Disable DPI Scaling Keeps Enabling Itself

[Frogster8]

Hello,

On two games I've tried so far (Witcher 3, Dead Island DE) every time I launch them I have issues, whether it is screen tearing even WITH v-sync on OR with Dead Island its zoomed in really close so I can only see 1/4 of the screen.

I've noticed every time I un-check the box "Disable Display Scaling...", I click OK, I open it again to check it IS un-checked and it is. Then if I launch these games, they enable it again. I literally can't stop it from happening and its starting to get very frustrated.

 

[James Mason]

Where are you changing that setting?

What GPU do you have?

In Nvidia Control Panel (Nvidia GPUs), under the Display > Adjust Desktop Size and Position tab, there's a options for changing display scaling. And there's a checkbox for "Overright the scaling mode set by games and programs."

 

[Frogster8]

Where are you changing that setting?

What GPU do you have?

In Nvidia Control Panel (Nvidia GPUs), under the Display > Adjust Desktop Size and Position tab, there's a options for changing display scaling. And there's a checkbox for "Overright the scaling mode set by games and programs."

I'm changing it on the exe's. In the compatibility tab.

I'll take a look into that thanks, but I would still like to know why each game I launch is re-checking that box. I should be able to leave it unchecked, I never had this problem before and I recently bought a new SSD and reinstalled Windows 10 suddenly I can't even get an exe to stop checking its own compatibility boxes.

 

[James Mason]

It's probably because your GPU is overriding what you set in the .exes is why.

Also, are you sure your hardware is strong enough to run the games you're trying to run?

 

[Frogster8]

I've tried setting the GPU to perform no scaling and to for it to perform scaling, both do the same thing and every time I uncheck that box and launch the game it re-checks itself. Also I've got a 780ti, i7 6700k and 16gb RAM and it does this on both Witcher 3 and Dead Island DE.

The box just won't stay unchecked, every single time I launch one of these games it re-checks the box and causes me issues in the game. I've tried for hours now but nothing.

 

[James Mason]

I've tried setting the GPU to perform no scaling and to for it to perform scaling, both do the same thing and every time I uncheck that box and launch the game it re-checks itself. Also I've got a 780ti, i7 6700k and 16gb RAM and it does this on both Witcher 3 and Dead Island DE.

The box just won't stay unchecked, every single time I launch one of these games it re-checks the box and causes me issues in the game. I've tried for hours now but nothing.

Err, how do you know that box has anything to do with the problem you're experiencing?

What monitor do you have? That's most likely what's causing any screen tearing.

If its not showing the right display info.... Uhh it's definitely the scaling settings on the GPU... mmm

cleaning and updating the drivers may help.

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download