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    Angry Resolution issue with ACA 2017 on 4K Laptop Screen

    Hello! Looking for some help. We have loaded ACA 2017 on a Dell Preceision 5500 laptop with a 4K resolution screen. ACA is not displaying correctly. For example, the icons in the layer properties manager dialog box are unreadable, they are so small. However, the text in the command line is huge. The startup dialog box is very tiny as well. I have attached examples. The laptop is running Windows 10, and 2 graphics cards: Intel HD Graphics 530/P520 and nVidia Quadro M1000M. We have unchecked "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" in the ACA shortcut properties.

    Any help or suggestions is very much appreciated.

    I apologize if this is a double posting, I did not see my first post, so this is my second attempt!
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    Default Re: Resolution issue with ACA 2017 on 4K Laptop Screen

    I have used the tips on this webpage to make Autocad usable on a 4k display.

    http://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-a...-displays-fix/

    The start page doesn't display correctly. You have to click the + tab to start a new drawing. Then everything else works much better.

    You basically make a registry entry that can be easily undone:
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide]
    "PreferExternalManifest"=dword:00000001

    To undo registry setting:
    [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide]
    "PreferExternalManifest"=dword:00000001


    The trick is then to place a text file in the folder that your application EXE is located. In my case this is "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2017\Acad.exe". You simply make a blank text file in the "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2017" folder and name it "acad.exe.manifest"

    I then create text files for all other applications that don't scale very well.

    I hope this helps someone.

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    Default Re: Resolution issue with ACA 2017 on 4K Laptop Screen

    My other post is waiting for a moderator to approve.
    Also, maybe this will help.
    http://up.autodesk.com/2017/ACD/Auto...eadme_Enu.html

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    Default Re: Resolution issue with ACA 2017 on 4K Laptop Screen

    Thank you!

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    Default Re: Resolution issue with ACA 2017 on 4K Laptop Screen

    In case the moderator doesn't approve my previous post, I will try again with just the link.

    I have been somewhat successful with this work around with Autocad Archtiecture 2017 and every other application that has display issues.

    http://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-a...-displays-fix/

    The Autocad Start screen doesn't work properly, but I just click the + tab to start a new drawing. Then Everything seams groovy.

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