What is display scaling?
Also called: DPI scaling, HiDPI
Definition
Display scaling is the Windows setting that makes text and interface elements larger on high-resolution screens without changing the screen’s resolution.
At 150% scaling, a button is drawn with more pixels so it appears the same physical size as on a lower-resolution display. The screen still has all its pixels, and a screen recorder captures all of them.
Higher scaling is good for recordings: interface text is larger relative to the frame, so it stays readable when the video is watched in a small player.
Related terms
- Resolution
- Resolution is the number of pixels in each frame of a video, written as width × height, for example 1920 × 1080.
- 4K
- 4K is a video resolution of 3840 × 2160 pixels, four times the pixels of 1080p.
- Region capture
- Region capture records a rectangle of the screen that you drag out, rather than a whole monitor or a window.