Adjusting High DPI setting for sharpest MS image quality (Windows 10/11)
Hey everyone,
Has this topic been covered? If not, it seemed worth mentioning.
In Windows 10 and 11, on higher-resolution displays (such as my 3840x2160), scores in MuseScore 4 don't look as sharp as they can by default. To fix this:
- In a file manager, open the folder containing your MuseScore executable file, which is usually here:
C:\Program Files\MuseScore 4\bin\MuseScore4.exe
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Right-click the .exe file; then in the pop-up menu that appears, click Properties. The MuseScore4.exe Properties dialog box appears.
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On the Compatibility tab, click "Change high DPI settings". The High DPI settings for MuseScore4.exe dialog box appears.
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Select the "Override high DPI scaling behavior" checkbox; then, in the "Scaling performed by" drop-down list, select "Application".
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Click OK > OK.
In these screenshots, the top image is how music appears by default; the lower image is how it appears with this adjustment:
(I've zoomed in here, but even at normal size, the difference is obvious.)
It'd be great if everyone who downloaded the Windows version of MS could know about this, but I don't know if there's a practical way to do that. If the setting is available programmatically, maybe an option like this would be a good idea, so each user could try it?:
□ Improve image quality on high-resolution displays (requires restart)
Or perhaps there's a way for the installer to detect high screen resolutions (anything over 1080p, I imagine?—you could test this) and make the setting itself?
Comments
The website insisted on enlarging these images, for some reason—but if you zoom out so they're about half-size, as they might appear in real life, you can see what a difference it makes.