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Surface Pro, VDJ has a problem with screen resolution

Brand New Surface Pro 128Gb, stock image / Latest Revision of VDJ, Pro Edition, Registered

Problem: Virtual DJ insists on opening of center screen. In addition, when I maximize the window, it opens 2x larger than the resolution, I can not get to the configuration, have to force close program. Actual screen resolution is 1,080 x 1,920 but even with skins like 1024 x 768 VDJ will not scale it up, making the program useless because I can't see everything. Tried all kinds of external skins from 1024x600 all the way up 1280x1024. Nothing works. Traktor Demo scales fine.

It seems as if VDJ is reading the resolution wrong. How can I resolve this??

WirelessDJ
 
Posted Wed 06 Mar 13 @ 7:02 am
Have you tried Ctrl+Alt+Del (or whatever the equivalent is in Win 8) then go to Applications > VirtualDJ right click and select Maximize?

That may force the correct resolution to fit the screen.

Seems like a Windows 8 issue although I don't recall anyone else having experienced this.

Keith
 
maximize makes it worse. it puts it so large you can't see the other half of the program. I hooked up a second monitor just so I could get into config and try various skins. none of them will fill the screen right.

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correction: resolution is 1920 x 1080
 
Spoke with Microsoft support.

HERE IS THE FIX!

in windows 8...right click on desktop
personalize
bottom left
display
change from 150 or 125% to 100%
reboot machine

VDJ sizes correctly with all skins, thank you

WirelessDJ
 
DO NOT use Windows 8 for DJing. It has terrible DPC Latency. Test it yourself if you don't believe me.
 
I had also read that on another forum. My Vaio SE running Windows 7x64 is always well in the green. Never gets above 150, average around 100 which is really excellent.
 
Since I switched my laptop from Vista to 8 it's brought back new life to my machine. Runs like a dream!
 
From the DPC latency checker website:

Windows 8 Compatibility:

The DPC latency utility runs on Windows 8 but does not show correct values. The output suggests that the Windows 8 kernel performs badly and introduces a constant latency of one millisecond which is not the case in practice. DPCs in the Windows 8 kernel behave identical to Windows 7. The utility produces incorrect results because the implementation of kernel timers has changed in Windows 8 which causes a side effect with the measuring algorithm used by the utility. Thesycon is working on a new version of the DPC latency utility and will make it available on this site as soon as it is finished.
 
Surface only runs Windows 8, so I am stuck with it.
 
beatbreaker1 wrote :
Since I switched my laptop from Vista to 8 it's brought back new life to my machine. Runs like a dream!


Thats because Vista is the worst OS Microsoft ever made. Windows 8 have still a long way to go till we can safely tell that is good to use. But for now, it seems ok.
 
Don't like a lot about, but the performance is insanely fast. Like running XP again, my system flies. With a SSD, boots in 7 seconds..

-David
 
beatbreaker1 wrote :
Since I switched my laptop from Vista to 8 it's brought back new life to my machine. Runs like a dream!


Vista... wow that's old and bad. :)
 
WirelessDJ wrote :
Surface only runs Windows 8, so I am stuck with it.


You can download the 8.1 update. That's what I did with my Surface Pro 128GB unit
 


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