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- #Mac parallels windows 8.1 mac os#
- #Mac parallels windows 8.1 software#
- #Mac parallels windows 8.1 windows 8.1#
I found that other more sophisticated RDP clients do have some kind of "intelligent detection and scaling" feature, though this is far way worse than a real retina support and graphics aren't so crispy as on your host-OSX or in your 200% DPI scaled guest OS running via Parallels/VMWare. ratio of 200% or 150% or else).įor now i can suggest the following workaround to your (and my) issue with the RDP client on retina macbook. Users will be able though to slightly adapt that ratio in Windows Control Panel to their desired "virtual" resolution, e.g. Windows OS would detect and switch automatically in most appropriated mode for high resolution displays (evaluated based on ratio: physical monitor size vs. When Microsoft will implement correct and dynamic high-resolution display detection accompanied by a dynamic and consistent switch into "high resolution mode" (retina mode), then the client software, as RDP, Parallels, VMWare, VBox.wouldn't even need providing setting in turning retina support on or off. Thus, the target Windows OS does what any other windows normally does by default: treat every physical pixel as a pixel.and all becomes incredibly small. So, there's also no way how this RDP client should tell the target Windows OS running within the RDP session "hey.i am on retina display, please increase DPI dynamically to 200%". It has no settings pushing it operating in a high resolution mode (retina). It doesn't support any of logics described above.
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#Mac parallels windows 8.1 windows 8.1#
I heard Microsoft is working hard to improve that in 8.1 onwards and implement some kind of "real" and dynamic support for high resolution and high pixel-density displays, but so far i had no chance in testing windows 8.1 as guest OS or target OS in RDP sessions.Ĭoming back to your RDP connection: The simple RDP client on windows (mstsc.exe) is not intelligent at all in that respect. In any case, this is all Windows can offer for now in versions up to 7. As mentioned, this is not the same as correct retina support and results are not as perfect and proportional as on a host-OSX, but quite acceptable in most of cases and for most of applications running in Windows guests.
#Mac parallels windows 8.1 software#
Enabling this setting in the local virtualization software pushes the guest Windows to dynamically raise the DPI setting to 199-200%. Therefore even Windows-guests running on a macbook via Parallels or VMWare do not scale all elements fully proportionally when so called "Best for Retina" setting is enabled within the virtualization software. However Windows is not consistent in how it applies those high DPI settings to different graphical and textual elements. Increasing DPI to 200% should have same effect as retina support logic in OSX (4:1 pixel translation is equivalent to 200% density). Using DPI settings in control panel one should manually increase manually the DPI % to "tell" windows allocate more physical pixels per inch. Windows versions up to 8.1 are pretty primitive, they take all pixels the hardware gives them and interpret them by default as 1 to 1.
#Mac parallels windows 8.1 mac os#
This is how Mac OS and its apps implement retina support. By that is meant the following: the app/OS has to interpret 4 physical pixels as 1 logical OS pixel, by that rendering normal sized and very nice crispy images and text.
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They both do not scale correctly and, most important - dynamically, retina resolution (or any other high resolution). The problem is with the RDP-Client and also with the Windows OS running within the RDP session (if that is not version 8.1).