I'm running Windows 7 and I want to buy a HiDPI monitor. I'm running a lot of legacy apps (early 2000s and late 90s) and I want to see how will these look on that monitor.
I thought I could emulate this by running Win10 in a VM, max out the resolution of the host and guest, and then upscale the host to 150-175%. My current display is a 100-DPI 17" CRT that can do a 1600x1200 at 60Hz.
The results I got were not good. Some apps looked good, some looked mediocre, and some looked downright horrible! -- including the VBox additions installer. Even an OS window had text that looked blurry. I also noticed that when upscaling from 150% to 175%, the fonts changed a bit. Windows Explorer (the file manager) looked perfect though, which is why I used it as a comparison in some screenshots.
My question is: is my method good? How close is what I got to the real thing? Is this how my apps will look on the HiDPI monitor?
Here is a link to the complete pack of screenshots.
I thought I could emulate this by running Win10 in a VM, max out the resolution of the host and guest, and then upscale the host to 150-175%. My current display is a 100-DPI 17" CRT that can do a 1600x1200 at 60Hz.
The results I got were not good. Some apps looked good, some looked mediocre, and some looked downright horrible! -- including the VBox additions installer. Even an OS window had text that looked blurry. I also noticed that when upscaling from 150% to 175%, the fonts changed a bit. Windows Explorer (the file manager) looked perfect though, which is why I used it as a comparison in some screenshots.
My question is: is my method good? How close is what I got to the real thing? Is this how my apps will look on the HiDPI monitor?
Here is a link to the complete pack of screenshots.