#Switchresx m1 hidpi how to

There isn’t! Being a senior rockstar frontend developing space cowboy, my mind came up with “I can write some browser tool to do this and it will be awesome!”.

#Switchresx m1 hidpi how to

Challange Accepted!Īlright! So there must be some config file somewhere to tell macOS to do what I want it to do!Ĭoming across RehabMans post in the awesome forum about how to actually write a config file to tell macOS what resolutions you wanna have - which includes converting stuff from integer to hex and then combine stuff and convert it to Base64 to finally write a XML file - I thought: “Isn’t there any easy and free way to do this?”. So if you want the easy way out, get SwitchResX or QuickRes and stop reading since it will get very technical from here on. Ok - I have to admit - there are some tools like SwitchResX or QuickRes - which are great - but they cost money and beeing a Geek it is embarassing to admit not beeing able to teach macOS how to do this on your own. There is no such thing to easily achieve HiDPI resolutions on an external Monitor. After some intense clicking around in the monitor settings and some googling the sad reality caught up with me. So coming from Windows and just recently switched to mac I thought: “I will just have to scale the fonts a little like I do on Windows with 150% or so….”. Forcing a HiDPI Resolution on Dell U2515H

Enabling HiDPI will not lead to optimal results, since the monitor should have a 4k or 5k resolution, but it will improve the picture a litte. When I say HiDPI, I mean the pixel-doubling a Retina display does to get this super awesome smooth and sharp picture.