Matthew Murray

Geoff, Yes, I use Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. The 4K screen is a 28" Asus PB287Q 4K Gaming Monitor, the other a 21.6" Samsung SyncMaster 2253LW. Windows 8/10 don't offer the developer any "better" scaling over Windows 7, but there are improvements to how the OS alerts the program to changes in DPI, and how the developer then chooses to respond to those changes. The OS does a lot behind the scenes from using brute-force doubling of pixels on applications that don't support scaling well (native Win32), to providing the necessary notifications e.g. that an application window is changing between different DPI's, and even giving suggesting window sizes to the application. These are of course hidden to the end user, but allow the application to respond well to the changes. TLDR; - Each application is fully in control of how it displays itself, and the OS does most the grunt work in alerting the program to any changes in DPI. It is important to understand that with FSX the UI does not scale (i believe it's a bitmapped MFC-style app over Win32), but that when the simulator environment is drawn to the screen (to the back-buffer in graphics-speak), it is at the full resolution you choose in the FSX settings. Just as you can resize a windowed FSX, the back buffer will adjust for whatever resolution screen FSX is running on.

Geoff, I have two screens, one 4K 3840x2160 and the other an older 1680x1050 screen. I run FSX/Prepar3D on the 4K with no anti-aliasing. I run ActiveSky Next/2016, Navigraph Charts and Adobe Reader for the manuals without much issue, each program generally adapts to whatever screen it is on. The charts program has a bug when scrolling/moving a zoomed chart on the 4K screen, but isn't an issue on the non-4K screen. The PMDG Ops Centre works correctly. The annoying issue I have is with Adobe Reader, it stays at the 4K scaling, even when on the non-4K monitor. This means the menu bar and toolbar are twice the size, leaving less room for the document. I normally just press F8 to hide the toolbar, and F9 to hide the menu bar. High DPI UI is up to each program to implement, and support is getting better all the time. Older, Win32-style applications will always struggle. I'd still recommend the setup but ultimately would like to get a second 4K screen.

I'd guess that is some sort of cockpit-sharing functionality with the networking aspect handled through the Operations Centre; building on the work done/being done for the PMDG SimCentre. Either way, excited to see the 744 :smile:

That's the trouble with highly anticipated releases; sentences are pulled apart and over analysed. :smile: I didn't think that the beta was over and you guys were holding it back for ***** 'n' giggles.

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Do you have the Activation Service (FlexNet Licensing Service) running in the background? Check via Windows Task Manager. I had a similar problem, and that was the cause.