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Here you can check what version of SwitchResX you are running and if you have installed the assisting modules. SwitchResX will open the SwitchResX Control window with it's vast amount of options and control functions. So heeding Apple's guidelines if you have real work to do is probably a good idea. To access it, simply go to System Preferences and click its icon in the bottom section. One time I made the mistake of launching Mission Control near the end of a busy work day with about 60 Safari tabs running over three windows, about 10 Chrome tabs, a VM, two IDEs running, and an HD Google Hangout, the the laptop beach balled infinitely at the start of the Mission Control animation. Pegged CPU, thermal throttling, high load averages, leading to crashes and beachballs. However as soon as I started to push the Macbook with other cpu-intensive or gpu-intensive tasks, like running an additional low-res monitor via HDMI or running HD video decode in the background, the Macbook fell over hard. Generally if I was just browsing web pages or had only a couple of apps running, it was working fine at 30Hz over mini-displayport.

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I was running my 4k screen off of a mid-2012 Macbook Pro Retina, the top BTO model with discrete graphics. But if you're doing stuff like video editing, or gaming, obviously, it'd probably suck. Which, if you're like me, and you just want to web development ,or run Adobe AI, PS, and ID, the refresh rate may not be your top concern. But apparently it *does* run at 4K natively off a machine that Apple claims does not support it. Recording 4K on the C500 gives still gives an advantage in colour as its 12bit. The C100/300 do scale the 4K image internally and gives the same advantage as scaling down in post (In resolution.

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Now, granted, the guy says his computer strained to keep up with the resolution. But for what its worth I think the A7s specifically does the best job in producing a 1080p internal image, but the 4K scaled down will also be better. 4k HiDPI is working correctly on the 4k monitor that is connected via Thunderbolt. Neither display options in System Preferences or SwitchResX is able to make it work. Unscaled it is working correctly and is a crisp 1440p. To clarify, all scaling is being done on the Mac, as though it was a retina display every other display I've ever used is non-retina, so this is all very new to me. Its blurry, like it is just scaling the resolution selected to 1440p rather than doing HiDPI.

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4K gives 4x the screen real-estate of Full HD, which means 4K on a 24-inch screen.

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I recently read a review of an NEC 4K display and the guy was running it from an Early 2011 MBP (which has a Radeon 6750M card w/ 1GB of VRAM). Mac is an old Mac Pro 3,1 stuck on El Capitan, with an aftermarket 4k-capable GPU, connected over HDMI & working entirely as expected for 1080p & lower content. They use scaled resolution on the monitor, as they are using it as a. Įdit: the 5K iMac is my preference though - amazing display.įWIW, I don't think the Apple docs are correct. Your Mac doesnt let you choose your native screen display Your existing resolutions are either too small, or too big, but not what you really want Just create your resolution, and let.

DisplayPort/thunderbolt gets you 60Hz.Īpple provides a clear document about what Macs can do what with 4K monitors. SwitchResX can let you to create new resolutions or customize existing ones, to get a perfect screen experience. It would be really great if as many users as possible reported this problem so that Apple actually becomes aware of it.HDMI will get you only 30Hz.

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Also this makes great Software like SwitchResX useless to these machines. As other users besides myself report, this does not work on Apple Silicon machines anymore. With the release of macOS Big Sur this was realized by copying the folder /System/Library/Displays to /Library/Displays and making changes there.

This is what Apple calls 'Retina Mode': Video, photos, etc. is scaled to have the same size as with a 1080p display. A bit counter-intuitive this actually means that the display is using the full 4k resolution, but font sizes, window decorations, etc. Would you do some Mac users besides me a favor and also contribute to the following issues Support Tickets, Developer/Community Forums as well use the Feedback Assistant?Īpple gave the user for many years the possibility to apply their own preferences via Display Override / EDID Patches to set RGB Modes and/or HiDPI Settings. You need to set it to 1080p in order to get the scaling. As I mentioned already in my first post, please do not stop to get in contact with apple!