High DPI support for Steam client

[wondroushippo]

The Steam client is so tiny on the Surface Pro! Support for high-DPI displays would be most welcome.

[A-WOL-OWL]

Ok Il be the first Linux person in here no doubt.

HiDPI mode activated ... everything is doubled without bluring ( unlike windows which uses 'scaling' ) Just like Mac, Linux isnt too bad at HiDPi or at least is getting better every month.

is wndows good at anything ???

[S1]

The-Owl님이 먼저 게시:

Ok Il be the first Linux person in here no doubt.

Linux Mint Cinnamon, HiDPI mode activated ... everything is doubled without bluring ( unlike windows which uses 'scaling' ) Just like Mac, Linux isnt too bad at HiDPi or at least is getting better every month.

everything is readable and not blury ( again unlike windows where you also lose screen real estate , is wndows good at anything ??? )

Nope, you're not the first Linux "person" here.

pocient님이 먼저 게시:

Same problem with linux/kde on HiDPI Thinkpad - tiny fonts in steam launcher. Please fix!

Also, if you think OSX (that's the name of the OS that runs on Macs, by the way) has better High DPI support than Windows, then you've obviously never seen what apps look like on Retina Macs, when they don't support High DPI.

It looks just like on Windows, except everything is blurry, including the window decorations, such as the x, -, + buttons and borders.
At least Windows only upscales window contents.

[HFM]

The-Owl님이 먼저 게시:

Ok Il be the first Linux person in here no doubt.

HiDPI mode activated ... everything is doubled without bluring ( unlike windows which uses 'scaling' ) Just like Mac, Linux isnt too bad at HiDPi or at least is getting better every month.

is wndows good at anything ???

Nothing to do with Windows, everything to do with Valve needing to implement the proper API's to support it.

[S1]

Out of curiosity, I decided to install Steam on Ubuntu.

I'm typing this on Ubuntu right now and it's a freaking pain, because all the fonts are so tiny, I can hardly see whether I'm spelling properly or not.

Linux handles this better than Windows? It doesn't handle High DPI at all.
Please go troll somewhere else, @The-Owl.

[⭕⃤ Bohneneintopf]

steam is adding some insignificant fetures such a fps counter (beta), but no highdpi support.
My steam scales at 150% with blurry effect, baaah. Ingame at the steamoverlay nothing, very small, to read other chats you must go in front of 10cm to the monitor.

[N0rdmann]

Just got my U28D590D, allmost all apps look okay and UHD Videos/Gaming is amazing.
Just the Steam client looks messy on 150% DPI, please support DPI scaling Valve

[S1]

N0rdmann님이 먼저 게시:

Just got my U28D590D, allmost all apps look okay and UHD Videos/Gaming is amazing.
Just the Steam client looks messy on 150% DPI, please support DPI scaling Valve :ss13ok:

I've got the same screen.
The worst part isn't even the blurry fonts; it's watching product videos in full screen: impossible.
Not being able to watch videos in fullscreen is like not being able to view screenshots in fullscreen; it just shows a lack of professionalism.

Please Valve, keep implementing pointless feature that most gamers have a perfectly viable alternative for, and show us just how amateurish your main source of revenue, your shop is.

It's times like these where I realise just how much of a monopoly Steam has, and how great it would be if it had any competition. No, Origin and Uplay are (sadly) no competition.

[Lord Drew!]

Count me as "waiting for a fix" too. Steam is blurry as {expletive} on my new XPS 13 :'(

[I made myself]

Same thing here... Steam client doesn't scale itself.
Over a year or 3, when 3K / 4K resolutions will be the norm for regular screens, they'll be forced to implement some kind of responsive/dynamic scaling to fit all the different DPI settings people will have.
Still, it's far from difficult to develop something like the zoom-function we all know from Chrome or any other browser. And let's not forget that the Steam client is a browser at its interface layer. I mean, how hard can it be?

[Afodfrea]

Please support the HighDPI, Valve!

[Dodj33]

i have a 1080p screen but sit further away from my monitor. nearly everything i use scales to 125% on windows and i use 125% zoom on website. big picture mode has too many limitations for my liking and is too big. would like a 'medium picture mode'

[akaSurreal]

+1 High DPI support pleeeeeaaase? Just picked up Dell 4K 24". Price is getting very reasonable now. I paid $481 and it's an amazing monitor. Would be nice to know if Valve is even working on this at all. Anyone know?

[76561198219848932]

yesss

[Muddy Floodwater]

Valve, just say you're working on it please! I thought anything gaming related for PC's implied being on the cutting edge of technology. High density displays are absolutely nothing new. Most of my games are run in a resolution higher than 1080 now, and the client is super hard to see. In fact, the client looks fine in Windows 8.1 with scaling, but once I enter a game, the in-game client is teeny tiny and it is hard to read messages with friends. I know it will be fixed eventually, but I've yet to even see an acknowledgement.

[Triple]

this would help a lot