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Windows 10 screen resolution issues
Posted: 1. Apr 2015, 12:15
by Mais78
I cannot get the right (native) screen resolution option on Macbook Pro. Tried with guest additions but nothing. Anyone knows how to fix this?
thanks
Re: Windows 10 screen resolution issues
Posted: 1. Apr 2015, 12:22
by loukingjr
Right click the VM in the VirtualBoxGUI. Select "Show Log". Save "VBox.log" to a file. Compress that file and attach it to a message here. Make sure the VM is fully shut down beforehand.
Re: Windows 10 screen resolution issues
Posted: 1. Apr 2015, 13:19
by Mais78
Thanks, at the moment I don't have the MBP (Early 2015 model), had to return it. I would like to buy again but want to make sure I can run W10 properly before I do. So do you think this resolution thing is fixable? Have you had the same issue and Are you running W10 fine?
thanks
Re: Windows 10 screen resolution issues
Posted: 1. Apr 2015, 15:53
by loukingjr
Re: Windows 10 screen resolution issues
Posted: 1. Apr 2015, 16:02
by Mais78
Thanks, you will be able to run it for sure, but at non-native resolution it is not really plesant
Re: Windows 10 screen resolution issues
Posted: 1. Apr 2015, 16:19
by loukingjr
There are "tricks" and third party software to get it to look a little better. But running any non-Retina or non-HiDPI software on HiDPI screens will never look exactly the same. If they did, would be no point in having HiDPI screens.
edit: the two main commercial hypervisors support Retina screens btw.
Re: Windows 10 screen resolution issues
Posted: 1. Apr 2015, 16:32
by loukingjr
I forgot something. My Asus Zenbook supports up to 3200x1800 DPI (HiDPI). I just never bothered to run it that way because I didn't want to deal with all the non-HiDPI software that is out there. Maybe I will switch resolutions sometime and see how it looks.
Re: Windows 10 screen resolution issues
Posted: 1. Apr 2015, 17:20
by Mais78
Paralles works very well. And my understanding was that there was a hi res fix for W10 also in Virtualbox.
See the following topic #s in this forum, site does not let me post urls as I am new here
63969
63915
Here, at the bottom, there is also someone that got it to work on Mac but I couldn't
65715
Just replace these number at the end of the link to a discussion