not showing a 1:1 representation of the final image (it's scaled by a factor of 2 just like the UI)

Is there a solution for me to see the high-dpi interface on one monitor only?

How can I achieve readable Interface AND an unscaled, 1:1 viewport?

Any helpful tips are greatly appreciated

Cheers

Stephan

[Mylenium · Accepted solution]

Short and simple: No. The apps will always adapt to the resolution settings of the primary display device, which obviously your Cintiq is not. You have to switch things around or buy a suitable second monitor.

Mylenium

[swalsch]

Thanks man, even though that's obviously not what I wanted to hear

How does the app determine which UI to use? Can I force the high-dpi UI on all monitors somehow?

Cheers

[AndrewMcD]

You have to set your primary monitor in Windows 10 display settings to whichever monitor has the correct scaling you want the Adobe apps to start with.

[AndrewMcD]

The correct answer, but I do feel that Adobe could fix this situation. I use other apps that have no problem switching scaling between monitors of different resolutions on Windows 10. I'm sure it's not a trivial fix. I'm also sure that Adobe is making a ton of money off the new subscription enslavement we've all bought into and could afford to fix bugs like this. It IS a bug.