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Display issues with Cadence and 4K monitors

Hello

I have recently switched to a 4K monitor and I have a lot of compatibility issues with Cadence software suite. By default, all the softwares are blurry, so I go to the properties > compatibility > scaling on high DPI settings. For all the softwares I use, the problem is solved by this action. With Cadence softwares... The result is completely random. I have no problems with Allegro 17.2 and Allegro 17.4 (the icons are a bit small, but OK)

OrCAD Capture 17.4 :
All the icons are overlapping themselves.
Text size is normal.
The software is unusable as is.
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Allegro 16.6 :
All icons and texts are incredibly small... I just can't use the software as is. Strangely, the text from the menus isn't affected (text like File, Edit, View...)
By the way I don't have the tbiconsize in my preferences... Don't know why...
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I tried setting the ALLEGRO_HIGH_DPI_ENABLED environment variable which didn't do anything at all. I searched everywhere in the User Pref menus, found nothing.
Does anyone found a workaround ? Is there a config I am missing ?
I find that quite astonishing that the only software that has problems using high resolution display is... a CAD software... :p

Thank you !

0 soll over 3 years ago in reply to excellon1

Hello and sorry for the long delay ! My video card is a PNY NVIDIA Quadro K2200 which has "support for multiple 4K displays" according to its datasheet.

For the update : I have not been able to work this out for now. I am working on a major project on 17.2 so I'll see if I can find a solution after that.
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0 JON123 over 3 years ago in reply to soll

SPB series software does not support 4K well; secondly, the UI is really pleasing; the title is too large; the border is too thick; many companies use laptop external monitors;

A lot of unreasonable design of allegro UI.

orcad doesn't support 4K at all; the font is blurry; the menu bar font is too small; the size cannot be set.

Secondly, there are many small mistakes...
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