Dell P2815Q @ 1440p

Kingy · 2 May 2014 at 10:04

Morning all,

Facing a problem here, as I've just bought a collection of Dell P2815Q monitors for the office. I'd hoped to give the team a bigger desktop to work with, but it seems that the 4K resolution is too high for comfort for some. I'd seen this coming, & for those staff I figured I'd just dial down the resolution to 1440p, which would still be better than a Full HD 24", & not a huge premium over simply buying 1440p monitors.

Trouble is I don't seem to be able to get the P2815Q to output at 1440p. My 16:10 options are 1920*1080 or 2048*1152 or 3840*2160.

The monitors are connected to Haswell NUC via Displayport, & runnning Windows 8.1.1.

Any suggestions on how to achieve a 1440p resolution, or do I either have to live with it or send them back?

Martini1991 · 2 May 2014 at 10:06

Have you tried using the UI scaling in Windows? That should help?

Kingy · 2 May 2014 at 11:16

Martini1991 said:
Have you tried using the UI scaling in Windows? That should help?

I've tried making text smaller or larger, but that doesn't have the desired effect on some of the applications that are running.

Is UI scaling the same thing that I refer to above?

I'm sure I remember being able to set a zoom level as a percentage? Did that die with Windows 8.1 or am I just looking in the wrong place?

Martini1991 · 2 May 2014 at 11:19

Settings -> Control Panel -> Display.

Then move the slide to bigger, apply and restart.

Kingy · 3 May 2014 at 10:04

Martini1991 said:
Settings -> Control Panel -> Display.

Then move the slide to bigger, apply and restart.

This works for Windows, but not for the office database, which apparently doesn't want to scale...

Surely it must be possible for a 2160p monitor to output at 1440p instead?